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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’m not entirely sure what happened to November or the first two-thirds of December, but here it is, December 21, and I’m not at all ready for the end of the year let alone 2015. I have, however, managed to “do” this year’s Christmas card, despite the fact that my computer was out of action for nearly […] At this Christmas time I’ve been reflecting on the key characters in the Christmas story, and how faith, hope and charity are central to their actions and motivations. Think first of Mary: what faith she must have had to accept God’s trust in her, saying “Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to […] Dusk after sunset (yeah, I know: when else is dusk?!). I think I probably missed the best of the sunset, and I can’t remember if the colours were like this to the eye, as opposed to just being an artefact of the camera’s settings. The full Moods of the Mountain collection […] It has been a busy year and in the last few days it has caught up with me: I have come down with a cold and I’m definitely showing more than my usual signs of weariness. Yesterday I felt particularly “ordinary” and then the bed and the heating/cooling in the hotel room didn’t seem conducive to […] I had an overnight trip to Launceston this week, but with some complications that — fortunately — meant that I didn’t have to drive for any of it (I’m a bit run down at the end of the year, and it might not have been a good idea to be at the wheel of a car […] December is probably too busy a time of year for Scout hikes, which may explain the low numbers for our cycling and walking trip to Wellington Falls, but neither this, nor the less than clement weather, prevented us from having an enjoyable day of it. We cycled along the Pipeline Track from Neika, with the irrepressible […] The week’s second trip to Launceston involved an earlier start and later finish than Monday’s trip. There are lots of hills to either side of the highway (and underneath it!) which means that silhouettes are soft targets for photographers with limited imagination, and so it’s cows on the skyline again (admittedly it was was only one […] What had been an overcast day yielded a spectacular sunset as the clouds cleared a little, and this was followed by the setting of a crescent moon, showing “the old moon in the new moon’s arms”. The full Moods of the Mountain collection […] These photos come from the first of two day trips to Launceston this week: “snail bales” from my northward journey, and a misty hillside from the […] On the second day of the writing retreat I managed to get up early enough to fit in a quick walk to nearby Tarraleah Falls, which is about a 3.5km return journey. After crossing the pipeline near Tarraleah, the track heads into the bush, which was alive with the sounds of lots of different birds … […] |
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