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Some belated postings from Jan 26 (Australia Day). This is a national holiday and the weather was perfect so i set out on my bike to take some shots along the coast. This shot is taken from the Mullaloo lookout and looks South over Key West Beach towards Mullaloo Beach. It is rare to see our beaches this crowded. Normally there would be far fewer people. In the distance you can see all the yachts and recreational craft at Pinnaroo Point Beach. I love this series of shots as I believe it captures the lifestyle well on these beautiful sunny days.
"Come on guys! Playtime isn't over until I say it's over", claimed Jasper, offering up Geri Giraffe as a way to entice us to play. Which of course we did.
I think it's just so darned cute when he uses the arm of the couch as a pillow. This is fairly typical as an evening draws to a close. We have a big L-shaped couch. I'm usually falling asleep on one end of the L and Jasper is doing the same on the other end. Jean in the middle, awake and finishing a show on TV.
Jasper agreed to do a nice pose for me as the sun started to rise behind him early one morning at the riparian preserve.
An old Bushells tea tin ... worn around the edges , seen better days and a bit rusty ..
A bit like me I feel .. an ole Aussie with some colour .. Not in a tin yet .
FTP . Brisbane
Jasper just caught the Oddball by the seam on the corner. Still counts as a catch though. Still righteous! At 12.5 Jasper still has quite a bit of energy. We don't play as long anymore, but we still play quite a bit. Nothing like some backyard Oddball action to keep the body young.
Jasper and I were on the floor playing with Wuffy when my wife said something. Full stop on the play. She must have said something like "food", "treat", "sausage". Something yummy.
We had taken a toy to a greenspace close to our home. And despite it being 104F (40C) Jasper had plenty of energy to run around and taunt us, defying his 13 years of age.
Sometimes on Sundays we walk through a business park near our home. Jasper likes to act like he owns the place. A dog can dream...
Well, Ceph has completely lost his mind, his brains in a basket, his head completely deflated. (Ceph is an Octopus stuffed toy). All the king's horses and all the king's men will never sew Ceph back together again. Makes no diff to Jasper though. The now mindless Ceph is just as entertaining as the day we got him
One of my favourite things about living in Australia is the variety of colourful birds.... Rainbow Lorakeets are plentiful, and are very well named....
Echo and Jax both like to nap against the doors - guessing there is nice cool draft that they are happy to block. On a totally side note, Echo's daddy, Grizz, is at Westminster Dog Show and got his pic in USA Today! Woohoo!
We've been away for a week in Wisconsin. Flying home to pick up our buddy, Jasper, now. Can't wait to have this offer of play again
Those that follow this site regularly will know I'am usually uploading sunrise and predawn shots of late , but here's a SOOC sunset from a few days back . No iconic native bird silhouettes sadly included .
The reverse of the day at the start .
Sunset Drive
Kenmore
When I was young, maybe around 7 or 8, riding in a slightly older 1948 FX Holden, I always got excited any time I saw the good old Peters Ice cream cone high up in front of a milk bar or corner store. At night, they were even lit up from within and looked wonderful. On seeing one of these, it was closely followed by intense pestering of my Dad to pull over and buy a treat, like an icy pole or a bag of cheese Twisties. Sometimes it worked!
This sight would be familiar to many older Aussies, with the 1960 FC Holden pulled up at the petrol bowser of a general store and Milk Bar. These old places often sold almost everything, and sometimes incorporated the Post Office too.
In this case, this is an old store front belonging to an antique dealer in Killarney, Victoria, not far from Warrnambool. The current owner also told me that the original milk bar here had been used by the Ford Motor Company in an advertising campaign in 1973.
Always happy to see any sign declaring ice cream to be a health food!
It is of course, a forced perspective shot of my 1/18th scale model 1960 Holden FC parked in front of the old store.
Today, January 1st, is Jasper's gotcha day. He's been with us for 12 years. I thought this photo pretty much sums up Jasper. It was Gotcha-Day Eve yesterday and he refused to go on his after-dinner walk. He wanted to PLAY. So play we did. Geri Giraffe was his toy of choice yesterday. She's one of Jasper's Christmas gifts.
