Stubborn. Annoying. Funny. Wonderful. They are my heart. Via the Daily Post Photo Challenge #42: Family
My first MeetUp
So I’m here. I am at my first MeetUp. I spent the morning looking at the sunrise with friends. Ducked home to collect my computer and drove to Redfern where a group of writers were going to get together and work on their projects. Redfern is an inner suburb of Sydney. It used to be […]
Listening to George at Enmore Theatre
Around about this time last year George Ezra came to town. I left my husband and son at home to watch him perform. It was a great night! For Debbie’s Six Word Saturday.
Wonder
We were driving to the top of Mt Wellington/Kunanyi. It was so cloudy we thought we would see nothing. As we headed higher, we rose above the clouds to bright sunshine and blue skies. We didn’t get to see the city below that day. The mountain treated us to a sea of white clouds instead. […]
Our brief Hong Kong visit
Hong Kong. Located east of the Pearl River estuary, they say people have been on that tiny island for more than 35,000 years. It came under Chinese control for the first time more than 2,200 years ago under the Qin Dynasty. Then came the British in the 1800s when the island was ceded to them […]
Windows
Found close to the ground in Macau. Via the Daily Post Photo Challenge #39: Windows
The remarkable retirement of Margaret Tung
Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else. — Fred Rogers 68-year-old Margaret Tung spent her working life in education and training. When she retired she saw an opportunity to assist her community and jumped right in. She retired towards the end of 2010 and a […]
Red tree. Blue sky. Beautiful Autumn.
Taken some time ago. For Debbi’s Six Word Saturday!
Hidden
Hidden under notices and scraps of paper is our life. Edited using Hipstamatic. Via the Daily Post Photo Challenge #38: Hidden
Korean ginseng from Tasmania
It’s called Insam in Korea. A herb so valuable they say battles have been fought over the land on which it grows. Asian ginseng has been found in Korea, northeastern China and far eastern Siberia for centuries. But, thanks to a German-born Australian, Ziggy Pyka, it is now being grown on the other side of […]
Over the bridge to the city
You see this view from the train as you leave Milsons Point station. For Six Word Saturday. Thank you for hosting Debbie!
Fred and Faye
Love, real love, is forged through trials and joys. It weathers the storms and basks in the sunlight after they clear. It isn’t easy to build a life together that can last until the end of our days. Romantic notions of love are fleeting and what is needed is endless patience, compromise and a willingness […]
