Enjoying a sense of peace one stitch at a time
This week’s theme is “Reflection” and I really liked the way the reflection of the building signage behind the boats lent an abstract feel to this photo (taken at Frankston, Melbourne).
Then I’ll finish with my 2nd choice, which is a classic reflection of boats in the harbour at St Kilda, Melbourne.
This week’s theme is “Together” and I think these photos suit the theme perfectly (even though they’re a bit ‘different’)! These are from a trip to Athens, Greece – I stood and watched these guys for ages, and have loads of shots, but these ones suit the theme the best … I just love how they look as though they’re almost rubbing noses in the second shot, and I adore their symmetry 🙂
This week’s theme is “Blue” and for once I’m totally spoilt for choice ‘cos everything I own is blue, pretty much! I live and breathe “Blue” … but I thought I’d choose just one subject, although a couple of different shots of it – this is from an ‘artistic’ display at the Cranbourne Botanical Gardens in Melbourne.
And if you’re wanting a bit of Blue music to sing along to, I now can’t the Eiffel 65’s “I’m Blue” song out of my head!!! Yep, “I’m Blue!!!” 😀
This week’s theme is “Scary” and it was bl**dy scary having this red-bellied black snake in the house before Christmas last year!!! Thank goodness for the snake catchers! 😀
On a tamer scale we have a Scary bushwalk for kiddies at the Enchanted Maze Gardens:
And lucky last, something I found astonishing and Scary … and downright amazing that this idiot didn’t get washed into the surf! In exceptionally strong winds, this dufus was out on the rocks fishing at Port Macquarie …
Now you see him …
Now you don’t … well, if you look really really hard you can actually just see his fishing rod still …
What a moron!!! And without a doubt very, very Scary!!!
This week’s theme is “Family” so here’s a photo of my own family – Mum and Dad, and my best male friend Frazier in the middle (this was from Dad’s 70th birthday party back home in Auckland … with the lovely backdrop of our lemon tree – geez I miss that lemon tree!):
Here is another one of part of my ‘extended’ family – this is Mum with Auntie Margaret, and in the front is (the late) Grandy … this is my best friend’s Grandmother who adopted me as her own granddaughter growing up. Even though I didn’t grow up in the arms of my own flesh and blood down under, we have adopted family that have more than made up for it … thanks to the Seagers and Smiths for being more of a family than we could have wished for! 😀
This is the ‘other side’ of my family … the loopy side, that thank goodness I don’t take after!! OK, well, maybe sometimes … sorry Mum and Dad, I couldn’t resist it!!! It’s a good job they don’t know how to upload photos, or they’d have their own ammunition against me, but unfortunately I can’t find any right now LOLOL.
This week’s theme is “Lazy” and these are this week’s choices for me …
We have Dad being Lazy on a quiet beach in Fiji:
Then we have our old cat Rio (no longer with us) being Lazy in Auckland:
And this guy just makes me think “Lazy and relaxed” – one of the artworks/sculptures on display at the Enchanted Maze Gardens on the Mornington Peninsula, Melbourne:
This week’s theme is “View” and there are so many “views” that blow me away that I can’t narrow the choice down to one photo.
This view of the Three Sisters at Katoomba really takes my breath away.
If that’s not enough, here’s one view that I could sit and look at every single day! This is Santorini, Greece.
Then, sticking to the Greek theme, we have the island of Naxos … I just adore the history and archaeological monuments you see at every turn. I can sit and look through my Greek photos for hours and not get bored.
And finally, here’s something a bit closer to home … the view from one of the skifields at Wanaka, New Zealand – now if that doesn’t take your breath away, nothing will!! It’s like a view from the top of the world! 😀
This week’s theme is “Road” and I couldn’t make a decision which photo to use, so I’ve got a whole bunch of them! The photography quality isn’t fantastic, especially the Paris ones, as they’re scans of some prints I took years ago with a point and shoot (which Mum very kindly bought with her from home when she last visited) … but I still love ’em 🙂
First up is from one of the views we had driving from Sydney to Coffs Harbour a couple of months ago – we took a detour and drove through the native forest for a while.
Next up are some photos I took years and years ago when I visited Paris for my 2nd time – Paris still remains my all-time favourite city in the world to date. These are views from the Arc de Triomphe.
Finally, this is a photo I’ve used before, and is the winding road up to the Remarkables skifield in Queenstown, New Zealand – it’s a bit hairy when you meet traffic coming the opposite way … the photo doesn’t quite do justice to displaying the steep drops off the side of the roads! It is a very picturesque part of the world, that’s for sure, especially in winter when the alpine peaks are covered in snow 🙂
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