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Sometimes we overlook the obvious. I was reading a blog recently and the author had added an Instagram ‘widget’ to the bottom of her blog page. But SHE was smart enough to tell her readers about it. Not me. I added it about a year ago, during my 365 photo project, but don’t recall telling you about it. Silly me. Those of you who are not on Instagram can check my blog any time to see the latest photo I’ve posted to IG, if you so wish. I often use the same photos to illustrate my blog posts, but not always…so it may be of interest to you to check now and then. You’ll need to scroll all the way to the bottom of the page, passed the comments, to see it.
One of the more recent photos I’ve posted on IG was a little gift I discovered one morning while sweeping the leaves from our breezeway. It was the most charming little collection of local objects, delivered right to my front door (literally) by the prevailing winds.
The red bits of fluff are from the Callistemon, or bottlebrush trees, that have been flowering. The Eucalyptus leaves, are, of course, very prevalent in our area. The large feather is from one of the small honey eating birds that frequent the garden, and the small green feather is from a Port Lincoln Parrot. The other bits of fluff and seeds are from various native grasses and lilies that we have in the garden…and all of it collected by an opportunistic cobweb, probably a failure if it was intended for insects, but a definite success for a photographer.
Regardless of your political interests, I hope you are having a good week.
(Instagram: @amosthemagicdog)
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Awakening form a ‘Trainwreck Tuesday’ in the US, it is rather hard to disregard the words of one of my favourite, most intelligent and able Australian politicians, Bob Carr, about the ‘political nervous breakdown’ experienced there. Oh, no doubt, THEIR business were it not to affect the rest of the world so dangerously. Lovely gentle piece of logic from you . . . . well, my October blogbreak has just come to pass until I get up, brush myself off and ‘start all over again’! There is much more anger in me than in any ‘white rural male without a college education’ in the US !! On the ‘humorous’ side: Australia does not have any college education 🙂 !
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Yes, the world is nervous, and I see there are demonstrations in the US, like in the UK after Brexit. My husband and I have noticed there are two sets of skills needed in politics, the ones that win you the election, and the ones that enable you to govern. It will be interesting to see if Trump has the second set of skills now. The world is watching.
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Which ‘skills’ Ardys? 🙂 !!! Not paying legal tax and boasting about it!! Being three times bankrupt? Failures like the ‘Trump Airlines’, ‘Trump Beverages’?; Trump Casinos ?; Trump Tower Tampa [eg, naturally he just sold the name and did not build it as in a number of cases around the world!!]; Trump ‘University’?; Trump vodka: . . .etc ad infinitum . . . except now he is not dealing with the moneys he got from his father, but those of the US taxpayer . . . the world naturally is watching and the US Republican Party which has never accepted him will attempt to control, but if 95% of what he has spouted had been possible, it would have been done by his predecessors! With some class and style . . .
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Magical! You’re sooo good!
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Thank you! You are sooo kind! xx
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I find this image almost magical, and I first saw your post yesterday but didn’t take time to respond. I was both surprised and dismayed at the anger and hatred spewed all over social media and in our streets. I looked at your lovely image again this morning, knowing this is the beauty I find each time I venture to the orchard and woodlands, foraging for the deer. That image is a collection of discards brought together by a thin web. I’m pretty sure not one of those items chose to be swept up in a tangle nor did they choose to put themselves next to other oddball and nothing in common items. Yet there they are, beautifully entwined. Ardys, this image spoke to me of great depth – of the moment, here in the US. While others considered yesterday a “trainwreck”, I did not. The train has been careening off the tracks here for decades. I am full of hope… and yes, there is much on the plate of our government to show us we can unite as a nation, and come together for the good of all – our country and our place in the world.
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You are the second person to refer to this web arrangement as ‘magical’. There is something so serendipitous about it, but beautiful, as in our multicultural societies. I have learned not to let my ego get caught up in election outcomes (mostly) and to wait and see what happens. The outcome is almost never what people expect, either bad or good. I’m waiting and watching, and hopeful. Thank you Lori.
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The web and the wind. What a gentle arrangement, the pastels so well combined with the petals of red. Art in nature is a wonderful thing.
After the sad news of that most loathesome man’s success in the US, and the shock of it all, I have turned off and returned to the simple things around me. It is nice to know that it couldn’t happen in Australia- no one of that ilk would be permitted to continue to speak such nasty nonsense. Are Americans embarrassed? For many, it appears not.
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Of all the people I know who did not vote for Trump, yes, they are hugely embarrassed and shocked. It is an odd situation that Clinton could win the popular vote but lose the election. We are sick of hearing about all the speculation and wait to see how the situation plays out. Thank you Francesca, I’m focusing on natural beauty to salve my psyche.
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The only way to go under the circumstances.
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