Sunday, June 28, 2015

Full Moon July 2nd

›
Okay, mother really bad this time. She had a shower last week and they had to rush her back to bed and oxygen. This is the longest time sh...
9 comments:
Saturday, June 13, 2015

How much renewable energy could we have by burning redundant politicians, 'let them eat cake' Hockey could burn for years!

›
On Thursday, Prime Minister Tony Abbott used primetime radio to boast about cutting clean energy, calling wind farms "visually awful...
10 comments:
Tuesday, June 09, 2015

It seems like yesterday.

›
Mt St. Helens under a layer of snow, towering above  Spirit Lake, just the place for a holiday of camping and hiking.  35 years ago, just...
12 comments:
Sunday, May 17, 2015

Let's talk

›
Fitzroy Island on the Great Barrier Reef. New research into early Aboriginal stories set along Australia's coast has detected e...
12 comments:
Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Why didn't I think of this?

›
I loved this idea but it would not do for our giant native birds like magpies and ravens.  The Mynah birds would give them a decent whack...
10 comments:
Tuesday, May 12, 2015

The right place, the right time.

›
The Sky from Mauna Kea Image Credit & Copyright: Shane Black Photography; Rollover Annotation: Judy Schmidt The volcano is the Hawaii...
3 comments:
Monday, May 11, 2015

Whistling 'Mack the Knife'

›
This shark is 4.5 metres long and it has teeth not to mention just a bit of blood smearing from the last kill. If I had been the pho...
4 comments:
Sunday, May 10, 2015

What's the point, if not cake!

›
Mothers Day, a day for mothers and what happens, the Cake Fairy loses my address again, probably pissed from visiting all those other mot...
4 comments:
Wednesday, May 06, 2015

Twenty-Five thousand dollars a ticket entitles one to look like a tit

›
This is the gown Annie O mentioned yesterday.  Rihanna is dragging it along and giving every punster on Facebook the delight of a lifetim...
5 comments:
Tuesday, May 05, 2015

Wintour says "No selfies at Met Gala"

›
Next year perhaps Anna  Wintour might say bring classy dressing, leave showgirl trash at home.  One journalist excused Jennifer Lopez'...
8 comments:
Sunday, May 03, 2015

Just another episode

›
Before I start with the ranting and you don't want to read about my pain and family, focus on the jewellery.  Now this is the kind of ...
6 comments:
Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Amethyst by Mother Nature

›
JEAN VENDOME DIAMOND, AMETHYST, STALACTITE, CRYSTAL, STERLING SILVER, 18K YELLOW GOLD NECKLACE Cascading down the left side are seven ove...
4 comments:
Thursday, April 23, 2015

And I blew my top as well

›
Cabulco volcano in Chile has erupted for the first time in nearly fifty years.  20 kilometres straight up and that is the dangerous part....
5 comments:
Sunday, April 19, 2015

There's something about owls

›
This is a Banded Owl from Sumatra and is that a face of authority and wisdom or what?  I fell in love with the eyes, snappy looking beak ...
5 comments:
Saturday, April 18, 2015

Regular posts will resume when I get over these

›
. I was browsing through wedding cakes for no particular reason except that I love wedding cakes but these three could turn me against we...
4 comments:
Thursday, April 16, 2015

Fossils (not me)

›
These are Petoskey stones, a rock and a fossil of a coral called Hexagonaria percarinata which flourished during the Devonian period. They...
5 comments:
Wednesday, April 15, 2015

I meant to post something serious.

›
But I was sidetracked by glittering things like these glass beads by Masae Nakahara.  I tried to find out about the artist but pages tran...
11 comments:
Monday, April 06, 2015

Did someone mention Penguins?

›
I really don't care if this is photoshopped because I couldn't stop smiling at the penguin riding the waves on a dolphin.  I got ...
4 comments:
Saturday, April 04, 2015

Ocean cute

›
Another cute (almost) photo and this is the banded piglet squid (Helicocranchia pferreri).  Its name comes from its rotund shape and no...
7 comments:
Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Another gem.

›
A real gem, honest.  This little diamond encrusted brooch is actually an Alaskan Wood Frog which becomes an froggy ice block during the f...
3 comments: