Aug 17, 2016 | photography
I’m usually a dark-and-moody-photo-sort-of-gal, but the first daffodils in the garden were just begging for a little high-key treatment. sometimes it’s fun to shake things up a little In the comments, I’d love to hear: What is your favourite thing...
Jul 27, 2016 | live laugh love
It seems that these posts come most when I need to stop and smell the roses. I was telling a girlfriend today that… …someone pressed fast forward on my life, and I can’t find the stop button I’ve been having moments lately when it seems that...
Jul 20, 2016 | photography
Lou wanted Tim’s 70th birthday was going to be remembered in a special way… It was the Thursday evening before, when the phone rang. Lou, full of apologies for leaving the booking so late, explained that Keel was home for the weekend to surprise Tim for...
Jul 13, 2016 | live laugh love, photography
We’ve just had a couple of days on the North Coast, visiting with Grandma and Grandpa and enjoying the warmer (than where we live) weather. it’s always wonderful to see the coastal colours of winter too …especially compared to the stark, brown, dry...
Jun 22, 2016 | family, photography
With suggestions that we might get snow this weekend, I thought I’d put together a winter photo checklist specific to an Australian winter. There are plenty of Northern Hemisphere-based winter photo checklists, but they all include fun snowy things like snowball...
Jun 15, 2016 | Speaking My Mind
death and decay I’ve been watching this lone, tenacious apple for a few weeks now. It has held on, slowly shrivelling, while all the other apples on the tree let go to begin their return to the earth. Death and decay have been hovering in my field of vision for...
Jun 1, 2016 | photography
May 25, 2016 | Speaking My Mind
it has been 4 years since I started turning my computer off at 7 p.m. When I first wrote about turning off my computer, my motivation was to spend more time with my family. Add to that I was exhausted and in need of some necessary me-time of an evening, these two...
May 18, 2016 | photography
Our dog Jo will be 8 this year, and lately we’ve noticed age creeping up on her. she’s never been a fan of having a bath but in true dog-style, she insists on laying in the dirt near her kennel, which meant it was time for a freshen up. A few years back,...
