Month: February 2014

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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge-White

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My contribution for this week’s

White Subjects

Challenge

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The garden provided me with photos for my challenge this week.

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Cee’s Fun Photo Challenge: White

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Wordless Wednesday-Duck

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Truly a Wordless Wednesday.  The picture says it all.

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I should have used it earlier.

 

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Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday (create-with-joy.com)

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Craftyspices.com_Wordless Wednesday

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Travel Theme-Work

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My Work Travel Theme for this week.

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I was tossing up about what to use for the challenge, this week…

carwash_0462so when the car wash began to work its magic…

carwash_0463I thought that a few photos from within the car… 

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of the car wash at work made sense.

carwash_0465The rinse cycle…
carwash_0467is part of the Weekly Theme, Threes Challenge this week

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Where’s My Backpack?: Travel Theme: Work

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Weekly Photo Challenge-Threes

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My contribution for this week’s challenge…

Threes.

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My first two Threes are re-posts but I think they fit this challenge

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These photos tell the story of what happens to strangers, particularly small ones,

enter our backyard.

three_2Both canines were pleased to see the fence…but for very different reasons! 

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I thought this was a good three…not sure if it fits the challenge.  But hey!  I like  living dangerously.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Threes

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A-Z Challenge-GG

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My GGG Challenge this week

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Three random Gs for this week’s challenge.

game_0418This may look like an other motel, in fact it is the Kempton Park

Game Lodge

in Johannesburg

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ginger_0072Ginger my faithful friend and ‘guard’ dog looks half asleep in this pic.

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flower_0528aMostly Gerberas.  If there are any other flowers in this arrangement that begin with G they have been lost on me.

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GGG-challenge

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A Word a Week Photography Challenge–Atmospheric

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My contribution for this week’s

 Word of the Week Challenge…

Atmospheric

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Growing up on a farm meant Dad always his ‘weather eye’ on the barometer around shearing, cropping, lamb marking and all those other weather dependent activities.

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This was Dad’s barometer.

Some of my earliest memories are of Dad giving the glass face a whack with his knuckle as he passed it in the morning.  A quick look would provide him with all the information he required about forthcoming atmospheric conditions.  I don’t think the morning knuckle whack caused the cracks in the glass.  This barometer is from the 1950s, maybe even the 1940s and is calibrated accordingly.

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MGW gave my first very own barometer/weather station.

This new fangled barometer also included a thermometer and a humidity gauge.  However, with one or two parts going missing before, or during, moving  house it was decreed not suitable for our new house.

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barometer_0477So it was, a few years ago, that MGW gave me a new weather station which measures all the atmospheric conditions needed to be known on a daily basis.

Barometer in the middle, temperature to the left and relative humidity on the right.

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 A WORD A WEEK CHALLENGE–”Atmospheric” 

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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge-Orange

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My contribution for this week’s

Orange Subjects

Challenge

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We were asked to accompany Number 1 son furniture shopping this morning.

 Forgot to take my camera, or phone, but all twenty some-things are equipped with a phone and he took the furniture photos for me.

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I have never seen so much orange in furniture shops before.

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sunset_0350I may be stretching the colour here….have never been really good with shade.

sunset_0351I hope everyone with normal eyesight agrees there is a touch of orange in these sunset shots.  If not, too bad!  My eyes say there is some orangish tones.

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Now for my pièce de résistance.

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Last week there was a news item, on Australian TV, relating to a pace car at a USA race track, which caught fire.

It was an Australian made car…the same vintage as this car, as a matter of fact.

Unfortunately General Motors, and all other car manufacturers have announced they are ceasing to make cars in Australia.

Rather sad when our cars are being exported.

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car_0429The “General” has been making Holden cars since the late forties, early fifties.

This is a Holden Commodore, SV6.

Just not sure if it qualifies for the challenge as it is not orange.

The colour is ‘Fantale‘.

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Cee’s Fun Photo Challenge: Orange

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More photos from this site at this week’s Which Way Challenge 

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There’s a lagoon, at the end of this track, which I have driven past many times.

Today, I decided it might make a good place to take a few shots for

Cee’s Fun Photo Challenge.

whichway_0434Also managed to take a few Which Way shots as well.

whichway_0435I’m a sucker for old gum (eucalyptus) trees.  I think they are beautiful.

whichway_0437You can just imagine young fishermen, or weary travellers,

having a break and a chat at this picnic table.

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Floral Friday-210214

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Floral Friday Challenge.

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Mt Sheba colour this week.

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This is an old-fashioned fuchsia which we had many of at our  previous home.

Unfortunately, focus was not quite right.

So, I used Picasa’s Heat Map effect to convert it into, I think,

an acceptable image.

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Floral Friday

Floral Friday

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Thursday Lingering Look at Windows-Wk-08

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Among Geelong’s older buildings and architecture of a bygone era…

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we find buildings constructed in the last decade, or so, with completely different look.

I daresay most cities have similar buildings, areas where the older city is making way for the new.

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Thursday Lingering Look at Windows Wk-8

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