Annie's Blog

these are a few of my favorite things..families children with grandparents kids and babies being curious did I mention families? extended families... kids having fun old family photos ....and kids growing up Many apologies for the quality of these photos...I have just recently taken photos of some of my old photos...and have put some here for the Brenda Photo Challenge... Favorite Things . Now there are many other things I could have put here also...Books, Reading, Sudokus and Playing Cards, Tennis...Photography, oh lots of things, Rain,The Beach, The Ocean not to mention the Grandchildren!!! But Donna from her lovely blog Cottage Days and Journeys has just been visiting here for my photos and I am NOT Ready. Oh well, maybe I will be more prepared next Challenge! Thanks for visiting everyone.....please go to the Brenda Photo Challenge for more people participating today.

a quick trip over to the gardens ...resulted in a LETTER for the BRENDA PHOTO CHALLENGE...(which appears at the end of this post)... as well as resulting in some very interesting photos of some interesting plants (there are also some sideways letters here for the challenge, above) Quite a different world over there.....Did you see the letter I found above...is it an N or a sideways Z? Visit the other contributors in the Brenda Photo Challenge by clicking on the icon in the sidebar .

some pot plants ... and brooms for cleaning up inside... lovely tilled earth in the vegetable and flower garden and the sheep grazing on the ground nearby. I will have to come up with an appropriate Bible Text here ..all I can think of at the moment is " Sheep May Safely Graze " which is the name of my all time favorite piece of music by Bach. This is an entry in the Brenda Photo Challenge this month. (If I am not too late). You can click on the Brenda Photo Challenge picture over in the sidebar to see other entries in this month's challenge of images capturing "DIRT". A funny one, but interesting. Yes, I was too late. A reminder for next time Annie..be early, be organised! ;-)

BEFORE I BEGIN THE CHALLENGE TALK, could I please alert you to the prayer request in my sidebar ..Many thanks to those of you who have already prayed for the situation in Victoria...my son, sister (and brother in NSW) and their families are all safe and well this morning. Praise God. [Unfortunately not all have been so lucky, and upwards of 35 people lost their lives in fires there yesterday]! The Brenda Photo Challenge this week, was great fun for me. "Patterns" , I thought. Great. Just down my alley! And then I saw the "Textures" bit. Oh . mmm..that is a bit more difficult. But then I saw these photos of mine from New York, and thought they might qualify for Texture Photos. And of course some of these photos of some of the flowers and things from the Botanic Gardens at Mt Cootha near here I thought might qualify too! And of course I can never resist trying to take photos of the bark when it is peeling off the trees. This is what left of a lotus flower after the...

On my visit to Toowong, I had other business to conduct there after I had been to the dentist on the way home, and I noticed this NEW building over the road...and a wonderful reflection in it of the church next door. I am thinking of Joni and the homeless when I look at this church, as for years and years...at least twenty I think, there was a gentleman who preferred to live on the street outside this church, in full view of all the passing traffic on it's way to work in the city or at the university every morning. He was surrounded by all his possessions in plastic bags, and even though many people tried to help him, he never wanted to be anywhere else. Until a year or so ago, when the council announced that they had found another park for him to sleep in...hopefully it may have included shelter for extremely hot or cold or wet days! Of course they never said where it was! I think it was getting dangerous for him to stay where he was and he may have encountered some not very nice...