Week 69

L - Waterpark Fun - Last weekend we headed off for a family picnic in the sun to an 'adventure park' outside of Melbourne. I use the term adventure loosely, as it was more like 2 water slides, some other random water activities and mini golf that sort of thing. Anyway it was a sunny day and it was more a catch up with Shane's family. This is just a shot of some kids playing in the water jets in the kids area...i like the shadow and reflections here.


R - SubZero - It was *minus* 15 on Monday morning brrrrrrrrrr! I captured this shot of ice on the outside of the bedroom window just as the sun was coming up. I love the heat the sun brought to the right hand side of the photo and the way it kind of looks like an oil slick.

Week 68

L - This photo kinda sums up the week for me and the pets last week. It rained and rained and...um...rained. Although safe from the floods...the last week of my holidays were mostly spent cooped up at home and watching for a break in the rain to get outside and do something in the fresh air. My cat took up residence at the front door...staring at the deck in a trance like state hoping for the same break in the weather. This is Missy...waiting it out! She celebrated the end of the rain by sleeping outside all day in the back garden. ;-)

R - Can you imagine the joy when I stumbled across these bad boys in the grocery store. All I need now is some Irn Bru!

Week 67

L - What a hard life, I spent last weekend relaxing down at the beach. This is me taking a break from reading the paper to look out at the beach from the deck of the boat shed where I sat.

R - We had 8 glorious, fluffy as a could, inches of powder last night that made me want to rent a 4x4, grab my board and head for the hills. Instead I donned by wellies and went to work :( but I am looking into options for day trips on the weekends before it all melts.

Week 66

L - Last Sunrise of 2010 - We headed to the mountains after Christmas for the first time in summer and were lucky enough to stay up on the mountain for a couple of nights. By chance, I woke up needing a glass of water and got up to see a beautiful subdued sunrise. The last for the year.

R - We went to a Mad Men themed New Year's Eve party in the Lower East Side, it was lots of fun but I didn't take many pictures. I snapped this just before we left to catch the train, it's a long ride home at 3 in the morning! There are so many graffiti covered bathrooms in NYC, I love this one with the brick and the effect that the urinal is in an alley. I struggled to choose between this photo and one I snapped where we had to change trains on the way home. The subway was a bit of a hot mess, I might have also nearly got in a wee bit of a scuffle because I also took a photo of some kid throwing up on the tracks while his friend held his hair back. His friends however didn't seem my artistic vision and made me delete it. I wish I had my SLR and not the point and shoot because the flash went off and everyone looked my way. It was really amusing you'd have laughed!