What are your daisies in the lawn?

daisies!

I like daisies in the lawn. I must do, because I have lots of photos of them! These are near the doctor's surgery and I can't resist snapping them every time we visit. Aren't digital cameras amazing? Even when I don't have a camera with me I have a camera with me (my phone) and I take many photos of daisies in the lawn. What do you snap with your phone camera? I'm not sure whether daisies in the lawn are a feature of Melbourne footpaths only, or whether I just ignored them when I lived in Adelaide. Anyway, they seem to be everywhere this year and I love to take photos of them!

Self (and not)

Lol! I finally did it! A self portrait for the snappy friends challenge self. I think this is one of very few photos of me on the net. Oh! And blogger doesn't know what to make of it cause it has me sideways! (I think it's saying, "Really, should there be photos of fat white haired women on the net? I think not!") Couldn't resist adding the photo below. Miss 24 with her niece. Both sleeping peacefully yesterday. Granddaughter was just doing the 4 month old nap thing, but Miss 24 wasn't feeling well and had a nanna nap!

Something old - snappy friends challenge

We spent the last couple of days in Melbourne. I know! Everyone else was there last week when the craft show was on. What can I say? I guess I'm just not everyone else! I was pondering this weeks Snappy Friends challenge, "Something Old" outside the Melbourne Museum. You know they have a lot of old stuff in there, but I wasn't particularly inspired by it. When we got outside this tree inspired me. You don't get that big without being old!

Isn't it a truly amazing tree. (I know, there were lots, but I had a real affection for this one)

And a post.
And a house. I also went to "Meet me at Mike's" for the first time ever yesterday. Bought a book I had as a child. It was very cool there!

30 Days of the Everyday : No. 4

There's an awful lot of photo taking at our house. At the park you can hardly get a shot without someone else's camera getting in the way!

30 days of the everyday : No. 1

Washing Machine Panorama

I saw this over at Mikes and thought it would possibly be fun, and definitely be interesting to join in. Others who are planning to join in left comments, and now I know I'm weird! They talked about enjoying the sound of silence. It's just not me. I know a picture is worth a thousand words, but think just how much more valuable it would be enhanced with extra words from me! Washing is one of my everyday things. I love my washing machine. With 8 people living in our home it gets a real workout and never complains. Various segments of the washing are shared out between family members so it isn't a chore to me, which I am grateful for! The photo is a little small, but it is my first experiment with my "panorama" software!

A New Camera & Thursdayness

Yesterday the love of my life came in to talk to me and declared that the moment had come. It was time to go purchase my very own camera. It was a terribly thrilling moment. So it was off to JB's to buy the camera. It was such a thrilling moment that I got all stressed and had to go look at JB's large and varied DVD collection to calm down whilst Brad bought the camera. (That was my story & I was sticking to it!!!!) Then we made our way to the car where we opened the box and extracted the new camera. It even came with batteries! Which Brad put into the camera and then I started snapping. By the time we got home I had taken over 100 photos. What can I say? It's a great camera!!! In the photo above you can see what the best DVD shop in Adelaide looks like!

This is the drive home. I snapped and snapped and snapped all the way home. When I downloaded the photos from my camera to the computer today I noticed how dull and dreary the drive home looked! I'm not sure whether that is due to my photography skills or whether I just live in the middle of drabdom. I've never really had a camera of my own before and haven't really had much experience taking photos. I guess I'll get better at it! Whilst on the way home we stopped for fuel. So I even have a photo of the fuel pumps!

Now, for my Thursdayness. Yesterday Picklesticks went and felted all day with some girls from her textile course. She was so excited by what she had learned that she wanted to come over today and show me what she had learned. She also wanted to come over to my place and spin. Not because I'm a spinner and she wanted to use my spinning wheel, but because there is no room in her tiny flat for her spinning wheel so it lives at my house. We invited one of our spinning friends over to join in, so while they spun I knitted. I'm knitting a scarf for my girl who is overseas in the cold! It was a most relaxing day. Knitting is terribly relaxing. Must go knit some more.