Midweek Moment #61: Lake Landscapes
I’m going to start with Monique’s photo this week as not only is it much more exciting than mine, but it was taken in Tasmania, that place which is never far from my heart. Monique and her husband escaped to Tasmania last week for...
Midweek Moment #60: A Floral Feast
Monique and I can’t help ourselves when it comes to flowers, and I hope you’re not bored that we’re bringing more of them today. But they are beautiful, and it is Spring … Long-term readers of this blog know I’m firmly in the...
Cute Photos of Cygnets to Make Your Day
We’re giving Midweek Moment a miss this week as Monique’s been flat-out at work. I thought I’d bring you some photos anyway, in the hope they’ll brighten your day as they did mine. Some weeks I find it hard to squeeze in the time for...
Midweek Moment #59: Saying it With Flowers
We’ve been busy photographing flowers again this week. Well, it is spring, and they are pretty, and they’re also more co-operative than animate wildlife. This orchid in my photo was a gift from a friend. It has pride of place on my kitchen bench, and this...
Midweek Moment #58: Everlastings Everywhere
Everlastings seem to be everywhere at the moment, including a forest of them on a verge just down the street from our house. They cover the whole verge, and have turned a boring streetscape into a floral feast for the eyes. The other day, I tied the dogs up to a...
Some Thoughts on Death and Dying
There’s been a bit of an existential theme happening with my kids lately, and they’ve wanted to talk about death and dying and the universe. My older son wrote a poem about a child’s funeral. He came up and read it to me and,...
Midweek Moment #56 and #57—A 2-for-1 Special!
Life swept Monique and I up in a whirlwind last week so we weren’t able to share a Midweek Moment. My excuses are two book launches, a trip down south, and kid commitments. I’m also trying to make inroads into Novel #2 and preparing my website for an...
Midweek Moment #55: Golden Sunsets
At the lake where I walk, about halfway around the path there’s gap in the fence. If I nip through, there’s a dirt track that takes me past the line of Moreton Bay figs, out through the rushes, and into a marshy area that juts out into the lake. I need my...
Midweek Moment #54—Rain and Shine
Monique and I have chosen shots that indicate the recent weather patterns. It can’t make up its mind—rain to sunshine to rain again. It’s glorious one day—blue sky and warm enough for short sleeves—and the next it’s wild and wet again and we need our winter...
Midweek Moment #53: A Reflection in Rust and a Light in the Dark
We’ve just said goodbye to our French exchange student, Guillaume. Hosting a student from another country forced us to get out and about, and be tourists ourselves. In the three weeks he was here, I’m sure we saw more of our own city than in the previous...