I sat outside yesterday morning with my coffee, enjoying the early morning cool weather. I looked up at the sky and wondered if the rain was coming or going. All of a sudden through the haze a rainbow appeared. As I sat in silent wonder, it seemed to become brighter. A lovely treat for a Saturday morning I thought.
Brian @ Bushboy’s World is the host for this week’s Monochrome Madness. His theme is chairs in case you haven’t guessed. I’ve picked a few from my archives but I do have a special chair to share too.
The chair above was my husband’s grandmother’s. It is an antique (Victorian?) nursing chair. It has been reupholstered in yellow silk. It is a beautiful piece of furniture, but doesn’t look at all comfortable to nurse a feeding baby.
In front of our room in Khao Lak, Thailand
Melbourne Museum of Art
It would be quite alarming having this hanging over you while studying.
Bali, Indonesia
“It’s not what’s on the table that matters, it’s who is in the chairs”
The Pickle Factory, Wisconsin – 2015
“Old empty chairs are not empty in reality; memories always sit there”
The Summer school holidays finally came to an end here in Perth. Master Lachie would be starting year 2 and Miss Rosie would be entering kindergarten. Time for new shoes. I took both munchkins to our local shopping centre to have their feet measured up for new shoes. Everything is so sophisticated these days, and feet are measured electronically. Back in the day your foot was put into a wooden contraption with a slide bar.
Rosie was going two and three days a week, so I can still have my days with her.
Out shopping for her favourite toys.
We had some extensive tree cutting and bush pruning performed by professionals. Although my dear hubby said he would do it all – eventually – it’s the removal of all the debris that is a problem. Now I have an empty flower bed to replant, which I’ll be getting advice about.
I’m looking forward to discussing ideas with a lady I found locally.
The weather is turning slightly cooler in the mornings and evenings which is a relief. I’ve been able to sit out in the mornings with my coffee. This little guy has been visiting every morning and having a morning feed. Luckily Zac and Rufus didn’t notice.
Hubby and I had a lovely lunch in Fremantle last week. We tried a place that was new to us but I’d heard good reviews. It was such a beautiful day, we managed to get a table outside.
A couple of sculptures caught my eye. The dog is so cute.
Say hello to Dwert (noongar for dingo). Created by sculptor – Martin Jaine.
The above is a life size sculpture of a memorial to the migrant children. Between 1947 and 1953 over 3,000 children (many unaccompanied) from UK and Malta migrated to Western Australia. They went to voluntary and religious organisations. Many of these children we now know were little more than unpaid workers. They suffered untold abuse which has only come to light in the last ten years or so. The children were told they were orphans. Some of them were. Others had mothers who, due to extreme hardship, had no choice but to let them go.
We stopped at a local delicatessen to pick up some goodies and this exotic lady was posing in the middle of the shop.
Please don’t touch. I am very fragile. My name is Caffe’tina. I was made in 12 days. Arrived 8th January 2023. Multicycling in Brazil.
Coffee beans used on me __ kilo ___ grams.
I thought this was so clever and must have taken ages to put together. I wonder what the answers were?
Well that’s February done and dusted already. Have a lovely March everyone.
I’m joining in with a few challenges.
The Changing Season hosted by Brian and Ju-Lyn
and also Dan’s CFFC – Blue and…
PPAC by Natalie
This week’s theme is hands chosen by Stupidity Hole. I created a gallery below from photos from my archive.
“Remember you have golden hands. Whatever you touch turns golden. You give value to what you do and not the other way around“
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Off for our usual Sunday jaunt to a winery in the Swan Valley. We haven’t been to the Swan Valley for a while, preferring to go into the Perth Hills for the views. More wineries are located in the Swan Valley, along with restaurants, cafes and farm shops. We had lunch at Riverbank Estate overlooking the green vineyards. There’s a mediterranean ambience here, maybe due to the terracotta and limestone brick architecture.
The service and food were excellent. As it was a super hot day there were hanging water spouts squirting a cool mist over us.
On the way out I stopped to take a few photos of the decorative window frames.
Something for Monday Window!
Monochrome Madness this week is hosted by Sarah @ Travel with Me. The theme is the sea. I’ve been experimenting again with Canva, and made a couple of collages. It’s taken far longer that it should have again, I need to spend more time playing around with it.
I’ve recently been going to Cottesloe Beach for a quick swim in the morning. Always within the shark net! Below are some I took the other day. There are constant shark warnings, they don’t seem to bother so many people. I’m not so blase.
Thanks Sarah for an enjoyable challenge. I love all the wordpress challenges, they are good for looking back through your photos. They bring back long forgotten memories and also help clean up photo albums.
The challenge for Lens Artist this week is “Cats and Dogs” hosted by Tina. I’m not a cat person in any way at all and have never owned one. I’m always slightly wary of cats, you never know when they will strike. Give me a dog anyday.
I know the saying is “A Man’s Best Friend” but my two fur boys are also mine. Zac and Rufus have been with us for 9 and ten years. Both were adopted from rescue organisations. They were both apparently one year old when they first came to live with us. We think though that Zac was older and Rufus was younger. They love each other like true brothers and can’t do anything without the other.
I put together a small collage using Canva instead of uploading many different ones.
Rufus and Zac are so much part of our family, I can’t imagine living life without a dog around.
I’m running out of space for this blog and it’s so time consuming deleting old posts and finding the photos that are attached. Do I upgrade for more space or spend time deleting old posts and photos?
Debbie from Travel with Intent hosts One Word Sunday, and as you’ve probably guessed the theme is square this week.
A small gallery of squares, all squared away.
“Being a square keeps you from going around in circles.”
J. Vernon McGee
“I’m beat to the square, and square to the beat, and that’s my vocation.”
William Everson
Dan from No Facilities is now the host of this challenge, and this week the theme is ordinal numbers. I have to plead ignorance on this one! After good old google came to the rescue I began hunting through my photos.
I didn’t come up with anything much, maybe I wasn’t searching for the correct words.
I took these photos last year during a walk along the beachfront in Cottesloe. They were in preparation for Becky’s Geometric January.
