Showing posts with label Clouds. Show all posts
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Weekend

Saturday 10th September - Bestie


I woke up feeling better this morning and just did a few things around the house.  I was invited to a BBQ at a friends house today and I haven't seen them in ages so it was really nice to visit.  My beautiful bestie and her crazy kids came and picked me up and we spent the afternoon drinking coffee and wine, eating yummy food (mmm noodle salad!!) and hanging out with lovely friends.  This photo is of Tina - I love how relaxed she looks with the sun shining on her.  I have also posted my second fav photo of the day - this is Tina's daughter Jemima and she kept trying to run me over on the bike as I was taking photo's of her - you can see how cheeky and mischevious she is!


Sunday 11th September - Sunlight

Caught up with my Nan and my Mum today - I didnt' end up taking a photo of them though, probably should have but we were just having a nice relaxing lunch. Before lunch I went out into the yard and took some photo's of the sun streaming into my yard through another wind chime (yep I'm a fan).  I also took stacks of photo's of clouds today - will have to post on another day


ciao donna

Sunday, August 28, 2011

Days 26-28 Friendship & Food

So it's nearly a month since I started this crazy project and during the week I totally struggle with it, but on the weekends I love it as I get to take photo's of my friends and favourite things.  I'm writing this post Monday afternoon and I'm going to group the whole weekend together as I didn't actually take that many spectactular photo's but they are all a bit of fun.

Friday Night (26th August 11) was girls night - every couple of months all my old high school girlfriends get together for Indian Dinner and copious amounts of wine.  Not many of us still live in the area but we always try and meet up in Hornsby as it is kinda central (except for the Queenslanders) and most of our families still live in the area so we all have somewhere to crash after a few vino's!!!  I am so blessed to still have a wonderful group of girlfriends who know you so well and who you can pick up a conversation with at any time no matter how long since you last saw them.  Tonight's dinner was in honour of Stacey visiting from Qld and also to plan our 40th Birthday Adventure - yep it's looming and we are going to go away for a weekend to Party.  It was lovely to see everyone and we had a brilliant night, laughing, sharing stories about our families and love lives, and planning our weekend away and of course a few of us ended up partying at the RSL afterward (that's 3 weeks in a row for me and I'm far too old for this lifestyle!!!).  Today's photo is of 3 of my closest friends, Tina - my bestie, Sasha and Tracy-Lee taken at the RSL during Pre-Dinner Drinks.  I did take some photo's of all the girls but they are really crap - hopefully Tina's worked out better than mine did.

Saturday (27th August 11) - I woke up sick - not just hungover sick but bronchitis/ tonsilitis kind of sick - I had no voice and felt like crap with a filthy cough.  Tina and I had stayed over at her Brothers house and after a few hours playing with the kids trying to get the motivation to move, we went out for breaky with her sister in law to her favourite cafe.  This photo is of my gorgeous coffee - isn't it pretty - and some pineapple juice to soothe the throat.  It was a crappy photo so I put some effects on it to make it look better - however I didn't really take many other photo's as I spent the entire day on the couch and had a super early night to try and feel better - so this is it for today.

Sunday (28th August 11) - Spring is coming - you can feel it in the air which is brilliant as I HATE winter. I was up early for a Sunday which was good - still feeling average but decided to treat myself to a yummy breaky of french toast, strawberries and coffee, I downloaded a new app on my phone this morning which let's me take crazy action shots and had a bit of fun playing with it - hence the double photo, how beautiful is the sky - both of these were taken on my front verandah - I bought the coffee pot for $2 the other week and I love it, especially now it's warming up I will be spending most of my weekend mornings (when I'm home) eating breaky out on my lovely verandah with my music pumping in the background and a good book or magazine - such a great way to start the day.  The rest of my day was super productive but I didn't take many more photo's - I did however, clean my yard, got rid of loads of weeds, painted a door and had a wicked dance rehearsal.  I also got to talk to my bro, sis in law and niece who live in Scotland which was nice - Eadie (my neice) is soooo cute - it makes me a bit sad that they are so far away and we miss out on getting to cuddle her and watch her grow but thank goodness for Skype - at least we can see each other these days and hopefully when they return at least she will know our faces.

Hope you all had a lovely weekend also.

Cheers Donna

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Day 8 - 8th August 2011 - View

It's Monday today and the beginning of Week 2 - whilst I am enjoying the challenge of taking a photo each day, keeping up with the blog and posting the photos in a timely fashion is going to prove a little more difficult.  I didn't go near a computer on the weekend and I dance on Monday nights so it looks like I might be spending time each Tuesday evening playing catch up.  Fortunately the 1.5hr trip home each day will give me time to write and edit my photos etc- but yesterday I was just too shattered to do anything and read my book instead the whole way home. 

I took a few photo's today, my azalea tree is flowering beautifully this year which is great because everything else in my garden is dying and all the green thumb genes went to my bro.  My photo of the day though is the view out of my office at work, it's nothing that spectacular but at least I am fortunate enough to have an office with a window - I look at the palm trees all day long and dream of summer.  The Clouds look pretty good in this photo also, I'm slightly obsessed with clouds and I'm sure over the next 12 months they will feature quite prominently on this blog and I also like how the window frame comes up dark - the windows are actually filthy so I'm impressed how clear this looks.



Donna xoxo