Port Willunga

Not sure how I did this but like the effect from the Iphone.

This is what happens when you turn 55

Everyone loved transforming themselves into a blonde diva at Al's birthday...especially the birthday boy.

Bodhi's first rowing race

Go Pembroke!

Shaez's in charge of the nuts

Market day again and enchanting as ever. Always an opportunity to run into friends.
Today I got to sniff a fresh truffle (mushroom) the size of a walnut and selling for $56.

Misanthrope

State theatre's first production for the 2011 season, a play by Moliere, entertained us all. 
"Alceste is a famous playwright disillusioned and angry with the hypocrisy, vanity and choking shallowness of the modern world. Vowing to reject society and to tell it like it is, his plans are derailed when he falls madly in love with Jennifer. An ambitious American film star and darling of the social scene, who proves to be his biggest challenge yet" 
Quite clever rhyming dialogue.

Art in the bush

Time's up for Katharina

With only a couple more days left

it's time to try to fit in

all that is Adelaide.
So a trip to Mt Lofty Summit
is definitely on the cards.

Yakka Yakka

Covered in bees

the zantheria spikes

are piercing the skies

Moonlight yoga

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Getting up at 6.00 am for dawn yoga is difficult, especially when it's dark except for a pale glimmering moon, but watching the yoga studio light up with the rising sun and listening to the birds wake is wonderful.

Because a heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers or wings, is it, for that reason to be of no account?
Jean Paul Richter

Does a caterpillar even have a heart?

Glamorous predators

These guys are driving me crazy chomping through my fuchsias until they kill them. I know I should love and respect all animals, but what about they respect my plants!!!!!

The Chubsters

Creativity exposed

This amazing dress (handmade and designed by Chris) has panels all with words that describe Shaez. What talent! The dress and numerous performances were evidence of that on Saturday.

How to travel the Silk Route & Central Asia by train | Train times & information

How to travel the Silk Route & Central Asia by train | Train times & information

Inspiration from Nelson Mandela to celebrate Shaez on the day of her 21st

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us: it's in everyone. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
— Nelson Mandela

The art of giving...and chatting

Despite her huge schedule and responsibilities at the Heart Foundation, Wendy still finds time to spend an hour or so at the blood bank donating her precious life blood...and having a good old catch up with her old mate (me).

Morality consists not in following the well beaten track, 

but in finding out the true path for ourselves and in fearlessly following it.

Mahatma Gandhi

Swimming carnival... giving it a go.

One of the things I love about Pembroke, or maybe it's just Bodhi's attitude, is the fact that everyone is encouraged to have a go...and they do. Whether they come first or last, no one is given a hard time. The atmosphere at the swimming carnival today was great and despite the seeming chaos, everything ran perfectly. Pity Smith only came 5th out of the 8 Houses. Oh well, it wasn't for lack of enthusiasm.

Botanic Gardens

Here Carl Linneus is enjoying the summer delights of the Adelaide Botanical gardens. 

Famous for developing "taxonomy," he named these....daisies.

 

“Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but peace amidst the storm”

Adelaide luckily dodged the storms that lashed Murray Bridge and the Riverland tonight. 

The clouds over the hills however still look ominous.