Enjoying a sense of peace one stitch at a time
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 🙂
This week’s theme is “Wild” and there are so many interpretations for this theme I thought I’d choose a couple of different ones.
First up is an aboriginal man who reminds me of an indigenous version of the “Wild Man” of Borneo 😉
Then we have a “wild-eyed” crazy man in the band at The Cuckoo in Melbourne.
And lucky last, we have a “wild ride” Egypt-style … trekking into the Valley of the Kings.
This week’s theme is “String(s)” and even though the photography isn’t great on this one, I thought this photo fitted the theme well. This is a scan of an old photo I took years ago on a visit to Paris on a point and shoot – I love all the ‘strings’ (wires) hanging in symmetry in this shot. I’d love to be able to take this photo again with a better camera and a different angle to crop out the background trees … maybe if I get keen I’ll attack it in Photostop Elements one day 😉
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