green face

all there is is life

fires

What I need on a cold wet day.

Wonder if I've put these together before?

If you recall that I have, please let me know:

It doesn't bother me if thoughts take familiar tracks,

but its a short step then to boring.. 

yhchang

ceilings

The beautiful painted ceilings caught my attention too,

while looking through a few thousand shots. 

The light was not ideal, & I think I'd inadvertently 

changed the setting on my camera.

They are in Topkapi also

ottoman painted ceiling at christies

fireplace

As I was searching for a particular photo from my

2010 trip to Turkey, I realised I was cold, (looking
through more than 10,000 shots) so noticed these two

elegant ottoman fireplaces that are in Istanbul's Topkapi 

palace. Such a design needs a vast room.

turkish fairy tales 

play

Going to the beach with a small child is such fun.

The whole hearted pleasure at that age

is a lovely reminder, every moment new.

children's books at Tara Books

totems

Some of my sister's photos from their trip to W.A.,

which I turned around to find the waterline folk.

The place I really like the look of is the Bungle Bungles.

In a way, her photos reminded me of the mountains on the 

road from Srinagar to Ladahk : looking like

ruined buildings, pagodas, carved walls etc.

via my current favourite site 50watts

beach

Walked at the beach today, its calm again, just a few

small waves at the edge. The sunny days are a delight.

In Sydney I saw the wonderful sculpture which this 

you tube video begins with, by hossein valamanash

wildlife

Another carpet snake was catching the sun under 

my courtyard roof, on the same day someone

had made the large design at the beach.

The yellow masked birds look like urban bandits. 

animalarium

lace

All the leaves of a vine in the garden were eaten by some

hungry creature, it reminded me of some lace I've kept

because it was made by my grandmother or her mother.

They can't have just sat around quietly very often!

Although I can recall my grandmother knitting 

without having to look.

more cave art (but haven't they seen dappled horses?)

birds

Sometimes while on the phone
I fiddle with whatever

is nearby. 

earliest cave painting

wreck

On the western side of the main beach at Byron Bay

there's an old wreck which often has bigger waves.

Here you can just see the surfers behind the wave spray.

Got them last week, it's been raining heavily for

days, have hardly been out.

I missed the transit of venus, some good photos at 

downthewormhole

harbour

Many large ficus at Balmoral, & a calm beach where

we went one day. The graceful angophora (here growing on

a sandstone boulder) are common along the coast.

A full moon while I was in Sydney, an eclipse too,

then a transit of venus, wonder if it means anything ?

& below my friends' house, a wonderful cove, 

this rock is a particular favourite.

The city is not far away, yet seems so.

francescatosarelli

sydney

In Sydney for a week to meet friends, it was very wet

most of the time, but good to be somewhere different.

A festival named Vivid was in progress around 

the Opera House & Circular Quay.

There were moving light shows across the museum of

contemporary art, the opera house, & nearby buildings

I liked this one. The projection moved across the curves,

you'll have to imagine that. A large crowd seemed

to be enjoying it too.

vivid time lapse

windy

Back from Sydney ahead of the big storms there, 

the top of the waves in Byron were being

caught by the strong winds. Its cold too.

This large carpet snake was trying for some sun

in my neighbours garden. Another neighbour has

chickens, perhaps that's why it's so fat. 

I'll add some Sydney shots in next days.

jacketmechanical

fade

This was at full stretch, in low light, I like it because its

 reminiscent of memory.. fading. Its the Mekong

at Luang Prabang in Laos.

dam controversy

trees

We (collectively) have such a strange relationship with trees,

wouldn't you say? In Nepal I saw a photo in a museum, 

of young girls who were betrothed to a tree.

I'm more on the worship side, or the carving that 

somehow expresses that, but marrying one is perhaps too much... 

the oldest trees