Picture Perfect Winter Competition - Close to Home

Our two worlds meet.

Close to home the two worlds meet, the Eagles and mine.

This weeks Picture Perfect theme is the first of its annual Winter Competition. It starts with the
theme Close to Home to be followed by another set of themes over the following five weeks.



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For the rules of the competition 

http://fotofriday.multiply.com/

To enter the competition
http://fotofriday.multiply.com/journal/item/492/Picture_Perfect_Competition_1_Close_to_Home



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Backyard Photograhy - Something a little different

The Orb Spider
 







'God comes to us disguised as our life'



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Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.




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Love is for the Birds

"To the world you may be just another Lorikeet but to me you are the world"




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Backyard Photograhy - The nature of God

Nature as a Mirror

Scaley Breasted Lorikeets

Throughout his life in his interactions with creatures—including birds, a wolf, a lamb, worms, fish and bees—St Francis of Assisi is always telling them that by their very existence they are inherently giving glory to God. All things should be who they truly are, and that is enough. Every animal must simply “be itself.” Each creature has a unique thing to do in the circle of life, and in that simple performance it is giving glory to a unique aspect of God and making us happy besides.

Nature was a mirror of the soul for St Francis of Assisi - a Mirror for himself and a mirror for God. All this mirroring effected a complete change of consciousness, a shift in how he saw reality. When Francis was a young man, he loved to party. One night he left the paty and looked up at the stars above Assisi. He stood there a long time, in awe of what he saw. He said, "if these are the creatures, what must the creator be like"? The outer world began to name the inner experience and the nature of God for Francis. It all became a two-way mirror through which he could see God and also see his deepest soul.

Taken from reflections of
Fr Richard Ruhr.

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Picture Perfect - Inner Peace

Purrfect Peace

No earthly being does it better than a feline, when it comes to finding 'Inner Peace'

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This week the Picture Perfect theme is Inner Peace. Again I have little time 
to create a photo so resort to a photo taken on Christmas day of our cat
Phoenix in his 'Inner Peace' zone looking out on the day!!

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For the rules of the competition 

http://fotofriday.multiply.com/

To enter the competition
http://fotofriday.multiply.com/journal/item/490/Picture_Perfect_Inner_Peace_Theme

Picture Perfect - Celebrating 2012

Celebrating the First Moon for 2012

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No celebratory photos from me this New Year - bit boring but was my choice for 2012. A quiet relaxed escape from work was my ideal New Year this year - No celebration just a normal night with the following day of doing as little as possible - just things I wanted to do like photographing the moon and a bit of a play in the garden. It was a stunning sunny and perfectly clear day as the moon celebrated the New year out in the blueness of the afternoon sky.

For the rules of the competition 

http://fotofriday.multiply.com/

To enter the competition
http://fotofriday.multiply.com/journal/item/489/Picture_Perfect_Celebrating_2012

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The Galah

It is best to view this album in the slideshow mode to get its full effect!

Galahs are a pink and grey coloured cockatoo found in most areas of Australia. Galahs have the reputation of being somewhat of a pest or nuisance. But Galahs are actually a highly intelligent, social and highly adaptable animal. Galahs are one of the few animals that have benefited from the arrival of European settlers to Australia. The clearing of land and planting of cereal crops have really suited galahs. This led to the increase in galah populations, and the galahs expansion into every corner of Australia (helped also by the escape of pet galahs, especially in Tasmania).

Galahs were originally found to live only in the semi-arid areas of Australia. Originally galahs were recorded to live on the East Coast or Tasmania.

Backyard Photograhy - A Birds View

Man in the Moon



"I don't know it there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum'

George Bernard Shaw

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Backyard Photograhy - latest

If Only!

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778)



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While I was looking for the link above on Rousseau, I read this reflection, below, which I thought to share with you all.

But if there is a state where the soul can find a resting-place secure enough to establish itself and concentrate its entire being there, with no need to remember the past or reach into the future, where time is nothing to it, where the present runs on indefinitely but this duration goes unnoticed, with no sign of the passing of time, and no other feeling of deprivation or enjoyment, pleasure or pain, desire or fear than the simple feeling of existence, a feeling that fills our soul entirely, as long as this state lasts, we can call ourselves happy, not with a poor, incomplete and relative happiness such as we find in the pleasures of life, but with a sufficient, complete and perfect happiness which leaves no emptiness to be filled in the soul. Such is the state which I often experienced on the Island Of Saint-Pierre in my solitary reveries, whether I lay in a boat and drifted where the water carried me, or sat by the shores of the stormy lake, or elsewhere, on the banks of a lovely river or a stream murmuring over the stones.

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