Annie's Blog

Under the Clocks. Seems to be a popular meeting spot for Melburnians wanting to meet up after traveling in to the city by train. The Yarra River looks pretty fine, in these photos from my sister's camera the weather looks pretty good too...  An interesting exhibit ...a music group...can you see anything missing? A wonderful exterior wall to the Art gallery, looks just as great from the inside... and the trams outside are a great way to get around a walk in the Botanic Gardens seems just the thing to do on a great weather day...with the wonderful agapanthus starting to flower... and this marvellous bell with inscriptions. the canna lilies were looking pretty terrific by the looks..I wonder what other delights there are to come...? We'll have to have a look through this gate next time I think.

How the vegetation changes according to the latitude...beautiful roses down south in Victoria where some of the grand kids go to the local skating rink preparing for their breaking up at the end of the year I can't resist posting photos of the local streets and trees in flower...magnificent. The latest very large and ferocious hailstorm in SE Queensland denuded all the trees at my place, and it has been hard work trying to clean up again afterwards. Our suburb was one of the hardest hit by the hail...bigger than golf ball sized! One managed to break a window, I think I might be a lucky person, because there were many reports of many windows broken by the hail...many more than mine. Though the shredded leaves might take a while to clean up. Managed to get quite a few piles of leaves raked up. Hoping the scrub turkey will come good and start in on the back yard for me! I was lucky also to be able to get the window repaired the next day!

Out and about during the week by train... always intrigued by the art deco around...this was at Corinda station on my way to Inala for the art and craft It is agapanthus time here already... in the city, taken from the transit center Police Headquarters was where I had to catch a bus to The Percolater Art Gallery one of the many red corrugated iron roofs of Brisbane City getting off at the Trammie's corner...obviously reminding me of the trams that once ran around the roads of this fine city when I was growing up.. past the antique shops.. I'm not totally sure of the significance of these little mosaic plaques around the place... Was very intrigued by the state of repair of this place I walked past...on my 93 meters I had to walk from the bus stop, according to my travel instructions I can't believe I don't have a photo of the actual art gallery I went to, but I will include the link to the artist's website... WENDY C...

There was a solar eclipse here yesterday. Where I live it was 85% coverage of the sun. In Cairns in North Queensland, it was a total eclipse, so the accomodaton was totally booked out, as it would have been a grand place to camp out on the beach or esplanade to see it. No sooner had the sun risen in the sky brightly early in the morning, the eclipse happened, at 6.40 am at totality in Cairns and at about 7am down here. I took a photo of it on my mobile phone..by holding it up to the still fairly bright sun, here, and not looking! Not that you can see it really.  I was a little disappointed that it didn't get very dark here. The birds hardly seem disturbed about it at all. Should have gone to Cairns after all! It was just as if it was a little cloudy for a little while, but there was a bit of a difference.

Have been downloading some old cell phone photos...from NYC ... some wonderful favorite places at Inwood, at the very tip of Manhattan Island. And a favorite blog   ... a wonderful FALL post ... A Giving Tree...from Ann Voskamp, author of 1000 gifts.  and her blog,     A Holy Experience Thank you Ann. from another, greatly appreciative of your writing, and your faith, and your determination to pass it onto the next generation. Please click on "...a wonderful FALL post..." and "A Holy Experience" to go to these places. I cannot find how to highlight them in a different color in this new blog format, sorry.

a quick trip to the Sunshine coast by train, reveals amazing glimpses of the iconic Glasshouse Mountains I never tire of them  Mt Tibrogargan is the closest and most imposing.  I always think of Jesus as The Rock, and after our celebration of All Souls Day on Sunday "I sing a song of the Saints of God" one thinks of those who have gone before us, whose faith was a Rock for them, and that they took the trouble to have shared their faith with us. May we remember our important part of the work of God Passing down our faith to the next generation. please excuse marks on the train window...always a problem . It reminds me that we are all imperfect! But I know that our lives can be a window for God,  and pray that people will see the Love of God in us and not our imperfections.

Praise the Lord, O my soul.   I will praise the Lord all my life;   I will sing praise to my God as long as I live. Do not put your trust in princes,   in mortal men, who cannot save. When their spirit departs, they return to the ground;   on that very day their plans come to nothing. Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob,   whose hope is in the Lord his God, the Maker of heaven and earth,   the sea and everything in them..   the Lord, who remains faithful forever. He upholds the cause of the oppressed   and gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets the prisoners free,   the Lord gives sight to the blind, the Lord lifts up those who are bowed down,   the Lord loves the righteous. The Lord watches over the alien   and sustains the fatherless and the widow,   but he frustrates the ways of the wicked. The Lord reigns forever, your God, O Zion, for all generations. Praise the Lord. Psalm 146 fro...

  On a pleasant warm early November day, in a pretty Garden City, with lots of jacarandas blooming This Grandma was invited to Grandparent's day at the High School. The cows were there. An Australia wide art project. Schools were encouraged to decorate a cow and send it in, to celebrate the role that our farmers play. I thoroughly enjoyed the art exhibition. a wonderful concert by some talented music students A chapel service also with an interesting talk by the pastor on our life experiences and what they come to mean to us....not to mention time in the classroom, having an English and Maths lesson...interesting to see what they are doing these days, and to learn a new way of multiplying! So glad of my visit to the wonderful Garden City. Thanks to all concerned for a great time!