"Blue moon " for Brispaul :-))
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"Blue Moon" all the way from Pheonix Arizona..I Got a friend over there to get the shot as he has a much bigger lens than I....Thanks Ron!! It was too cloudy up here to get one...may try tonite from the beach as it comes up over the horizon
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"Saunders Beach Store" The owners are doing up postcards soon using my sunrises around a picky of their shop in the centre..a local did the artwork on the shop a couple of weeks ago.all of you avagoodweekend
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This is how bleak and murky it was today driving along the Ridgeway, and it's supposed to be Summer........ 

We came across these birds (sorry the picture is a bit blurred), who insisted on blocking the way. When we overtook one lot of birds, there appeared another bunch of them to block the way. Bless 'um.

Went out this evening, doing a bit of off-roading in the rain, as you do. 

Thank you

Thank you all for your kind thoughts and sympathy, I appreciate it.

I knew that Mom was near death, and I was preparing for it, but it still hurts when it happens. She was the best.

"Twirling the fire sticks" At a 50th birthday party on Saturday nite.
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"Happiness Is" Working the Bar on a Friday nite!! Wishing they would all go home early!!
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"The crazy friday nite crowd" and I have to serv this lot...avagoodweekend.
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"My Beachut" Hows this Kevin!!!
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"Good morning from our shop" In our tropical friday shirts...everyone wears them on fridays
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"Daffodil Day"
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Happiness is........

Happiness is ...... everyone tucked up in bed safe and sound.

Happiness is ...... driving along in the car, holding my husbands hand.

Happiness is ...... watching the Fridgeman on Pattycam.

Meet the Family

This is Duncan. My youngest son, he's 23, 5ft 4ins, and dead skinny.

"Ok I had a quiet blond moment"
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"Central Oz Phoon" oi oi oi Sorry just had to put one in!!
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HAPPINESS IS...........

Happiness is.....A big fuzzy cat snuggling up to you in bed, and purring like crazy.

'Red Skies" Last night at the creek
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"Success at Last...well sort off" I finally got bigpond to admit to major problems with ADSL...no I can sleep a bit better
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Athletes from Washington State in the Olympics

We have many Athletes from Washington State in the Olympics. Like Dr Jennifer Devine (Single Scull Racing) from Seattle, 13 former Rowing contestants from the University of Washington Huskies Rowing team (GO HUSKIES!), Tera and Dania Kirk (Women's Swimming Team) from Bremerton (where the Navel Ship Yards are) right across Puget Sound from Seattle, and Lance Bade (Trap Shooting) from Vancouver, Washington which is 120 miles (200 km) south of Seattle, just to name a few. GO USA! :D

BTW, Vancouver BC is about 150 miles (241.40 km) north of Seattle.

Gary

"My well worn Ugh boot" Maybe time to invest in a new one!! Paid $20.00 a pair...bit more now me thinks!!
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"Dragons Abreast" Yesterday we got up early and went into our Strand beach for a bit of outrigging..My wife Cathy has got involved...she is the one in the middle with the red top.There is a whole group of them out there. http://www.dragonsabreast.com.au/ The good thing is they all enjoy it ...even with the sore shoulders
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This little Robin, going about his daily routine, totally unaware there is anything called the Olympics.  

Hooray for USA

Michael Phelps claims the first U.S. gold medal in the swimming event at the Athens Games.

Cool Juneau

Here is a really cool web site. Pat Costello takes photographs of Juneau Alaska all year long. He has won awards and appeared in USA Today, National Geographic Adventure, Alaska, Alaska Airlines, Alaska Geographic, Gray's Sporting Journal, the Alaska Fishing and Hunting News magazines as well as the Juneau Empire, and many publications by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.

