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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 |
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 […] On the southern slopes of Mt Wellington, about 4km from The Springs, there is one of the mountain’s more famous features: the aptly named Disappearing Tarn. It lies — when it is there at all — in a curious depression in one of the bigger “potato fields”: a large area of tumbled dolerite rocks and boulders […] Although I had several reminders that it was “12 of 12” today, opportunities were limited and then I nearly ended up forgetting entirely. However, I decided I needed a 15 minute walk on my way to Scouts, and suddenly remembered that I needed my photos, although I only had my iPhone as my weapon of choice. However, […] No wonder it was cold last night and this morning: the recent wild weather had brought snow, but also a lovely crisp morning after. The full “Moods of the Mountain collection” […] 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 […] This half of the year is proving busy but not especially bloggable. This explains why the posts are mostly scenery in the midlands and moody mountains, and nothing much in between. I’m grateful for a mountain to look at to distract me from all the busy. These two shots provide a hint that the rain that […] 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 […] After a mild and sunny day, things start getting ominous. The full “Moods of the Mountain collection” […] 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 […] And, with some predictability, the 12th comes around again. This month’s 12 of 12 found me in Launceston for a day of teaching and other stuff. I’d come up yesterday, but for a number of reasons didn’t write my daily journal entry before going to bed, making that the first order of business for the day […] |
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