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Thursday’s special

Choosing

21 Sunday Feb 2016

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Klara is Paula’s guest blogger on Thursday's special this week. She says “I’m challenging you to show us what choice means to you.”

This is right up my alley as I wind up life at Potato Point for at at least six months, possibly twelve, and head off to Warsaw. The choice has already been made – months ago – and the consequences are slowly unwinding.

Where will I choose?

HERE …

or HERE?


No choice really, once you factor in these two, who live in Warsaw …


Warsaw it is!

 

A choice I've made a number of times before.

Thursday’s special …

02 Wednesday Dec 2015

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And especially so since Paula is back from extended absence from blogging. Today's challenge asks for something that changed the original aspect of a place.

Recently, on a steamy afternoon, my companion insisted I accompany him to the top of a mountain. I set off, grumbling to myself emphatically “I don't want to do this. I DON'T WANT TO DO THIS!”

The path was no incentive. Dense shoulder high thistles curved over it, threatening maybe-snakes, maybe-tripping-over. J is much fitter than me, and he was soon out of sight. I persevered. At a rest stop I heard a sound like a two-stroke engine starting up, and began to feel a bit mellower even though I couldn't spot the koala making this strange sound.

The path became wider – and steeper, but somehow this didn't matter anymore. When I finally reached the trig station at the top I had a panoramic view out over country we'd been traversing for the last few days, and a chance to sit and soak it up. Suddenly thistles seemed insignificant.

 

 

Thursday’s special: Warble, glissade and hatchings

20 Thursday Nov 2014

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This week, my Thursday was triply special. It began walking with a friend on her beach. She warbled to magpies on the rocks, and they warbled back: it really was a conversation.

As I drove the Potato Point circuit to look at the beach, as I always do, a ritual of homecoming, a python made its elegant and unhurried way across the road and into the grass.

And when I stalked my Australian daughter on her Facebook page, I discovered there were new additions to her family.

Stolen from my daughter’s Facebook page

Thank you Paula for giving me a chance to assemble the delights of the day.

https://bopaula.wordpress.com/2014/11/20/thursdays-special-swarm-photo-101/

Macropod portraits

24 Wednesday Sep 2014

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I've become quite blasé about kangaroos and wallabies. Wherever I walk around home I see them: munching on grass with a joey hanging out the pouch; lounging, up to twenty of them, on the grassy stretch down by the creek; bounding off the track into the bush as I approach them heading out to the headland; and occasionally investigating my drive. I forget that to people from elsewhere they are exotic, and encounters I take for granted would be highlights of a visit for friends from the northern hemisphere. The down side of their presence is the need for supreme caution as I drive into my village from the highway: I would hate to hit a macropod eruption from the dark.

 

 

 

 

This post is linked to Paula's weekly non-challenge: have a look at her portrait of a cactus.

 

http://bopaula.wordpress.com/2014/09/25/thursdays-special-portrait/