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WPC: Beginning (of a twister?)

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Beginning of a twister

Swirling Cloud

On our recent holiday at Cape Schanck, we were sitting on the balcony of our hotel room, when a loud siren sounded from the National Golf Club (building on the far left) – a storm which had been threatening for a while began to move rapidly towards land, fronted by this amazingly low cloud, which swirled ever so slowly as it came.

I attempted to capture some of its slow swirling motion with my iPhone, as it moved overhead.

For more entries to this week’s WPC, see The Daily Post.

My top five notables from this week’s entries:

An Enchanted Eye

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Flickr Comments

Oh, The Places We See

Zeebra Designs and Destinations

WPC: Joy

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I confess, I love road trips, but only if there aren’t too many people involved in the planning, logistics and execution. I enjoy taking them with my mum – even though we disagree on a few fundamentals of life, we travel well together – and my husband, who is the subject of this photo. Travelling with the people I love is one of my great joys in life. imageFor more entries to this WPC, see The Daily Post.

WPC: Community (The Secret Life of Cows)

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“I really don’t like the look of this two-legs.“

“Always suspicious of outsiders, aren’t you, Wazza?“

“Well, look, for a start, it isn’t making the usual ooh-they’re-so-cute noises.“

“He has a point, Dazza. It’s giving us the death stare. Maybe this two-legs has something to do with the overnight disappearance of our mothers, and our milk supply.“

“Ever the conspiracy theorist, Davo.“

“I reckon, it’s a Gary Larson agent.“

“Talking a load of bullocks, as usual, Kezza.“

“I think it should be eliminated. Charge on 3!“

“Good luck with the electric fence. Catchya later at the ‘Trough and Tag’.”

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For more entries to this week’s WPC, see The Daily Post. These 5 stood out for me:

Frizztext

Broken Light: A Photography Collective

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Piran Café

Ellen Gregory

WPC: Let There Be Light

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Inspired in its use of paint and colour to depict light is my favourite painting in the Art Gallery of NSW: Elioth Gruner’s Spring Frost – if you ever have the privilege of seeing this painting in its original form, look closely and you will see the light shining through the farmer’s earlobes – it’s quite remarkable.

And, one evening this year, came upon this pretty scene while walking through Hyde Park in Sydney.

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Below, my top 5:

Creativity Aroused

A Meditative Journey with Saldage

Wind Against Current

Ron Mayhew’s Blog

On Dragonfly Wings with Buttercup Tea

Vale Nelson Mandela

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“Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life. While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.”

“As the years progress one increasingly realises the importance of friendship and human solidarity. And if a 90-year-old may offer some unsolicited advice on this occasion, it would be that you, irrespective of your age, should place human solidarity, the concern for the other, at the centre of the values by which you live.” 

Nelson Mandela

Weekly Photo Challenge: Unexpected

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bb-un1Wild Conspiracies (a re-post)

I ask scribbly gum moths:
Why this graffiti on trees?
“Mind your own business,
they’re just doodles, if you please”

I ask a plodding snail:
Why the squiggles on the path?
“There ain’t nothing in it –
I just do it for a laugh”

I ask the sly hyena:
Why the tunnels ‘neath the trail?
“Well! Installation art’s
not only for the snail!”

I ask the bower bird:
Why that hoard of shining bling?
“Oh, poppet, it’s no mystery
objets d’art are my thing”

I ask the primping zebra:
What’s with the barcode?
“Poor darling, don’t you know?
Stripes are back in vogue”

But, you know, I don’t believe them –
It’s a vast conspiracy
It’s clear that they are sending
secret messages to me…

😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯

For more entries to the WPC Unexpected theme, see The Daily Post.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Habit

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bb-hb1It’s our habit, on a Saturday, to head out early for breakfast at our local, and then to the golf course for 18 holes.

We got more than we bargained for today – on the fourth, a thunderstorm so powerful in its rain and wind action that we struggled to run against it to seek shelter from the lightning spiking all around us. The golf course was flooded in a couple of minutes – it’s frightening how quickly the weather can turn deadly.

For more entries to the WPC Habit theme, see The Daily Post.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Horizon

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Smoke Eclipse

This is a snapshot of the skies towards the Blue Mountains, which were ablaze with raging bush-fires last week – and there is more of the same on the horizon for Australia. Today, a week later, Sydney is blanketed in smoke once again, and Summer is not yet upon us 😯

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Didn’t get time to do my usual 5 favourites, but love these two entries to the Horizon WPC

Wind Against Current

Third Eye Mom

Weekly Photo Challenge: The Hue of You

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I'm a night person - chronotype: late

I’m a night person – shadows and light – chronotype: late

What chronotype are you?

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For more entries to this week’s WPC, see The Daily Post

My 5 favourites

These Vagabond Shoes

Promenade Plantings

Marsowords

Broken Light: A Photography Collective

The Quotidian Diary

 

Weekly Photo Challenge: Infinity

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bb-inf2When riding the Domain Car Park’s travelator late last Thursday evening, I felt as if I was moving toward some secret portal from which I’d be puffed out into the deepest ocean, or some faraway galaxy. Add to this a lone skateboarder on the travelator hurtling towards us at great speed, giant snails in the park, and dirty laundry hanging in the streets and I began to think we’d fallen down the wormhole of infinite surrealism.

For more entries to this week’s photo challenge, see The Daily Post.

Weeky Photo Challenge: Good Morning, Big 5Oh!

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bb-gm1bb-gm3“If one is lucky enough to be blessed with good health, growing older shouldn’t be something to complain about. It’s not a surprise, we knew it was coming−make the most of it.”

Betty White

“Just remember that a 6-year-old would get tired from doing a lot of what you do. I don’t see no 6-year-olds walking the golf course! Hell no!”

My niece Jayde

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Like any self-preserving 50-year-old, I partied yesterday so I could have today to recover

For more entries to last week’s WPC, see The Daily Post

Weekly Photo Challenge: Saturated

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Saturated

On a grey, saturated day in May,
the trees at a local nursery delight
with their saturated colour display

Sunset in the Blue Mountains

As does a sunset in the Blue Mountains

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Little moments of the right kind of shock and awe

For more entries to this week’s challenge, see The Daily Post.

My 5 favourites:

Let the Great Wheels Spin

A Meditative Journey with Saldage

@ The West Gate

Wood Rabbit Journey

Puncta Lucis

Weekly Photo Challenge: From Lines to Patterns

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Macquarie University Train Station

Macquarie University Train Station

Macquarie University is the only university in Sydney that has its own train station. Under the stewardship of former vice-chancellor Professor Steven Schwartz, the university has undergone significant modernization and growth, particularly in the area of research in medicine and the hearing sciences. And we now have a fabulous new library, what is termed a sustainable building, which makes assignment research (something I’m meant to be doing right this minute :-D) a pleasure.

For more entries to last week’s photo challenge, see The Daily Post.