Frazzled
This is Currawong. Her usual appearance is very sleek and glossy but with three demanding youngsters you see her in her frazzled summer state of dress.
I've been doing a lot of this lately, sitting and staring into the distance. I blame the heat it's whittled away my attention span to minus zero this summer. It's even been an effort to lift and point the camera some days. I have a feeling the feathered ones and others have been engineering their own photo opportunities. As for communicating via the blogsphere its been a case of missing words...
playing around in my head
A new month and officially the beginning of a new season. Of course Ma Nature calls the shots and she's having none of this. She put on a great light show followed by a lot of thunder and rain at two thirty this morning and as I type I can hear distant rumblings of another possibly coming this way tonight. There's also a chance of another storm on Thursday so I guess summer will be over when she says so and not before.
In the meantime I'll just have to settle for reminders of cooler days via our photos. Tian Tan Buddha or Big Buddha, watches over Po Lin Monastery on Lantau Island, Hong Kong
I've mentioned before how I don't like heights. I'm in my element with feet on ground and ideally looking through a camera lens at something colourful. Mr Bimb thinks I should live a little braver ...
which is how he managed to talk me into not taking the bus ride back down the mountain
As soon as I saw the glass bottom I quickly sat down and gave him the camera then closed my eyes tight. Can I just say there were no missing words at that moment but as we didn't have the car to ourselves I had to hold them within.
Buddha would have been pleased.
25 Good eggs say hi *!*:
OOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHH These are beautiful but I would have had a syncopal episode with that glass bottom!!! Still wonderful to have that experience.
what a riveting enjoyable post for a woman without words!
i can't help thinking that your awareness of absent words is a sure sign you are a officially a writer!
that glass bottom thingy: annie, i wouldn't have missed that but i too would have covered my eyes and said %$!@@ to myself. :)
i vote for your pictures of hong kong any time.
thank you for the extra treat of seeing your furry friend. and seeing you!
love
kj
Missing words- me too. But it is the end of FEB and the beginning of MARCH when the wind just whips words away scattering them all over in a tangled mess. I am with you on the ride in the glass bottomed basket- EEEEK!
Love the black bird with the yellow stare!
Ces, I braved a couple of looks through my fingers; I still feel my eyes bulging and my stomach somersaulting*!*
Kj, honestly this post has been weeks in the making... verbs and adjectives were knowingly harmed in the initial stages ;)
The weather has a firm grip on us Linda-Sue. I hope the wind blows more favourably for you otherwise invest in a butterfly net and catch them before they get too far away*!*
oh my goodness. i am afraid of heights as well and that glass floor would have given me the willies!
fantastic shots, annie -- the buddha and shrine as well as the aerial views. yes, buddha would be pleased ;-)
you are so brave ... much more so than me... they have a glass bottomed lift in melb at the eureka building and when I took a peek inside the lift I almost fainted... I didnt go inside it either!!its a long long way down when you look! yes, youre definately brave!
Amanda I was really glad to get off and stand on concrete :)
Krissie - it's a horrible sensation and hard to explain to anyone who has no problem with heights*!*
Cooooeeee Linda Sue where has your blog gone????*!*
Gawd I'm so late catching up, I didn't even know you'd been to Hong Kong? Weather's not too bad down here at the moment. Beautiful day for a wedding! Yep, there's one happening right in my back yard at 4pm. Better go get me doo did!
Giant Buddha statues are so satisfying, aren't they? Part of me wants to think they are sort of an insane thing to build, but the rest of me just enjoys them too much! (Though, I suppose I have to admit that I feel the same goes for glass bottomed things...)
I do hope all the thunderstorms make the heat break so you get a few cooler days.
Baino - we had a stopover in HK on the way back from Paris. Ah nephew's nuptials? hope you have a great time and get plenty of photos*!*
Jodi - this was my first visit to a giant Buddha statue so I thought it quite impressive ... once I got my breath back, there were a lot of stairs to climb ;)
Well done you. I'm good with heights but I've gotta tell you that cable car would defeat me. Glass floor? Ooer!
