Playground phallus

Summer has returned to Lake Ginninderra

Summer has returned. The last few weeks have been cold in Canberra with some mornings less than 10 °C. It’s one of the awful things about living at 600 m above sea level and about 300 km inland. It’s been cold and dry, just awful.

Going for a walk around Lake Ginninderra this morning was just great. Clear skies and so peaceful.

Yerra Beach on Lake Ginninderra is in need of attention

I grew up in Brisbane and spent 12 formative years in Darwin. These are places near beaches. As a teenager and young adult much of my spare time was on the beach and in the surf. It was like my natural habitat. In Darwin going to the beach is potentially dangerous with crocodiles able to chase you on the sand and deadly jellyfish in the water.

Black swans

Black swans are meant to be rare

Yet here in Australia black swans are common.

Merry Christmas

Good morning. Merry Christmas. I hope you have a great day with family and friends.

Thanks for following and reading this blog this year. There haven’t been that many posts but I hope to increase the frequency in 2015.

Mobile condom tips at the Belconnen Art Centre NIKON D810 with 28.0-300.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 at 250mm and f/5.6, 1/400sec, ISO 400

Mobile condom tips

Mobile condom tips public art at the Belconnen Arts Centre. Not condom tips for your mobile phone. These are mobile condom tips. Not tips on using a condom when you’re mobile.

Pelicans

Pelicans at John Knight Memorial Park on Lake Ginninderra

The last day of Winter around Lake Ginninderra

Today is the last day of Winter in the Southern Hemisphere. Tomorrow it will be Spring, yet the forecast still has Canberra experiencing some subzero mornings. No matter, it will be Spring and we can look forward to a gradual warming in the nights and mornings. Like yesterday, the weather today was gorgeous. I woke to […]