Love

Sunday after church we stayed to socialise and have some coffee in the church foyer.  A young boy quietly walked up to my younger son and whispered to him: “Tag, you’re it!”.  The two of them then proceeded to walk really calmly to the hall.  As their feet left the floor of the foyer, the chase was on, with them laughing and calling out to each other.  It is amazing how seeing your child happy, can make your heart feel like it will burst with joy!

My daughter and I got the flu so we just sat quietly.  She went to fetch a biscuit, then broke it in half to share with me.

These photos are taken with my new studio lights.  It is so much fun to practice what we learn in class!    And my kids don’t seem to mind posing for me…

I will hopefully be updating  a bit more regularly.  The flu seems to be slowly going away.

After boys…

Life sure is different being home with the kids.  Maybe I am just around to notice the things they do more.  This morning I went to check on my youngest to see if she was ok (she was sleeping much longer than usual).  I found her sitting on the bed, putting clips in (on?) her dinosaur. 

“Look Mom!   They fit!”

When you have to say goodbye

The last two weeks have been a little chaotic.  The flu seemed to hit everyone in the house and on top of a lot of processing and photography work, the blog got a little neglected.  Then I got the sad news that my father’s brother had passed away.

He was a wonderful man with an immense love of nature.  I remember the stories my father told about his younger brother (a townie) being able to track better than the farm boys.  The adventures those two got up to as boys!  We learnt so much love and respect for nature from him.  He would take us out to parks and swamps, anywhere he could, and show us discoveries a child can only marvel at.  In spite of hard times, I remember the joy in his face when he would find animal tracks to show us, a new plant we haven’t seen before or a little creature we never noticed.

We will miss him a lot.

Rust

Studio sessions are exciting, mostly because I can’t practice artificial light every day.  It is great fun though.  This week’s brief was to photograph rust.   The gorgeous lantern I found in an antique store.

A Special Couple

Kosheila and Shashi are such a beautiful, young couple.  He can’t help grinning widely, every time he feels her eyes on him, often moving her hair to look into her eyes.  She still manages a serious face, until she catches his eyes, then the laughter just bubbles up!

  

I can’t wait to share in your wedding day! 

Stuff on the street

It is hard rubbish week.  Everyone puts out the big stuff they want to get rid of and sometime in the week, it gets removed.  I am always fascinated by the things put out.  There is a beauty to so much of it

There is something so sad about a broken guitar

 

A Flooded Friday

We are having REALLY unusual weather in Melbourne.  Friday night we wanted to go shopping (hubby needs new shoes), so we took a drive after he came home from work.  We didn’t go far before we couldn’t see a thing through the windscreen.  Thankfully we didn’t try to wait it out, we just went home.  That night we got record rainfall in the area. 

My youngest wanted to take a look at the rain, grabbing an umbrella and her gumboots for the adventure.  She was really excited to see the stream flowing next to our house (which isn’t there normally….)  I decided to check on the garage.  So glad I did!  The whole place was under water.  Some of the unpacked boxes had already collapsed onto the car.  Thankfully they were all filled with clothes, so no damage.  Hubby moved the car outside and we spent the evening moving wet, collapsing boxes into the house.  Well… it forced us to finish the unpacking we didn’t do during the move!  This was taken about 30 minutes later.  All the water had drained away again.  Check the black water line on the garage door in the back.

The next morning I took some photos around Narre Warren.  Lots of roads are closed still.  I suspect it will be a while before the sports field is usable again.

 

 

 

 

Click on the image to see a landscape photo of the whole sports area.

 

Even the Yarra river is very full!

I better get back to my washing.  A lot of those clothes got wet!