Your travel pictures are really something.
oh dear annie, i can so sympathize.
and currawong reminds me of myself as a young mother of at least 2 in diapers at one time!
i do hope it cools down for you soon.
I love Currawong's irritable yellow eyes. Perhaps she's tired with those babies cheeping at her all day. I bet the dark of the night makes 'em shuttup though!!
I bequeth you my cooler spring days, the constant onslaught of rain, the weird dips and dives in temperature.
:)
And you and I are of the same ilk, I took the bobbins to the grand canyon and my Vertigo was so bad, I had to give the manchild the camera and say "have fun.. I am not looking until the horizon does not have a sharp fall off!"
LOL
S - smiles thanks that cool change arrived early this week :)
I love those Illuminary suns... I'm only dropping by to wish you a hello. I'm thinking of doing a feathery Friday (on Saturday, but of course) on rainbow lorries again. I'll give you a shout if I do, it's a tossup between them and Mars-rabbits ie chinchillas... I think I've done mars-rabbits once too many as it is...
... i'm frazzled today. I reckon I've got bipolar disorder not bipolar schizoaffective. But then I'm not the dr so what do I know. I just know my sleep is all over the place and I feel like sleeping for a year right now...
ps you're a Brit by birth, right? So you wouldn't have gone to school in Australia but do you happen to know whether they still whacked the kids in the 1980s in Aussie schools? Today when people talk about "getting caned" they mean they're high on drugs and I mentioned this on my blog and that we still got whacked in 1986... until it got banned when I was about 15 or 16 and some people were really surprised it was still going on that late but I remember Shane Warne saying he used to get caned at school and it was a state school as far as I know... and he's only about 2 years older than me. The kids are so very obnoxious and I mean frighteningly so. The police come out quite frequently for chucking out time in the afternoon it's that bad and they terrify fellow passengers on the bus not by being "threatening" just overbearing. Makes me feel like I come from another age. I bet they don't know how it feels to be genuinely terrified of some of your school teachers like me and you both must have been I mean we would have had teachers teaching us who started maybe in the 1950s, the atmosphere was totally different. My school was a converted secondary modern so we had really heavy discipline it was a real shock coming from a home counties large comprehensive to a smaller school in wales where the headmaster actually did walk down the corridor not in motor board like in the comments, but in that black gown... I feel like a relic from an antiques shop!
I hope you don't mind this but I googled you and shamelessly STOLE some rainbow lorries gobbling the luxury bird food you put out ... of coure I put your link. So you're starring in Feathery Friday on Saturday. Hope you don't mind (you don't mind, do you..??)
I don't like heights either. I remember being talked into taking a ride like this...I closed my eyes too as soon as I saw the glass bottom, and shook all the way to the end of the ride.
I love this..."Can I just say there were no missing words at that moment but as we didn't have the car to ourselves I had to hold them within." Heh, heh!!
My words have been missing lately, as well, not sure why. Just another cycle, I guess.
Gleds - I remember our Headmaster marching across the playground with his black cape billowing about him. He had a cane for naughty kids, the deputy preferred a table tennis bat and some of the other teachers liked to throw things across the class room to get attention ;) Sorry I can't help you with what went on in schools here, but they must have been able to punish kids because I seem to remember there being a lot of discussions in the media about classroom control. Thanks for linking the rainbows. Now get some decent sleep lad*!*
Marion - yes cycles but I think it's time for a new one to kick in, I can feel the cool change beginning to stir things up. I hope spring is going to do the same for you :)
too hot for words ;-) xx
i'm sure i've commented before today... but then again i may have only thought that x
Wow You beat that though, it didn't beat you. You did it! I am not brave either,but I wouldn't have wanted to miss that experience. I do like my feet set firmly on the earth.
Love your photos. Hey, I drove down Bimbimbee street yesterday. It is in the grounds of ANU at Bruce here.
There were currawongs singing.
Linda May - don't you love to hear currawongs sing, they have a wonderful ethereal quality about them*!*
You are far braver than I, Annie. I would have walked across the water before I'd get on that thing. Kudos for your nerve even if you did have to cover your eyes.
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