For the Lens-Artists Weekly Challenge — Delicate Colours. Read more
Delicate Balance
Corvid-2020 Weekly Challenge #9
Welcome to Week 9 of my Corvid-2020 Weekly Challenge. Corvids are birds belonging to the Corvidae family, encompassing ravens, crows, magpies, jays and nutcrackers. So peruse your corvid photo, poetry, music and story archives and join the challenge.
You can participate in the Corvid-2020 Weekly Challenge by creating a pingback to this post (my pingback approval settings are set up for manual approval, so it may take a little while for your pingback to appear) and/or by leaving a hyperlink to your submission in the comments. Tag your post Corvid-2020 or C20WC. I really do hope you will join in. Read more
Corvid-2020 Weekly Challenge #8
Welcome to Week 8 of my Corvid-2020 Weekly Challenge. Corvids are birds belonging to the Corvidae family, encompassing ravens, crows, magpies, jays and nutcrackers. So peruse your corvid photo, poetry, music and story archives and join the challenge.
You can participate in the Corvid-2020 Weekly Challenge by creating a pingback to this post (my pingback approval settings are set up for manual approval, so it may take a little while for your pingback to appear) and/or by leaving a hyperlink to your submission in the comments. Tag your post Corvid-2020 or C20WC. I really do hope you will join in.
My turn now. Read more
My Day
As many of my regular readers will know, I am quite an introvert. So you would think self-isolation would suit me well, but even I am struggling. My True Love and I have had a few tense moments too. As we have no known cases of active Covid-19 infections in my fair city, restrictions were eased somewhat last weekend. It is a tricky time. Physical-distancing fatigue is definitely an issue for a significant proportion of Aussies. Needing to protect vulnerable family members, among others, our family took cautious advantage of the relaxation of the lockdown rules to catch up with family on Mothers Day. Read more
Corvid-2020 Weekly Challenge #7
Welcome to Week 7 of my Corvid-2020 Weekly Challenge. Corvids are birds belonging to the Corvidae family, encompassing ravens, crows, magpies, jays and nutcrackers. So peruse your corvid photo, poetry, music and story archives and join the challenge.
You can participate in the Corvid-2020 Weekly Challenge by creating a pingback to this post (my pingback approval settings are set up for manual approval, so it may take a little while for your pingback to appear) and/or by leaving a hyperlink to your submission in the comments. Tag your post Corvid-2020 or C20WC. I really do hope you will join in. Read more
The Changing Seasons – April 2020
April 2020 (Autumn in Australia) — Canberra Walks Off The Covid-19 Crisis.
Never have so many Canberrans taken to the streets. Not to protest, but to walk.
It rained. The sun shone. An urban forest revived after drought; too late for some trees. Spring migrants like the Caper White butterfly feasted on autumn weeds. Little dumpies (Diplodium truncatum) emerged from leaf litter to greet the day and would-be pollinators. And the people came in their hundreds to traipse over woodland and reserve, grateful for the reprieve from summer’s hell, as they waited for the virus nightmare to end. Read more
Home Art
Are you being driven to abstraction by home confinement? What do you do if you have the concentration span of a gnat? I have been fiddling around with photo editing and walking. More on the walking part later, but for now, what? Oh yes, photo editing. Home has become a canvas for my creative endeavours. Hope you like black and white. Read more
Take A Walk On The Re-Wild Side
Sometimes, ladies and gentlemen, my ambition gets the better of me. I’ve always wanted to make a mosaic of a red-browed finch. I tried, but it did not go well. Perhaps I’m being too much of a perfectionist. The finished product is a bit ragged because I de-constructed it a couple of times in a manner that was a touch violent. Still, I got control of myself and made what repairs I could. Read more
The Early Bird
I’m not a morning (photography) person. In the morning, I am usually pretending to be too busy doing stuff to be wasting my time taking photos. So consequently when I checked my photo archive for the Lens-Artists Photo Challenge — Morning, my morning photos were few and far between. I normally start to take a few photos around midday, you know, to further avoid actually doing anything “productive”. My photography tempo picks up early afternoon, peaking between 3.30pm and sunset. That’s because by 3.30pm, I’ve convinced myself that it is now too late to actually do anything concrete, for example, like starting work on whatever art project I happen to be contemplating at the time. Read more
Corvid-2020 Weekly Challenge #5
Welcome to Week 5 of my Corvid-2020 Weekly Challenge. Corvids are birds belonging to the Corvidae family, encompassing ravens, crows, magpies, jays and nutcrackers. So check out your corvid photo, poetry, music and story archives and join the challenge.
Over 170,000 people have died from Covid-19 since December 2019, and yet, I can still enjoy this little corvid challenge. There’s something about minutely concentrating on one thing and just one thing that helps me keep my sanity. It is a triumph of bravado over pessimism. So are you ready? Let’s go corvid-hunting. Read more
Reflections of An Untidy Mind 