He has photographed the rare Spirit Bears, which is a albino Brown Bear that the native Indians reverie, and sought protection from the Alaska Board of Game for the Spirit Bear.

http://www.juneauphotos.com/display.image.asp?r=1039 (Spirit Bear)
http://www.juneauphotos.com/db/display-thumbs.asp
http://www.juneauphotos.com/index.asp?r=1435

"My Day" Begins about 6.00am..have an alarm clock that crows like a rooster..Jump out of bed..well (sort of jump out)Make a cup of coffee and grab the camera..kick cat!!! say gidday to budgie..get dog lead..and walk the dog to the beach..He has actually learnt to sit stll when I get ready to take a photo. After watching sun come up about 60 photos later it is time to wake up My wife and the kids..about 6.45am.Then another coffee and watch the news...kids are ready to go at 7.10am so I give them a lift to bus stop to await school bus.arrive at work at 7.30am..then start computer..yell abuse at Bigpond because nothing is working on the computer..Finally when it gets going I start logging on to work system,then Pattycam,check emails and blogger..then upload sunsets and sunrises to Buzznet site.Only allowed 10 a day so pick best 10 and scrap rest of them.Then my day has been full of learning new system...swearing at BIGPOND :-(( and listening to customers life stories...Oh no!! just missed the smoko van...ah well...theres allways dinner tonite..Then I shut down system at 4.40pm and leave for home..Drop into bottle shop to pick up some ah la coolabar top of the range dry red cask wine..Home at 5.00pm...kiss wife and kids..pat dog...kick cat..whistle to budgie..and tonite it will be have a wine then a shower and off to our community centre to open Bar at 6.00pm...Listen to all the beach life storys...have a meat raffle...which I never ever win,shut bar at 11.30pm and kick them all out at 12.00pm..should be in bed by 12.30pm then get up at 6.00am to kick the cat all over again ...so that is my day...now I gotta get back to work !!! :-)
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Here's another postcard that I thought was lovely. 

When Rob and I visited Australia, a couple of years ago, I tried to collect postcards from each place we visited. This was one of the postcards with these very colourful trees on it. I just thought it was really lovely.  

"Same Photo" Here is same photo the following year minus the leaves after a fire
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"The lone Chimney" I took this photo in a photo comp in 1995.. The photo comp was "A day in the life of Beaudesert Shire" Everyone recieves a numbered film on the Saturday morning and you have till sunday 3.00pm to take 24 photos.Every shot must count for max points..try it...very hard to concentrate that long.I want to do a similar thing up here but not sure how to do it with Digital cameras as we can all take 400 and delete 376...any ideas anyone :-))
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Perseid meteor shower

The Perseid meteor shower is tonight and tommorow night. Get your Umbrella out.

My travels with my Mom

Since 1972 to 2001, my mother and I traveled almost all over the world. We visited countries such as Antarctica (on a cruise ship), Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Botswana, Brazil, Canada, Caribbean Cruise, Chile, China, Columbia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Java and Bali Indonesia, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, Nepal, New Zealand, Norway, Panama, Peru, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Phew! that was a lot of typing. :D

create your own visited country map
or write about it on the open travel guide

Gary, this one is in Bath near Bristol, it's Bill and Ben the flower pot men,  

Salisbury Cathedral. 

One of the old gates. 

This horse drawn bus was quite a novelty round the town. 

When we visited Stonehenge, we also visited nearby Salisbury. Lovely old buildings. 

To Hot Again

It was 92 degrees Fahrenheit (33.33 degrees Celsius) today in Seattle. Yesterday during the Seafair Hydroplane races it was 80 degrees Fahrenheit (26.66 degrees Celsius) that is quite a jump in temperature in 24 hours.

"Me and my lovely wife Cathy" Hows this one Kevin..we had a bonfire Saturday nite..White cedar burns so well!!
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"Butterflys are free" yesterday in the garden..
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There I am, and there are the stones. That's just about as near as you can get. Well, perhaps a bit nearer when you get round the other side of it. 

This is as far as people could get to the stones. You can just see the rope fence.  

Anyway, while we were walking round Stonehenge, this just happen to be going along the road.