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While not exactly an untried theme for me, the sun has been setting as we take our "evening" walk these days. Beautiful sun. Beautiful dog. Can't help whipping out the camera.
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.
Eyes on the prize, Jasper wills his female human to toss the sheep already! (Yes, Christmas tree comes down this weekend ;-)
Oh no! The sky is falling! Oh wait a second, that's just the OddBall. Not to worry, Jasper leaped up and got it.
This shot was from a little while ago. But even last night when the temperature was still 105ºF (~41ºC), Jasper wanted to go outside and catch some OddBalls. Thank goodness that didn't last long
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Though it started out relatively cool on our visit to Boyce Thompson Arboretum on Sunday, Jasper took some pleasure in just remaining in the shadows and people watching with Jean as I flitted about photographing birds and lizards and whatnot.
Your standard three-step process for capturing a Chuckit that takes a wonky bounce. Some quick fun in the green space this morning before it gets too hot. I checked the temp yesterday when we took our 5:30PM walk. It was 111°F (~44°C), but just 9% humidity, so a dry heat. We made it a short walk.
First generation of a long line of the Generals Holden utes from the FX's n FJ's .. a real dinkum lot .
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Almost open, ready to face the world.
A fast growing and bushy plant to 2 metres tall, useful for informal hedging and screening, as well as for container growing. It has large mid pink lightly perfumed flowers throughout spring and summer. The flower petals are edible. Foliage is lightly furry. Waterwise and a low maintenance plant. Frost tolerant and can be used for coastal sites.
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A revisit to the terrible times massive bushfire ripped through my small township of Winmalee. This panoramic view is taken the morning after the fires in September.
It is all regenerating beautifully well at the moment and in a few years we will not even know there was a fire here except for the terrifying memories we will hold forever.
On a rainy day.
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As a Kangaroo bounds away, veteren loco GM43 stands at the head of a GWA rail train in the loop at Nantawarra while waiting for a cross before pushing back a couple of KMs to start unloading rail on 27-3-2017.
GM43 and GM37 have continued on as regular runners on rail trains for ARTC while the remaining units have now been in storage for almost 2 years now
We stayed at a dog-friendly hotel in Flagstaff over the weekend, Jasper claiming his bed immediately. He does seem to enjoy hotel stays. Funny how people react to Jasper. There was a large busload of teenagers staying at the same hotel. They were all waiting for something outside the hotel when we rounded the corner after our evening walk. We hear a chorus of girls going "AwwwWWW" when they saw Jasper. It was as if they rehearsed or something - in perfect unison and identical pitch. He got lots of pets on the head.
Not the most clever title ever written, but it seemed apt enough 😁. I always walk Jasper alone on Sunday mornings. And his pre-dawn Sunday morning walks have reduced from 3-4 miles (~5+ km) to about 1 mile (1.6 km) over the years. But the weather the past month has been just fabulous. So for about the last month or two, after getting home from the gym, I ask him if he wants to go for another walk. He jumps to his feet, affirming his desire. He's been taking me on about an extra 2 mile (~3.2 km) walk. I think he's turning into a "not a morning dog". At 5AM, he's like, "lets keep this short so I can get the rest of my breakfast and a little more shuteye." But at 9AM, he's like, "Chip chop, chap! We got some walking to do." A very long way to tell you that I often bring my camera with on the second Sunday morning walk, and this was from last Sunday.
Just posing on a bench at the Riparian Preserve. Missing our boy as we do the family visit thing in WI over Christmas.
Some fun of course :) But sometimes it seems for me he is taking himself for some kind of king :)
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At age 13.5, Jasper may not have the agility of a puppy, but he has the attitude of one. He still really wants us to engage in play after dinner. And of course we indulge him. Cuz he's a GOOD BOOOY!
A funky mesquite tree caught my eye so I asked Jasper to pose on our walk last night. Didn't get much of the tree in the frame, but Jasper was the real subject anyway 😉
Yesterday being Jasper's Gotcha Day, I was looking through some of the 43,000+ photos I have of him. This one made me laugh. He was just over a year old here. I love the look in his eyes and the angle of his back feet. And Pearl, the black-tri Aussie's spacey look seems so incongruous with the rest of the scene. Don't remember gray dog's name.
Jasper put Christmas Bear up on the couch and then rolled his eyes between me and my wife. Back and forth. Knowing that one of us would make a move. For the record, I was the one that made the first move, but I wasn't fast enough to get Bear away.