The poppies are coming into flower in the midlands at the moment; there has been a big increase in the extent of the alkaloid crops since irrigation schemes have grown. (This was taken at about the same place as the third photo in […]
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Dramatis persona*
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. Visits since May 2016 |
Two months ago the 12th saw me in Melbourne; that’s where I ended up again today. The in-flight magazine had only one sudoku, and that had been half-completed by some previous passenger, so I abandoned my pre-take-off ritual and settled down to get some assignments marked, working my way through three before I drifted off as […] I was heading northwards to run a day of professional learning for teachers in Campbell Town, followed by meetings in Launceston. My colleague and I had heard that there had been a truck roll-over on the highway, but that light traffic was being allowed through. This may have been true for a while during the morning […] In anticipation of a bad fire season, there have been some “fuel reduction burns” being done. The mountain is not so pretty on a hazy smoky day. It didn’t even turn into a particularly nice sunset. The full “Moods of the Mountain collection” […] A day trip for a meeting. I love meetings. Especially when there is marking I should be doing. I love marking. Especially when there is … well, anything, really. (Anyone suspecting that some of those sentences may not have been entirely truthful is probably correct.) The first photo was taken while waiting for my colleague to pick […] This was not taken with any black and white filter or editing. I’ve included a wider angle shot to give you an idea of how the first shot fits in with the whole (and which bit is mountain and which is cloud). The full “Moods of the Mountain collection” […] It was a public holiday today, and I’d promised myself — and my parents — a bit of a break from things. I didn’t have definite plans, but Mum had been looking at a map and suggested that we drive to Murdunna and see what happened if we turned left. The road started off convincingly enough, […] This particular “Midlands” trip went a little further afield than usual, overnighting in Penguin before going to Burnie and then returning home, and, as it happens, none of the photos were taken in the actual midlands! So, after driving northward with colleagues after work and spending the night in the NW coast town of Penguin, I had […] Today was a work day, and the weather had a touch of moisture in it. When the mizzle eased, I snuck out of the office and wandered around the nearby gully, taking some photos to capture some of the dampness. Car bonnet.
Drops of water on the grass and moss. Drops of water on a blue gum nut. Prickly thing. Fern […] One of the wonderful things about living in Tasmania is that you don’t have to travel very far for a change of scenery. I’d had a week of being stuck in the office for long hours, and I needed a break for at least a little while on Saturday morning, so I offered to take Mum and […] |
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