And this is also Word of the Day for me! evanescent adjective soon passing out of sight, memory, or existence; quickly fading or disappearing. moment in time. An Easter sunset captured in Belair, South Australia and one I knew I wouldn’t be seeing again for a while. Evanescent
Wanderlust “a strong desire to travel.” This week I can absolutely relate to David W’ and the surreal sensation of standing on the opposite side of the world to your usual abode. I experienced this 12 years ago when we arrived in Sydney en-route to our new home in Adelaide. After seeing the photos of the […]
H2O, providing hours of fun skimming on the surface. H2O
The weekend is well and truly over and so too the queue of scheduled posts; the pressure is on! Thought I’d share with you just how I’m feeling this week. For just under ten years I was employed by the Royal Agricultural & Horticultural Society of SA (RA&HS). Sounds mighty grand doesn’t it? I was […]
My first photo for this weeks theme, Frame, is of Onkaparinga Gorge taken through a hole in the wall at Samuel’s Gorge Winery, McLaren Vale. My second shot is a section of Brisbane CBD captured at the look out at Kangaroo Point. Frame
For the daily post blogging challenge, I give you the Huntsman! This photograph was taken back in October 2006 and although it’s a scary looking Huntsman, it is a beautiful and rare sight to behold. I’d popped outside to put some rubbish in the dustbin, opened back the lid and this was the surprise waiting […]
It’s been awhile hasn’t it? The Show is over for another year and I just have one more ‘biggy’ before life returns to some form of normality. It’s one of the Royal Adelaide Show’s competitive sections and so big it is an event in its own right and full or what South Australia is famous […]
This week marks the tenth anniversary of our arrival in Adelaide, South Australia as migrants. One thing that was lacking in our new life was the ability to reminisce with our new found friends. We had no ground to go back on and no memories to share. I will always remember the first time that […]
Should my dream reader be someone famous? Someone I aspire to? Or just someone who I want to say cooee, I’m here to. When I first started my blog, I thought I would be imparting words of wisdom and advice to people in the same boat as we were in almost ten years ago, when […]
Autumn in South Australia is different to the ones I remember from my old home in Somerset England. For a start the majority of our trees aren’t deciduous, being mostly gum so we don’t usually see that mass of Autumn colour so prevalent in the northern hemisphere. There are of course areas that do have leaf shedding trees my […]
Waking the Wombat