Saturday.
The caravan is small. I am sitting on the bed and Flair takes up most of the floor space. If we are facing the sun she loves to lie here.
Flair’s Favourite Spot.
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First Friday – March 2021
Friday.
A month at home after being in quarantine for 2 weeks in January and now I’m on the road again. A few sudden border closures in that month, mainly WA and Victoria which just highlights how important it is to keep an weather eye on what is happening throughout Australia with the Covid restrictions. I know it is laughable overseas to have Australia snap shut the borders between States with ONE new Covid case in the community. But I would rather have the inconvenience of that to all the deaths happening in other countries. Hopefully I won’t get caught this time on this trip back to Sydney to pick up all the stuff I had to leave behind because the car couldn’t be freighted across State borders with any items in it. I have Flair and the caravan this time and we’ll make a beach holiday of this month.
My back yard when I got back from Sydney in January was overrun by the pumpkin vine and now I’m waiting for 5 pumpkins to mature before winter. The pumpkins grew from seeds in the compost and are a stop gap until I get a dwarf fruit tree to fill the space.
I decided to have a 1 on 1 workshop with Andrew Goodall from Nature’s Image during February. So pleased I did. I learnt heaps more about my new camera as well as using Manual for slow shutter speeds for making milky wave water. The photo below was taken by Andrew and he kindly gave me a copy and permission to post it on my Blog.
The month pasted quickly with a few outings, movies and books to read but by 20th I was itching to be on the road again. So here I am on my way to Sydney and a few stops on the way home at more beaches.
Come back on the First Friday next month (which will be the week of Easter!) to see what I have been doing on my trip down to Sydney. Goodness the seasons come and go quickly these days.
North Haven Sunrise.
Thursday.
Lots of foam on the beach which stuck to Flair’s legs and she didn’t like it as it was sticky. Hopefully not in a bad way (pollution). It did make for an interesting feature across the sand.
A Trip To Sydney And Return.
Wednesday.
Finally all the borders between States are open and I’ve taken this chance to go to Sydney to get all the stuff I had to leave with my son when Greater Sydney became a ‘Hotspot’ over Xmas. The only way to get home was to fly, freight my car back and do 14 days in quarantine. Because of Covid the freight companies wouldn’t allow any, and I mean any, stuff to remain in the car, hence leaving it with my son. Hopefully I won’t get caught out with another border closure this time.
I’m in the caravan with Flair this time. We’ll make about a months trip out of it and spend some time at the beaches we haven’t been to for a year and explore some new ones. Our first few nights were at North Haven Beach near Port Macquarie.
Textured Tuesday – March 2021
Tuesday.
‘Lullaby’ is a creation of Photoshop. I took a curved rock and water image taken at Shelley Beach and with layers in Photoshop turned and morphed it into something else. Added colour and birds and it becomes difficult to see just where the original is, except for it’s influence.
Beauty Lingers – A Creeping Weed.
Monday.
This vine cum weed thing was growing over a local fence. It’s sort of a succulent but not that fleshy and I wasn’t sure if it would dry well. It did and it looks lovely flowing out of the basket. I will have to spend more time and make an arrangement with the other stems I picked.
Creative curves
Basket of beauty.
More curves
f2.8 Hi-key.
Beauty Lingers – White Daisies.
Sunday.
These common white daisies don’t look particularly flower like or fragile. They have dried to this muddy colour and to me look more like mop heads than flowers but that’s part of the interest in letting the flowers die and dry inside, I get to see what happens to them when left alone for a length of time.
Beauty Lingers – Poppies
Saturday.
Back to an old favourite of mine, the Beauty Lingers Project. Some new dried flowers have been sitting on my small table for months so it is now time to capture their fragility and their strength for the series. They were on the table so long some dog hairs have lodged on them and stuck.
Banksia Patterns.
Friday.
In Australia we have many different native Banksias as well as lots of hybrids. They are a large showy flower, about as big as an adult clenched fist. This is a hybrid banksia but I love the patterns formed by the stamens.
Looping Leeks.
Thursday.
The leeks I grew in my garden were well and truly over ready with the flower heads drooping all over the place. With the convoluted twisted stems I thought they made an interesting ‘vase of flowers’.
