Saturday 19 November 2016

Dish ran away with the Spoon!



As I'm sure you all know, the moon has just recently been as close to the earth as it has been for 70 years, so there probably isn't a landscape photographer that didn't have their camera pointed skywards. Although it's nowhere near as impressive as you feel it should be! 



The same afternoon the moon was at its fullest, there was a brilliant sunset that cast the most gorgeous colours and I'm sad to say my photo didn't do it justice. 



These six photos (above and 5 below) are all from my phone! Technology is amazing isn't it!!





This is similar to the morning glories you find in the Gulf of Carpentaria, our peninsula here has similar wind currents although not quite so big! 

Venus is very bright at the moment. 

I have been trying to get a timelapse of the sun setting with the milky way coming through, but after hours of editing and arranging, I wasn't happy with the result! So here was one photo of the 170 I took! Oh well I will have to try again.

Super Moon Rising! 



Along with the super moon and venus rising we had a massive plague of these butterflies but the heat was intense and I didn't get out to take many photos while they were around! 


As I said in my last post, I had some leave to go to the Melbourne cup! Was nice to get out and be a lady for a day, although sometimes the day starts as a lady and ends less so. But I had a lovely day out all the same and didn't lose too much money on the ponies so that's always good. 



My gorgeous uni mate Ange with her handsome partner Jason.

Sarah, Me and Ange
But there is always more work to be done! So after a day of recovery on Wednesday it was back to work! 


Took Garrett's pony for a much needed ride to return some wayward heifers back to their rightful paddock.


Spotted this mob while I was out and about, I counted just under 50 Pelicans!! Unbelievable! I felt bad about disturbing them because it was half an hour later and they were still circling.



Our new strainer post!! No, not really, we ran out of time to finish the job we started so we improvised overnight! We discovered that the sandstone in this area is not far down, so we had to rethink our strategy! The next day with an added sprinkling of cement powder we managed to get our strainer post pretty solid! 
 
Replacing old wonky strainer with a new gate. 


Replaced another gate as the original had been pushed upward, so hopefully this one will stay put! 

With a steady weekend and taking advantage of hubby being home and not working, I took some time out for a long soak! Something I've not done since I was pregnant. Although I had to giggle that I opted for a cup of tea rather than wine and along with a good book, it was soooo divine! I'm reading 1421 by Gavin Menzie at the moment, it is an incredible book and if you like history at all it is well worth the read!







Dad and G-man chillin watching TV!

First hat!

Second Hat!

Third hat! 




I'm not sure what is so appealing about the bark in my pot on the verandah! Starting to think he may be lacking some nutrients (same as a cow eating a bone). Great mother I am, taking photos! The things I am able to keep in arms reach on my verandah are decreasing.




Having a bit of a play with some of my drone photos. I like this one, what do you think? What are you reading? Did you see the moon?