Midweek Moment #22
Welcome back to Midweek Moment 2016! Despite the holidays and the festive atmosphere, we've both been reflective in our choice of photo for the week. I took my photo on our recent trip to Queensland, while on a boat out to the Great Barrier Reef. On land,...
Thank You, 2015
Here's a summary of my 2015—it was a good one ... THE NOVEL As most of you know, my novel, Ida's Children, was shortlisted for the 2015 TAG Hungerford Award. It didn't win, so I sent it off to an agent, who gave me loads...
Midweek Moment #21
Monique and I wish all of our Midweek Moment readers a joyous Christmas and a safe end to 2015. We'll be back in the New Year with more moments and photos. Thank you all for reading, liking, and commenting on these posts, and for enjoying our moments as much...
Midweek Moment #20
This is our twentieth MM—it certainly doesn't feel like that long since we started! Since we've begun, I find I'm noticing more around me, the little details, and I'm always on the lookout for something interesting, or seeing it in a different way. It's also...
An Early Xmas Gift to Myself: Time to Write
For the past few months, I've only been able to snatch brief spells of writing time due to Year Twelve exams, school camps, graduations, speech days, and general running about for the end of the school year. There was...
Midweek Moment #19
Monique and I have been out and about with our cameras this week, photographing things with wings: With school finished for the year, and before the mad rush to Christmas, I've snatched a few days away to write. I’m out of range of internet and mobile (I've...
Midweek Moment #18
Our daughter is the cook in our house, and I’m proud to say she does a much better job of it than her mother. She farewelled a long-time school friend who is returning to Japan this coming weekend, so she made lamingtons, because they’re Australian. She also...
My Week: A Camp, A Concert, & An End Of An Era
I haven't done this for a while, so here's a wee update: 1. Son #1 arrived home yesterday after a twelve-day camp. I know I sound like a soppy mother, but the sight of him in a beanie, sunburnt and unwashed, and smiling at me from the other side of the road...
Midweek Moment #17
I keep returning to flowers as a subject for my photos, because not only do they look pretty, but, unlike birds, they let you get as close as you like, and, unlike dogs, they stay where you put them! Earlier in the week, I found a use for the jars I've...
Midweek Moment #16
This week, Monique and I both found birds—well, birds of a sort ... Yesterday, I happened upon a flock of corellas in a gum tree. They're certainly not unusual to find around here, particularly at this time of year. Normally, my bird photos are rather...
Midweek Moment #15
I love our Moments this week: I decided to experiment with water, so I took my camera to a nearby park and photographed the drink fountain, as you do. The sun was high and the light was bright, but I still had to increase the ISO for a shutter speed fast...
Midweek Moment #14
Please indulge me this week, as there's a story attached to my photo ... As I wrote in a recent blog post, lately I've had cause to think about the things in our house that I cherish. I don't have much that's been passed down through...
Midweek Moment #13
This week, Monique and I have both photographed flowers not necessarily considered beautiful, not in the traditional sense anyway. Mine is of dandelion seeds, and although I snapped a number of more colourful flowers that day (see my Instagram feed), this...
Midweek Moment #12
Midweek Moment has been renamed End-of-week Moment this week! My photo is of a relatively new resident to our garden, a Mandevilla Aloha Red. I fell in love with its colour in the nursery, and it really is a bright spot in our rather bare garden. Why is our...
Midweek Moment #11
We had a taste of the summer at the weekend, with temperatures peaking in the thirties (degrees Celsius, that is). I took my photo at Swanbourne beach just before sunset. I thought it captured the warmth of the day, and gives us a promise of the summer days...