3 posts tagged “walk”
i am pleased to say, i have wasted just about the entire day. i count this an achievement.
this morning i woke up late and discovered that - at 11am - the frost was still thick on the ground, so how could i resist? i bundled up and went for a walk down to the park. what a perfect winter's morning - the sun was bright, the sky was blue, there were birds and squirrels and little yappy dogs all over the place and it was quite quite perfect. see?
i found my old slr film camera among our boxes, my canon eos500, so i've been having a play and giving it a trial run to see if i feel it's worth taking it back to the uk with me. i probably will - i suspect my poor little sony dsc-v1 may be on its last legs, thanks to an heroic effort to capture a magnificent wave in wales which then drenched both it and me. and now the lens cover doesn't close any more. oops. i'm going to put it in for a service when we get home, but i thought it might be worth digging out the eos500 to see if i can produce some decent photos with it, now that i've experimented a bit with composition, macros etc. i'm still a bit hazy about the manual options, but it always made nice photos for me in the past, so i took it out on tuesday when my mama whisked me off to lavender bay to see wendy whiteley's beautiful garden.
wendy whiteley is the widow of the great australian artist brett whiteley, and the garden isn't officially hers - it was railway dump land which happened to be right by their house, and over a period of years she just started building a garden on it and fortunately the railways didn't object and apparently helped to remove some of the larger bits of junk, such as old train carriages. now it's the most fantastically beautiful garden, hidden away down near the water (if you're looking for it, you go down the steps in the pedestrian side of walker street in lavender bay - i hunted all over google trying to find where it was, and couldn't find an address anywhere. in the end we drove around where we thought it might be and eventually found a gallery which had someone who could tell us where it was!) with scattered benches in quiet spots, lovely secluded paths and the most wonderful random bits of junk transformed into sculptures. very inspirational.
photos to follow, when i finally get them processed... grrr film :-)
i know everyone else has already posted about the marvellous snow we had yesterday, but it took me about 4 hours just to push 6 photos through photoshop, so i'm a little late.
we hadn't heard any weather reports at all, so it was a complete surprise to us. djelibeybi woke me up, then tottered over to the window and obviously woke up himself with a start and said "There's SNOW!!!!" at which of course I shot out of bed and we both got terribly excited and started hurling on multiple layers of any clothing we could find and grabbing at cameras, first snapping from inside...
then gradually making our way out into it.
But I never imagined it could be so very beautiful - it was like a Christmas card, and the snow itself was so light and fluffy - when you picked it up it was like cold (but not particularly bitingly cold) fairy floss, but without the stickiness. Absolutely perfect for snowballs. And yes, we did experiment with this :-)
I'm quite glad we don't have any more today - for the purely selfish reason that I need to go into town and hand-deliver my spnm shortlist application and meet up with the minion and the world's best ex-boss for coffee - but it would be nice (again for purely selfish reasons) if it did it again tomorrow :-) And at least we haven't gone the whole winter without any wintery weather at all, which was what we seemed to be heading for before yesterday. Hurrah!
