Communing with Nana’s Chooks
I have a confession: I don’t like chooks*. (*If you are scratching your head, and you’re not from Down Under, see the panel to the right regarding some interpretations of Aussie lingo. If you can’t be bothered, then I’ll tell…
Ode to equine nose hair
You may have guessed by now how much I am motivated by my senses… …that the little things that might pass others by, rivet me, stall my steps, divert my attention, soak up my time. Things like a ray of…
Bush Babe’s Olympic effort
Aren’t you glad the Olympics are over?I sure am. Not that I don’t have my favourite moments (personally, I couldn’t go past our blond Aussie pole vaulter pretending he couldn’t jump anything much until the last moment, then scraping over…
Perspective
Recent posts have made me think a lot about perspective. In a literal kinda way. About how the angle that you look at things from really colours the way you SEE something. Like when something LOOKS closer or more threatening…
More Bull! With Manners Please…
I was going to do a Wordless Wednesday pic series. Then I realised that I don’t do wordless very well. And it’s not Wednesday. So I didn’t. … You all got me thinking, with your reaction last post to this…
Work not play, the BB way
I’m a little concerned that you guys think all I do is take photos of sunsets and my kids frolicking. That I live an empty life, awaiting the right light to hit a tree trunk or imbue a skylight with…
Happy Birthday Nana!
It’s my Mother’s birthday tomorrow. She’s *mumble*-ty. hhhhh!! She doesn’t want everyone to know. D’ya think I’ll be in strife by mentioning here? Heh. My Mum is a sweetheart. She’s tiny (5’1″) and blonde with vivid blue eyes and a…
A Matter of Opinion: which sunset?
OK. I have a little challenge for you. Don’t run away – it’s not hard. Promise. … Late yesterday I had to pick the boys up from another part of Granite Glen. At 5.30pm. Right on dark. Right on sunset.…
Oi, Oi, Oi!!!
This is wattle – it’s an Aussie bush currently in bloom around Granite Glen… Now, in a seeminly unrelated question: Are you watching the Olympics? Even if you are not a sports nut, the six-ring circus that is the World…
Oz Zoo by BB: a visual assault
Last week, the Granite Glen gang visited Australia Zoo. G’day Steve… the man was looking at us from almost every vantage point on the road in, and from monitors scattered throughout the Zoo. It could have been creepy but was…