Annie's Blog

well, that wasn't very successful trying to transfer a photo from fb to blog hmm...back to the drawing board. As you might guess I was in Trieste Italy  for a short while with some family members. Great fun. More photos to come!!

  went to a Biggest Morning Tea at the village...where we raised over a thousand dollars for breast cancer research...   one of the men did these wonderful flower arrangements for the tables   and it was a much nicer day at the beach!!  the Banksia above and Panadanus below are always fascinating local native flora... Hope you are having a good week..wherever you are!  May God be with you!!

  oops...an out of focus photo of the beach apartments...  the beach was visited on a rainy dreary day...  we have had many of them!!   above, one of my favorite puzzles!!  and a sweet potato was found in the cupboard...a little out of control!! love the petunias at this time of the year...very cheerful...

  A roundup of the week starts with a colorful ginger plant... and a cute fluffy kookaburra....  and this selection   ends  with   The Light Horse Brigade from the Anzac Day Parade   going past on their way home. Hope you have had an OK week...It won't seem to stop raining here!! 

there's a bird in the top of this tree.... I don't know whether to blame the photographer or the camera for a not so clear photo... I suspect the former! One day I took some photos of the dying bromeliads ... and here is another photo of the beautiful African violet... And that is about it for this week. Gosh I haven't even been over to the beach...we have had very hot weather then very wet weather!! Hopefully we may have more days that feel more like autumn soon!! Have a great week everyone!!

  Nice for the tourist crowds to have departed back to the city so we locals can get to the beach again!   The seagulls may think differently perhaps..less fish and chips for them? Also nice for the cyclone season to be almost finished. One ended up a little close for comfort down this way lately..but luckily departed out to sea instead of crossing the coast! Suppose that means we ended up with less rain than we could have had for the summer. The farmers might be still looking for more?   My moon shots aren't the most professional, but it is still fun trying, watching it, and posting!   Here is Stumpy the water dragon... Love trying to take a photo of them...such interesting fellows! Well, that's about it for today...hope you have a good week, if anyone happens to be reading this old blog still!! And may God's Blessings be with you !! And with the dog over the road who won't stop barking!!!

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...