Annie's Blog

Had visitors in town, had a fall and hurt some ribs, then more visitors!! Busy busy!! Will try to pictorially catch up here, may take more than one post! view from a restaurant perched high on the escarpment in the Sunshine Coast hinterland, Montville. a peak down a laneway at a little chapel, very popular with weddings I presume! and inside a regular chapel in the main street of this very popular tourist town...  some views walking down the main street... the tech expert ...just checking the technology still works. If I remember correctly a major company to which I am connected for most of my devices had a bit of a major outage this day we were tripping around, (while I was trying to connect with family re babysitting, picking up after school duties!!) I don't remember being compensated for the outage either!!  there were a lot of interesting art works on tiles along the footpaths...  interesting architecture and art galleries of course...

the home grown passionfruit have been very delicious, even if they don't look really great!! but I just photograph the mushrooms //fungi that pop up after our prolonged wet spells...  visited a cafe at the beach while waiting for someone at the hospital...  found a brewery at the back of the cafe...hmm...thought I had gone to the wrong place... please forgive me if I am repeating these photos from a previous post ...  some of the local flora  that I cant resist taking photos of...  an african violet that decided to flower after being shifted to an obviously much better position!! and boats on the river where I often go for fish and chips... more photos later...hopefully sooner rather than later since I am a little incapacitated with bruised ribs from a silly fall (my great new walking shoes for my poor feet don't take kindly to the indoors ...they are pretty lethal when they get tangled in overhanging bedclothes beside the b...

 After some choppy cyclonic conditions for what seems like a long time...  and a trip to a different (Moffatt) beach  where I went for a coffee at a cafe (and discovered a brewery in the back...)  after dropping someone for a meeting at the new Sunshine Coast University Hospital and admiring the local Banksia flower (more stormy scenes)  And after getting a very close up shot of the inner workings of the ancient cycad plant at Moffatt Beach  finally the sun came out and the flowers started to bloom in the ...autumn..(a Golden Penda above  dropped Mummy at another  different meeting at a different (Mudjimba) Beach (what a tough life we all have)  looking at Old Woman Island off Maroochydore from Mudjimba beach  we dallied to look at some more of the local plants in the dunes...  and were nearly home late for Daddy to take someone to soccer!!  my passionfruit vines have been floweri...

Have been very slow at keeping up here... Here is my new friend ;-) It was raining when I went over to the beach for fish and chips one day... But it is still nice to be there.. Hope you have had a good start to the year.. And an even better week! God Bless.

More to come...

 spring flowers  trips to Toowoomba for special occasions  always enjoy seeing these grain silos again...  and of course the jacarandas were looking good too  love the Brisbane architecture, in particular this house as I pass by each trip another old Queenslander house and sometimes even the army is on the move... It has been quite wet lately after a VERY LONG DRY spell...and I have had several trips to Toowoomba, the Garden City for several reasons... and I notice the next folder of photos hasn't been edited yet, so they will have to go in the next edition...hopefully next week!! Hope you have a great week! May God Bless You. and a Happy Thanksgiving!!