We all enjoy a paddle on a hot day! (Scatterday Challenge for January - Nature #2)

... not just humans :-))

Scatterday Challenge for December - "Sunrise / Sunset" #2

(Three years ago) as the sun set slowly in the west... we floated down the Nile on a felucca organised by Jenny.

Ahhhh.....

Scatterday Challenge for December - "Sunrise / Sunset" #1

This month, just because it's Christmas and she's a generous kind of gal, Di has given us two themes for our photos. The one for earlier in the month is Sunrise and Sunset, so get set for some of my favourite shots of God's handiwork.

Being more of an 'owl' than a 'fowl', I've seen more sunsets than sunrises. But this one was worth the early rise - (again delving into my treasure trove of recent holiday pics) - sunrise over the Sea of Galilee.

Enjoy!

Scatterday Challenge for October - "Broken" Mosaic

Scatterday Challenge October - "Broken" #2

This post could also be labelled "Life's Little Mysteries" because I found this broken and battered purse yesterday when I was cleaning away some of the creeping weeds on our front stone fence. Pulling the greenery away on the street frontage revealed a small crevice where a bag-snatching thief has obviously secreted this purse after removing almost everything from it - except for a 5 cent piece!

Scatterday Challenge for October - "Broken" #1

The tall, mature trees in our garden are a mixed blessing. Along with their generous shady canopy comes the inevitable steady dropping of old dead branches. Here's the jagged end of one of them.

Scatterday Challenge for September - Food #3

We had a big morning tea / lunch with friends one day last week, and I made pizzas - Weight Watchers pizzas. They looked wicked - but weren't!

Tomato and Cottage Cheese Pizza

Serves 6 - Points value per serve 2 1/2

Ingredients:

Cooking oil spray

2 Lebanese bread

2 tablespoons bought basil pesto

3 tomatoes, thickly sliced

12 drained, pitted green olives, halved

30g grated mozzarella cheese

250g Weight Watchers Cottage Cheese

12 tablespoons fresh parsley, finely chopped

Method:

Preheat oven to 180 degreec C.

Coat 2 oven trays with cooking oil spray.

Place bread on prepared trays and spread with pesto.

Arrange tomatoes and olives over each base.

Sprinkle with mozzarella cheese.

(I also sprinkled oregano on top)

Bake in oven for 8 to 10 minutes, or until golden.

Dollop with cottage cheese and sprinkle with the chopped parsley.

Cut into wedges to serve.

Scatterday Challenge for September - "Food" #1

Hardly one of the 5 healthy food groups, but nevertheless delicious and imparting a feeling of wellbeing.

Some friends gave us a HUGE bag of orange-covered chocolate balls today - more than I've ever seen in one bag! They looked so bright and inviting I simply had to capture their shiny lusciousness before I popped one (or two) into my mouth!

Scatterday Challenge for August - "Wet" #3 Mosaic

1. Cooling my feet in a pond at the Villa Borghese

2. Elephant bathing at the Singapore Zoo

3. Ranunculus after the rain

4. Wet horse track at the park.

Scatterday Challenge for August - "Wet" #2

Wet - or are they?

Not really an entry in the Scatterday August Photo Challenge, but I just couldn't resist sharing these photos I received in an email. Take a look at these amazing chalk drawings by Julian Beever, who has travelled all over the world creating jaw-dropping pavement art.

Using a technique known as anamorphosis he manages to give the impression of 3 dimensional objects when his chalk drawings are viewed from a particular angle.

Don't you just love this one? Happy landings!!! Not!!!!

Scatterday Challenge for August - "Wet" #1

Di is back from her travels and has set this month's photo challenge for the Scatterdaisies - Wet.

Scatterday Challenge for July - "Reflections"

The Scatterdaisies have spent July peering at lots of shiny reflective surfaces. Here is my collection of snapshots in keeping with our set theme - "Reflections".

1. As a lover of all things geek-worthy, I simply had to visit Sydney's new Apple store. Lovely buildings reflected in the metres of glass frontage - and the Big Apple, of course.

2. A really pretty tracery of winter branches in the window of a city building.

3. Detail of a statue of Jesus in Hyde Park, part of the World Youth Day displays. Covered in tiny shards of shattered mirror, it was aptly named "Reflection".

4. The sun glinting on Sydney harbour from the end of my street - a view that always lifts my spirits.

Scatterday - "Reflections" at WYD

This month's Scatterday theme is "Reflections"

Today I came upon this street art statue of Jesus, on display in Hyde Park as part of World Youth Day.

It is totally covered in tiny shattered mirror pieces.

The Scatterdaisies are back with new monthly photographic Challenges!

Di has issued the first of a new series of challenges for the Scatterdaisies who have been enjoying some R & R. The Challenge for June is "Frame Your View" and here are my 3 offerings.

I revisited my holiday photos from our European trip in 2005 and came up with three of my favourites.

This is the view through the French doors, looking out over the neighbouring olive groves from Angela's villa in Tuscany where we love to stay.

Now let's look through the arched window. This little Renault was parked in the garden of a fabulous Art Deco B & B at Corbie in Northern France.

So many young lives lost. This was the War Cenetery at Serre Road in the Somme region, row upon row of headstones.