Dramatis persona*

helenhead Helen Chick

I've always wanted a bumper sticker that said "I'm a female, LDS/Mormon, Scout leading, geocaching, piano-playing, bicycling, mathematics educator with a PhD in maths ... and I VOTE"!

I think this makes me a minority group of cardinality 1!

* Since there's only one of me and "personae" is plural (I think), I've gone with dramatis persona.
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Midlands 2016-#22N

Yesterday’s north-bound trip was my last trip for the year associated with teaching/professional learning (there’s a faculty meeting still to come). As I had a non-work related commitment following my class in Launceston I was driving my own car, which meant I had a bit more freedom to take some detours.

One of the detours was nearly […]

Midlands 2016-#21NS

I have a very miscellaneous collection of photos from this trip, none of them entirely what I was planning.

On my way northward yesterday there were some interesting late afternoon sunlight effects, as the sun snuck through gaps in the extensive clouds. There were some great sights, but most of them were so transient I didn’t even […]

Midlands 2016-#20NS

This week’s evening trip northwards was characterized by rather foul weather. When I stopped to take the first photo it took considerable effort to even open the car door, such was the strength of the wind, and further north there was horizontal rain just to add to the fun. If you look closely at the tree […]

Midlands 2016-#19N

I didn’t manage a photo on the return trip of this week’s overnight visit to Launceston, but on the way up I stopped and got some later afternoon muted light reflections of the willows and jetty in the dam in someone’s front yard.

(I try to take at least one photo on each of my long-distance north-bound […]

Midlands 2016-#18S

I’d hoped to catch some spring lambs and the abundant wattle on my return journey, but I missed the best of the opportunities, thanks to heavy traffic that made stopping difficult. I found some other lambs (there are plenty of them about) and some other wattle (the flowers a brilliant spring yellow though the bane of […]

Midlands 2016-#18N

This week’s two night trip to Launceston is centred around the 12th, and so, since I took a few photos on my northbound journey, I’ll post those first, then bring you 12 of 12, and finally, if there’s something that catches my eye on my return journey (and I do have some possibilities in mind, weather […]

Midlands 2016-#17NS

This trip was an overnight trip to Campbell Town, for a work meeting on one day and then a day of professional learning the next. On the way up I stopped where the highway bypasses Ross. Some 200m north of the highway there is a long ruined building that has lost most of its roof. I’m […]

Midlands 2016-#16NS

You’re going to have a whole sequence of Midlands photos in the next couple of weeks as I have a few trips scheduled. For this trip, I headed up to Launceston yesterday and I stopped to get a shot of the industrial magnificence that is the zinc works, behind the Bowen Bridge. Today, my return journey […]

Midlands 2016-#14NS

There were some nice scenes on my latest Launceston trip, especially on my homeward journey, but I failed to take photographic advantage of them. Instead you get a photographic record of my disproportionate excitement that the uni car remembered me from a previous trip, and hooked up to the music on my iPhone automatically when I […]

Midlands 2016-#13NS

Today’s midlands trip was a day trip to Campbell Town, and the morning winter light and the fact that I had a few minutes up my sleeve meant that it was worth stopping at St Peter’s Pass to take a photo of the row of skeletal trees that march across a paddock by one of the […]