Day 247: Twiggy Trees

On a little drive at lunch time today I found these mostly nude tree trunks and the contrast against the clear blue sky struck me as being photo worthy. I've decided to use the manual settings on the Nikon as much as possible and to experiment with the different settings. I still don't really know what I'm doing but through a little trial and error I'm ending up with images that I'm happy with. Although sometimes for the first couple of photos I forget I've left the camera in manual mode and that I need to adjust it to suit the conditions.

It was such a nice day today, it's really startin to feel like spring is here at last. Maybe I should have taken a photo of the blossoms that have started coming out to give that 'spring is in the air' kind of feel, but then again I'm pretty sure this nice weather will lull us into a false sense of security only to snap back to the cold. 

Day 218: Bonus Day

Apart from Pete getting a new throttle cable yesterday, another good thing came out of his breakdown: We were delayed long enough that there was no way we'd be able to make it home in the remainder of the day.

This is good because it meant we had an excuse to spend the night in Marlo on the way home and we could extend our trip back to include stopping in Cann River for Breakfast, taking the Imlay Road toward Eden and the up to Bombala through Wyndham and Cathcart. From Bombala it was a pretty uneventful ride in to Cooma and then the boring stretch back to Canberra.

My photo today was taken out the front of the cabin we stayed in at the Marlo Caravan Park, we were just about to head off and it was looking like the weather would be good to us. It was a good day weather wise... until we got to Cathcart where the wind stated to pick up and by the time we rode through Bombala it was cold and blowing a gale.

I was glad to get home at around lunch time and out of the cold, I didn't have that much unpacking to do because I was wearing most of it. I think I counted 8 layers on top which wasn't counting my Dri-Rider Jacket or the one piece rain suit that I was wearing to keep the wind out. What a great couple of days.

Day 215: Cold

The car has been living outside since I got it back because we still haven't sold the Commodore. This morning I was greeted by a roof lined with small, spiky icicles when I went out to put Henry in the car. At least the windscreen was clear, our driveway catches the morning sun and it had managed to defrost the windscreen but hadn't worked its way up to the roof yet. I hope this isn't a sign of things to come tomorrow when I'll be heading out on the bike at 7am.

Day 187: Wet & Grubby

I can't remember exactly where this is... I know it's somewhere between Clarence Town and Urunga and I know it was where we stopped for lunch. I think it was Walcha Road or Thunderbolts Way... Are they the same thing?

What ever it was, it would have been an awesome stretch of road to ride in the dry, instead we had light rain and muddy roadworks to contend with. I don't think the R1 has ever been this grubby. From here we continued on in the drizzle and did a section of highway that lead into Urunga, it was nice to be on smooth roads, it was also nice to have the heated handgrips running.

Day 182: Pretty Ball

Art's funny sometimes... you can see something a hundred times without actually noticing stuff about it.

Deep hey?

Today, while we were out in the freezing cold with Robbie, Damon, Jenna and Henry, Belinda pointed out the different colours in big suspended ball at the National Gallery. I come past here pretty regularly and see this sculpture every time and I had never noticed the greens and oranges in what I previously thought was a big, grey, chicken wire ball. Maybe it stood out more in the afternoon sun with the clear blue sky today... or maybe Belinda's just far more observant than I am.

Day 163: Local Landmark 2

We went on a little photo taking expedition this afternoon and since I'd been thinking about shooting some more local landmarks we ended up at Parliament house.

Going inside after wandering around the outside was a welcome reprieve from the cold, we also ventured up on to the roof where I took this and a number of other photos. One of my favourite photos of the day is the one I took of the flagpole's reflection in the glass pyramid directly below it, it gives an interesting perspective that isn't often seen. Because that perspective isn't seen very often I guess it's not as instantly recognisable as the landmark that it is, so I didn't use it for today's post. I still like this photo and am very happy with how it turned out.

Day 156: The New Beanie

Sometimes he's just too quick. I was trying to catch Henry with his new beanie on his head but Henry had other ideas. The beanie arrived in the mail the other day from his Nanna Glenda and with the cold that we've been experiencing he's already had good use of it.

Of course Henry thought it would be funny to pull the beanie off his head as soon as I got the camera out, sometimes he likes to amuse himself at our expense. Could this be more evidence that the apple doesn't fall far from its tree?

Day 155: Sick

I've been fighting off a cold for close to a week now and I think I'm losing. Today's photo is my second round of Cold & Flu tablets on top of another empty tissue box. I don't get sick very often but when I do I'm always amazed at how much mucus I can produce, it's really quite disgusting.

I hope I don't feel this crappy for much longer, I'm a bit sick of being sick.

Day 149: May Task - The Weather Today

The weather today was, in a word, cold. But that's to be expected in Sunny Canberra at this time of year. I was a bit slack today and completely forgot to take a photo of what, on the surface, appeared to be quite a nice day despite the minimalist maximum temperature. The sun was out and the sky was blue with a few fluffy white clouds floating about which looked very inviting. It would have been lovely too, if it wasn't for the wind making it feel substantially colder than it looked from the comfort of my office window.

Due to my forgetfulness, I took a screenshot of the weather app on my iPhone instead of a photo of the outside world. As a bonus, I think this gives a fairer indication of what the day was actually like. As against an image of sunshine and blue skies that could easily fool an onlooker into thinking it was t-shirt and shorts weather.

Day 118: Sunny Canberra

This was the view that greeted me this morning. It was a bit of an early taste of what the coming Winter has to offer us: Cold and foggy mornings. Eventually the cold and fog will give way even colder and frost, it's nice to know you've got something to look forward to.

I used Snapseed on this morning's photo to bring the colours out in our tree. It's leaves are starting to turn and soon will be a naked mess of twiggy branches, but for now it's getting all pretty and Autumn like. It's a nice time of year in Sunny Canberra... if you don't mind the cold starts to the days.