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 Monday's Critters

A touch of COVIDitionitis, maybe? 

Hehe, no, more like a gum-leaf hangover. Taken at Sydney's Koala park rather more years back than I care to believe.

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 MOONdays

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 Saturday Symmetry

Not all architecture in Australia is Euro-influenced... The Chinese Gardens in Sydney.

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"Life is really simple; but we insist on making it complicated."
(Confucius)

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 Last Thursday. No, not then. Now...

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Wings on Wednesday -

YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in photographing birds.

Synchronised searching!

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 Shipping by...

The Scotland Island ferry, Pittwater, NSW

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 Monday's Critters

Four days old and enjoying life!

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 SUNdays

Let there be light!

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 Saturday Symmetry

Continuing with Austrlian architecture, the Sydney CBD has lots of it within each building... and in its flags! 

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"You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind."

(Joyce Meyer) 

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 What say you to another Thursday?

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Wings on Wednesday -

YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in photographing birds.

the Australian silver gull, testing the waters.

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 Shipping by...

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 Monday's Critters

"A summer short-cut, Madame?"

Sheep shearing Aussie style!

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 SUNdays

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 Saturday Symmetry

Even modern modular Australian architecture has symmetry! (Noting that symmetry does not necessarily mean beautiful...)

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"Give light and the darkness will disappear of itself."

(Desiderius Erasmus) 

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 Yup. Thursday...

... how's your's looking?

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Wings on Wednesday -

YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in photographing birds.

Phew, got through another year...

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 Shipping by...

Teh Sound of Seil is one of four car ferries, each named for small isles of the inner Hebrides. Seil is one of the newer, 'green' vessels. Read more HERE.

This is the last of my current batch of shipping shots - taken on the last trip across to Dunoon on Dec 18th 2020.

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 Monday's Critters

Jade Woof MacLean was my heart dog, the one who thought for herself and taught me a thing or two about life... and obeyed my every command except when it involved That Black Poodle who insisted on walking past the gate every morning...

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 SUNdays

Sunset as viewed from the ashram, Mumbai.

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 Saturday Symmetry

...don't get much more symmetrical than square!!!

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"This world of ours...must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect."

(Dwight D Eisenhower) 

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 ...and the Thursday's just keep coming...what direction will this year take???

15 years back I had four times the hair (now grey) and four extra legs. The rest is much unchanged.

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Wings on Wednesday -

YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in photographing birds.

Dunno about you, but 2020 left me feeling a bit ragged too!

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 Shipping by...

This is actually a recent shot... just two weeks and three days old, in fact. Couldn't quite make out the name of the vessel though.

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 Monday's Critters

May as well start the archival trawl of critters with piccies of my angel pets (my brother just happens to have been visiting when this and next week's were taken!)

Jasper Cat MacLean was a fine example of the now established Australian Mist (designed by mixing Burmese with Abbysinian and Grey Tabby). He had much of the placid and shoulder-loving nature of the Burmese - and always the left shoulder, mind! 

(I chose this pic because it shows off his length and build really well.)

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 SUNdays

one of the 'not archives'...

This one's for nostalgia... Taken the morning dad landed up in hospital, never to return. I won't be staying in this place again so this view can be no more captured.

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 Saturday Symmetry

Australian Archtecture of the colonial period could be relied upon for symmetry!

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You don't need more than this today...