Some belated postings from Jan 26 (Australia Day). This is a national holiday and the weather was perfect so i set out on my bike to take some shots along the coast. This shot is of a yacht moored only metres from shore at Ocean Reef. Its a very quite spot as the beach cant be legally accessed by foot. I have a few more shots of this yacht It looked beautiful moored in this peaceful little bay. I think there were 2-4 people on board. You can see the blue water, the recreational craft in the distance and the people enjoying the water and lifestyle on the yacht. I love this series of shots as I believe it captures the lifestyle well on these beautiful sunny days.
Thought it was funny the way Jasper's two front paws were sticking out at almost a right angle to his body as if in some sort of prone dance move. Note the frisbee between his paws. If the humans do make a move, they're not getting the frisbee without a fight ;-)
And so it goes. We take a ball with us on the evening "walk" these days. It lets us concentrate some fun & exercise into a few minutes so we can get out of the 105F+ (40C+) heat and back into our air conditioned comfort. Shot blind with camera in the grass with Jasper's priority clearly on chasing that ball again, not posing for photos.
Not much outdoor play this time of year. Our daytime highs are typically around 110º F (43ºC). That's normal for summer in the Phoenix area, so I'm not complaining. But it does mean we spend more time indoors in the air conditioning. But I wanted to try some action shots with my new camera so we ventured out for a few minutes.
It was a gorgeous day here today. Sunny skies and 75F (~24C). So we were looking forward to Jasper's walk after his dinner. Jean has a break until after the new year and I'm retired so we were all going to walk as a family. But we got across the street and Jasper stopped and looked back towards our house. "Come on Jasper! Don't you have to poop or anything?" A few steps more and he's pulling us back towards the house. He wanted to play in the worst way. So into the back yard we went and played with OddBall, Frisbee and as you can see in this shot, Moosey. He was having so much fun, his jaw was quivering. We love our old boy and his passion for play.
Jasper knows how to pour on the guilt with his sighs and mournful looks. But he gets plenty of play. Last night I went up to bed a little earlier than Jean and Jasper. As I'm reading in bed, I hear this on-going monologue / dialogue between the Roger Rabbit (voiced-over by Jean) and Jasper. In his typical cartoon voice, I hear Roger say, "Come on, man! Do a brother a solid and get off my chest so I can jump". Haha, 'do a brother a solid'. I had to laugh. The play continued at least until I drifted off to sleep. Lucky boy.
Aussie 324 Arriving from Stansted to uplift Prime Minister Scott Morrision and delegation following their attendance at the COP26 Climate Conference,
Royal Australian Air Force
Airbus KC-30A (A330-203MRTT)
A39-007
Glasgow Airport, Scotland
2nd November 2021
Cairns, Queensland, Australia These are fruit bats. Unlike most other bats they do not use echolocation to find food. They are nocturnal and have large eyes to spot food in low light. www.environment.nsw.gov.au/topics/animals-and-plants/nati...
This is a male Helpis minitabunda, known for their bold and fearless behaviour as can be seen here. Looking directly upwards.
Also commonly known as threatening jumping spider and bronze jumping spider.
Around 10 mm body length.
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A photo I took a few years ago in Victoria that I have just processed.
I have seen lots of storm clouds like this during our recent coastal holiday!
Explored #82
Many older Australians will be familiar with this car. It was a very popular model made between 1958 and the year of my birth, 1960. This is the General Motors Holden FC. Price brand new back then was around 1,100 pounds depending on the model variant. Powered by a good old straight six of about 2.2 litres capacity.
This is a 1/18th scale model made by a company called Classic Carlectibles who specialise in Australian models, and is one of just 800 or so that have been released of this particular model. They make many older model Holdens and Fords, and as model cars go, they are very high quality with all doors opening and working steering and suspension. I love this one for the wonderful detail, right down to the hubcaps in glorious chrome, and even the tyre valves.
This is the "showroom" shot taken inside under LED lighting and is a ten image focus stack taken on the Canon RP using the 35mm macro lens. Processed in Canon DPP4.