Annie's Blog

Have been awoken to some  poetry of late... and so I put this here .. from Mary Oliver WILD GEESE You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting — over and over announcing your place in the family of things. Wild Geese: Selected Poems  is a soul-stretching read in its entirety. Complement it with Oliver’s deeply endearing  Dog Songs , one of the  best boo...

I do enjoy crossing this little pond and looking at the waterlilies... Sorry I don't have clearer photos of them... (I don't enjoy looking at the weeds that infest the creek...but the council does come and clean them out occasionally!) Have a great week!

Did I post the African violet yet? It has been so pretty... and the full moon was pretty good too ...  always fun to see the Australia Day parade go past  even though  the date we celebrate it  seems to be becoming  quite contoversial some people even call it Invasion Day... the tennis has been interesting too, but of course I have been forgetting to take photos of it! Hope you have a great Australia Day week!!

Just some shots from a pretty garden when the agapanthus were in full flight,,,I mean flower(ing)!

  Had a little trip out to the country to visit some friends for New Year. A little problem for my back travelling a way in the car these days, but the journey was broken into four days so that and a motel at the end made it all a little easier.   passing through some old familiar territory  I was reliably informed by my driver who is an agricultural scientist that this must be sorghum growing here  silos everywhere. Not yet painted as some are down in the south of the country...and unfortunately not very full with grain....this year being a very dry year!   following a road train..   and a nice little park to stop and refresh  going down the Great Dividing Range!! Not terribly impressive, but still the water that falls on the right goes to the Pacific Ocean and to the left, down to South Australia, if or when  it ever gets there!  This little unassuming hall was built as a memorial to a beetle. One that...

God Bless You this Christmas and New Year!

School holidays are always fun...little people making things and playing games!! a four legged friend ..at the hospital! Loving this new rug  FUN to slow down and ponder the waterlilies down at the pond  and to enjoy the beach too!! May God bless you this Christmas season!!