14/21 Weather
Many of the southern states of Australia have been hit by a heat wave recently. Luckily not so much in Tasmania, but our skies are still showing the effect from fires in the state.
Author: Miss W.
I was a middle school teacher who retired in 2011 but still loves helping others. In my spare time I enjoy tracing my family history and volunteering at local library to help others with their genealogy as well as chatting with my friends around the world. But most of all, I enjoy travelling and visiting new places.
14/20 New life
Late last year I had a tall eucalypt cut down completely. I have just noticed new life sprouting from the remains. Wonder if it will grow tall or will it have many trunks?
14/19 Follow the leader
Every year we have families of ducks appear on our street. Some neighbours feed them despite council signs on the road. The ducks live on the local golf course and near the creek. All traffic stops when the ducks are moving across the road.
14/18 Camkids
This is my friend Moya who spends a lot of time in Cambodia helping her brother and his wife, who run an orphanage for kids. It is part of the Camkids organization at Camkids.org Moya had some students draw some wonderful pictures of life in Cambodia and now their artwork is up for auction today.
14/17 Early pickings
Up early this morning to water the veggie garden and pick peas, beans and strawberries before the day heats up to 38 Celsius.
14/16 Family history
While my car was in for service, I walked down to the Maritime Museum. Read a thesis on whaling written in 1989 with lots of sources and an index of people. My great great grandfather was in the list. So I read about him and wrote down sources to find at the state archives. Had lunch while walking to the archives (uphill) then four hours checking microfilms. Found a log book written about a whaling voyage where my relative was commander of the ship. Allowed to take digital copy of all 80 pages of the log. Will read once I get more time.
14/15 Love zooming now
These are hanging off the end of my new beans. Presume it is the remains of the flowers. But it zoomed well.
14/14 Beeing close
Trying out the zoom again, I was about 50cm away from the bee and used ItZooms again, got a great shot of the bee on the leaf.
14/13 My rhubarb
Think I might have used too much rhubarb and not enough crumble. Well, time for the taste test. Yummy, think I will make it again.
14/12 Another close up
Tried ItZooms again this time ordinary colours and zoomed about 3 times. Curled fern fronds, now my ipad is covered in little dots of spores or dust.
14/11 Try something new
Sent out a tweet last night about ipad apps for close up photography. Penny, Jenny and Fiona came back with some options. I also did a search for others. So today I tried one called ItZooms. It also allows you to invert colours. I was sitting on the couch in my lounge room, looking through the fly wire door to the car tyre about 4 metres away. This is the result.
14/10 Grow anywhere
Grape vines will grow around anything that comes in their way, even the leg of a trestle table out near my garden.