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Thursday’s special

Choosing

21 Sunday Feb 2016

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choice

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.

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Thursday’s special …

02 Wednesday Dec 2015

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Mt Napier, reluctance

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.

 

 

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Thursday’s special: Warble, glissade and hatchings

20 Thursday Nov 2014

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chickens, diamond python, magpie

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/

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Thursday’s special: an inletscape

22 Wednesday Oct 2014

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Dalmeny NSW

 

Dalmeny, southern NSW

 

Paula at http://bopaula.wordpress.com/2014/10/23/thursdays-special-landscape/ invites participation in her Thursday's special post. Her photos are always special, so click and look.

 

 

 

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Macropod portraits

24 Wednesday Sep 2014

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kangaroos, Potato Point, wallabies

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/

 

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