Sunlight Flooded the Clearings

....There's a track winding back to the old familiar shack.....

I once asked on the forum whether your city is interested in saving power and joining Earth Hour by switching off for an hour tonight. Will it start to fire the collective conscience?

In Wraptured!

How would this chance installation stand up against the greats?
Environmental installation art is created by Christo and Jeanne-Claude. (Wikipedia) Wonderfully they have wrapped up many famous buildings, the Rockies - no less, and, more recently, The Gates Project, Central Park, NY, to name a few.
In Australia even, in 1969, the coast of Little Bay in Sydney was put in wrap. Would someone please ask them to return here? Once upon a time we must have enjoyed the surprise factor.

Hinton Pub. Corners Genre 1...... & Bridge Genre

Hinton Pub has some claim to fame, maybe it's the oldest licenced one in the country. Long Seat: Large timber support replaced in the nearby bridge.(We hope.)
Del was driving home from one of her business trips in Northern Arizona when she saw an elderly Navajo woman walking on the side of the road. She asked the woman if she would like a ride. With a silent nod of thanks, the woman got into the car. Del tried in vain to make small talk. The old woman just sat silently looking around until she saw a brown bag on the seat next to Del.
"Whats in the bag?" "It's a bottle of wine, I got it for my husband." The Navajo woman was silent for another moment or two. The speaking with the quiet wisdom of an elder, she said:
"Good trade.....!" ...................(Sorry fellas)

The Mellow Brick Road

Eric has posted the hand prints made by famous Parisian thespians.
This one is an interesting project in which pavers are decorated. Interested people can participate and create, ad lib, enough little masterpieces so as to pave a whole venue. It will take some time to complete.

Humpty Dumpties Sat On A Wall

Like Andy Warhol's replications, had K Mart gone all arty with this display? Up until I altered it.
I ask you, who better than an anthropomorphized egg for the message: new life and new hope?

Easter Bilby

Bilby or Easter Bunny? Is there a place in the Aussie psyche for the Easter Bilby? In white or dark chocolate? They were on sale right here at the PO/Sweet shop.
This relatively defenceless, rabbit sized, grey-blue, appealing, endangered marsupial needs all the help it can get and is highlighted for those reasons. Or is just an image even better than the real thing?
Remember, Biodiversity may be a key to our very survival.

Obedient Hound

Now that the owner of this affectionate dog is living in a nursing home, the dog often visits and loves to run and greet everyone and then take up duty in the courtyard.
She is a Kelpie, bred as a sheep dog and so turns her talents to 'rounding up' the gold fish while obediently keeping her distance.

The ATO Has A Heart.

How many public servants does it take to change a light bulb? Lunch in the park and fun and games as part of a charity fund raiser by the staff of the Tax Office, today, in Civic Park.
Prizes for the craziest hat, a tug of war, egg and spoon etc had the corporate team spirits aglow. This enables them to donate money to hospitals and charities. Government departments are second to none.

Surfing For Dummies.

Here, at Nobbys Beach, this afternoon, an Irish traveller from Dublin, waxin the boards. Two fellas are travelling, new boards, new campervan, heading north for an endless summer. He was making some progress with surfboarding, he said. Surfing For Dummies is a recent book title, I heard. Is it possible to learn how before taking to the water?

Chez Felipe

This abode has always given a measure of surprise for some time now as to appearance and as to purpose. Is it really a cafe? In Hannell Street, Wickham. A surfboard has been well chosen for the sign.

Ships-Waiting-For-Coal today: 67

One and All

...but that was yesterday.....On Election day the Polling Booth at the state school hall was busy. Voting is compulsory and a 'please explain' or a fine may arrive if you miss out. The Aboriginal Australian Flag has a place there.

My Franchise

State elections today. Can the papers get much larger than this? Voting remains 'homely' and reassuringly low-tech at this time.

That Visit To The Dentist

The time had come. Everything was ready. Photo taking was a diversion but "no worries". The extraction was painless really. The care was wonderful. NIB Dental Care is a very good service.

Capricornia. Maccas IV

Edging closer to the tropic of Capricorn, here's the Golden Arches at the Caboolture interchange. Unknown territory yet we make a familiar sighting. Anyone for trans fats?

Beachside Vendor

Tropical sno. Was it flown in? From a high mountain near the equator?

Tea Towel Projection

Everything is relative.
Here's a new take on accepted wisdom. Look who's 'down under' now.

Subtle Bloomer

Taking A Break

Politics is demanding. The idealism of youth is great as seen at a political rally against participation in the war in Iraq and 'Free David Hicks' (from Gulag Guantanamo Bay) The Greenies, Church reps, Marxists - all sides were involved. Mrs Habib and fiesty Mr Mamdouh Habib, from Sydney, spoke, he was a former Guantanamo Bay detainee and is now an election candidate.

The Coathanger. Bridge Genre

Sydney city draws in visitors like me. Here's QE II with something large looming in the background. Cunard stunts were wowing the crowds several weeks ago. The bridge is celebrating 75 years. Climbers had a terrific view from the top - see tiny dots. (A whole lot of British know-how and the Tee side were initially involved, back in the thirties, they say)
The bridge walk for Aboriginal Reconcilation remains my peak memory from several years ago .

Hinoki-ya The Traveling Band.

Hinoki-ya The Traveling Band from.......Japan from the sister city for Lake Macquarie. Guitar, Accordian, Drums, Woodwind and assorted instruments.
Today, delightful novel entertainment, with percussion in all shapes and sizes, the rhythm was the tricky part, was unlike traditional taiko. The band travels widely.