Sunday, November 7, 2010

Red


I love this umbrella - it was at a Japanese Festival in 2009 in the Treasury Gardens in Melbourne.

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Flowers




My grandson, Mr. Chip, made this wonderful diorama portraying a bee flying nears its hive. VERY Proud of my boy and how he placed a red poppy there for the bee to gather pollen from.

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

stones

Stones are the background to this poignant photo I took in 1998 outside Kensington Palace, London. It was Mother's Day in England and someone had left this card and flowers in memory of Princess Diana.

Monday, November 1, 2010

Fences

I loved this fence when I first saw it in a side street in Fitzroy many years ago - especially the twirly bits on top :-)

Yellow

I've decided to have a go at starting a photo chain to get me going on my photography ...... Canon came up with this idea.... you take one element from a photo and create a link to your next...... my last post re Bello our cat showed some yellow flowers out through the windows.... so I've chosen yellow to link....

This is a photo I took in Hong Kong of a demonstration which was taking place to support those suffering from human rights injustice in China.  The man's jacket is my link :-)

Friday, October 29, 2010

Rest in peace, Bello

Yesterday our white cat died as a result of being hit by a car. It was a shock, of course, and his absence is being keenly felt. When someone dies it is their absence that takes over our thinking....... no Bello waiting at the door when I come home, no Bello telling me it's 5 p.m. and time for dinner, no Bello claiming my chair at the computer...... 

Bello 'belonged' to our whole family - he lived with me from a kitten, then became too aggressive towards my dear old Dad (very territorial about 'his' chair) then became a 'clinic cat' and lived at my son-in-law's practice where he and his nurse cared for him on a daily basis, then he went to live with my daughter and eventually back with me. He was a cheeky boy, an adventurer (which was dangerous as he was deaf) and when approached gently was very loving......


Sunday, October 24, 2010

Family history

About 5 years ago my Dad and I went to visit Nhill in north western Victoria. He was born there in 1917 and spent the first 4 years of his life there. His father and older brothers had helped to make the road that goes through there to Adelaide. His aunties had run the local post-office and his grandparents had lived there on a property. Their house is no longer there, but we went to the site and found some broken china-ware sticking out of the ground. I collected it and have placed it in a frame which is now in my home. The pieces remind me of the many meals the family would have shared in those early days - our own archeological dig!