60/366 More rain
We have quite a bit of trouble with the water table in the area where I live. My next door neighbours in particular. This is typical of their roof after about 5 minutes of rain.
Month: February 2012
59/366 Footprint
When using computers, we often talk to students about their digital footprint. Many don’t know what it is, but once explained and show to them, they start realising that everything on the net is there forever.
But what about our footprints on the beach or in the wild? They also can stay there if we haven’t treated the natural world correctly.
58/366 Shades of blue
This is the view from my local beach. Now that I am retired, I hope to get into a routine of walking here every day. So far, I have done it twice, but not for exercise – taking photos instead.
57/366 May Gibbs
Many Australians will have read stories written by May Gibbs about Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, the gumnut babies. Well, I feel this is the sort of hat and hair worn by these characters. Maybe I will find some hidden in my garden.
56/366 Bookshelf
As part of my job with the eSchool is to create some global collaborative projects for primary school students and classes, I thought having a reading blog would be great. This year is National Year of Reading, so when I chose the theme for the blog, I needed to create a new header. I visited my old school to take some images of bookshelves which I could then use to create the header.
55/366 Who is sitting on my roof?
Came out of the local store the other morning and guess what was perching on my car roof? Had to stop and take a few images of this little fellow.
54/366 Who am I scaring?
Found a group of these scarecrows along the Tasman Highway between Sorell and Orielton. I think they were used as part of a festival held in the community earlier in the year.
53/366 Thinking Day
This photo is not one of mine but all around the world on this date, members of the Scouting and Guiding movements celebrate “Thinking Day” where they remember the joint birthdays of their founders Lord and Lady Baden Powell.
Image: ‘IMGP0399‘
52/366 Beer and cider
Tasmania has one very famous brewery – Cascade. Located in the foothills of Mount Wellington close to the source of the Hobart Rivulet, this is one of the oldest buildings in Hobart. The brewery began in 1824 by Peter Degraves.
51/366 Cells
I am extremely interested in the convict history of Australia, in particular of Tasmania. When on a visit to the Female Factory in the Cascades area of South Hobart, I shot this image of the cells at the factory. Many women were sent here after becoming pregnant when out on service to a land owner. Many babes died here.
50/366 Plane overhead
Where I live in Tasmania, is very close to the local airport. In fact, the road I drove to work on last year was directly under the flight path if planes headed south first before turning right or left to head north to the mainland of Australia.
49/366 Camouflage
This little parrot is so well hidden in the flowering gum. These are extremely noisy but they blend in so well and without a zoom lens are often hard to find. On a calm day, you see the branches move, hear their calls and can pinpoint them but still with difficulty.
