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Sunday Selections #36

by frogpondsrock on September 11, 2011

in blogging,friendship,Fun,photography,sunday selections

Welcome to this weeks Sunday Selections. The rules are simple and everyone is welcome to join in.

The Blurb

I take a lot of photos and most of them are just sitting around in folders on my desktop not doing anything. I thought that a dedicated post once a week would be a good way to share some of these photos that otherwise wouldn’t be seen by anyone other than me.

I am also remarkably absent minded and I put photos into folders and think that I will publish them later on and then then I never do.

So I have started a photo meme that anyone can join in and play as well. The rules are so simple as to be virtually non existent.

Just add your name and URL to the Mr Linky.

Publish your photos on your blog using the “Sunday Selections” title.

Link back here to me.

Easy Peasy.

The Photos

I miss this tree. It was the focal point for a lot of my sunset photos. The tree was cut down in 2009 to make way for powerline upgrades from single phase to three phase capability. I am making good use of that powerline upgrade in my studio as the kiln needs three phase power. I still miss this tree and sunset photos are quite boring without it there in the photo making me smile.

I think this next photo speaks for itself. The stories this photo conjure up just make me smile.

Last summer I had a zillion grey aphids in the honeysuckle which grows over the back verandah. The silver eyes had a feast.

Spring has well and truly sprung here in Tassie and my daffodils are out in force reminding me that summer is just around the corner.

And with the advent of the warmer weather the blasted blowies are waking up as well.

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From the Vault, Let’s talk about sex.

by frogpondsrock on August 24, 2011

in Fun,general silliness

I have been getting increasingly annoyed with the level of spam that I have been bombarded with lately. So I thought I would republish a post I originally published in 2008.

Let’s talk about sex.

My spam emails have been giving me a bit of a giggle lately. I have been intrigued by catchy little lines like this gem:-

MALE FEATURE WORTHY OF CASANOVA!

Of course I then opened the email to read this. “Don’t you want to spend your life suffering from your moderate love luger?”

Well no actually, I don’t and more to the point, how exactly does one suffer from a moderate love luger hmmm?

Then there was this, “Love tool deserving of a titan” with the following promise.

“You’ll cause her eyebrows to raise, when you pull out your newly upgraded love gun!”

I think I would do more than raise my eyebrows if The Spouse’s penis had suddenly turned into a gun.

Another reference to a ‘love luger’ promised, “As it grows longer, she will beg of you to penetrate her flower!”

Ok, so if I am not mistaken, penises are guns, whilst vaginas are pretty flowers.

So now I can just casually mention to The Spouse that my flower needs shooting, and I don’t even need to say the word sex anymore. I could even yell it out loudly in public, “Jeffreeey shoot my flower” and casual passers by would just think that I was having issues with the roses.

I just raced out to the shed, camera in hand and demanded that Jeffrey shoot my flower.

Here is his reaction.

Yes, he is looking at me like I am a total nutter.

Rightio now back to the emails.

Then we have the miracle cures. Add 2 inches to your dick size easily with just 2 pills of our formula per day.

At least this one called a penis a dick, I was getting a bit tired of lugers.

There were promises of permanent huge enlargements of your erect penis. Wouldn’t you get a bit tired with a permanently erect penis even if it was huge? Well it would be fun initially but I am sure that it would be a bit of a nuisance after a while and if the penis is as large as these miracle pills promise, well then there is a very real danger of slamming your penis in the car door or schwacking it accidentally or even *gasp* receiving a black eye from your own penis.

Phew I am glad I only have a flower.

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Sunday Selections #31 (with spiders)

by frogpondsrock on August 7, 2011

in blogging,ceramics,Fun,photography,sunday selections

I have included two photos of spiders in this weeks selections. They are halfway down the page so if you are phobic there is still time to click away now without seeing the spider shots.

You can thank me later.

I feel lost if I don’t have my camera with me, I have this nagging unsettled feeling that something isn’t quite right.

In the months after my mother died I lost interest in capturing any images at all and I put the camera way. It has been a slow journey back to the joyful delight that taking a kick arse image gives me.

As a ceramist I fire in oxidation and reduction. I throw, slip cast and hand build my work. I make chunky dark pots from a gravel filled clay body that will tear your hands to pieces if you are not careful and I also make delicate white slip cast cups. These contrasting styles of working make me happy

My photography is proving to be the same eclectic mix of images. I absolutely adore the sparse images I captured the other week with their blurry dreamlike quality. I also love the crisp focused photos that I take as well. I am quite interested to see where I am going with my image making and invite you to come on the journey with me.

So without further ado here are the images, closely followed by the weekly blurb. And just in case you had forgotten there are spiders ahead.

The Blurb.

I am also remarkably absent minded and I put photos into folders and think that I will publish them later on and then then I never do.

So I have started a photo meme that anyone can join in and play as well. The rules are so simple as to be virtually non existent.

Just add your name and URL to the Mr Linky.

Publish your photos on your blog using the “Sunday Selections” title.

Link back here to me.

Easy Peasy.

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Sunday Selections #26

by frogpondsrock on July 3, 2011

in blogging,friendship,Fun,photography,sunday selections

The Blurb.

I am also remarkably absent minded and I put photos into folders and think that I will publish them later on and then then I never do.

So I have started a photo meme that anyone can join in and play as well. The rules are so simple as to be virtually non existent.

Just add your name and URL to the Mr Linky.

Publish your photos on your blog using the “Sunday Selections” title.

Link back here to me.

Easy Peasy.

The Photos this week are from a mix of cameras and my phone.

This is a Green Rosella, these are also known colloquially as Mountain Parrots. They are ground feeders and seed eaters. I don’t like to feed native birds because they become dependent on us for food and can quite often starve to death when we stop feeding them because they have forgotten how to forage, it only takes one generation of birds to teach their young that the bird feeder is the primary food source. These parrots eat the wheat that I feed to my ducks so I am feeding them by proxy, it is a big responsibility.

This calf wandered into my yard a year or so ago with its mother. The more damage they did to my fruit trees the tastier they started to look. Luckily I managed to track down their owner so the calves were safe. If they come back it might be a different story as I was not compensated for the damage they did to my fruit trees. So much for being a responsible neighbour.

A frog, so cute.

Taken while driving home after a long day. I was tired.

What do you think about this shot?

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Sunday Selections #24

by frogpondsrock on June 19, 2011

in blogging,Fun,photography,sunday selections

The Blurb.

I am also remarkably absent minded and I put photos into folders and think that I will publish them later on and then then I never do.

So I have started a photo meme that anyone can join in and play as well. The rules are so simple as to be virtually non existent.

Just add your name and URL to the Mr Linky.

Publish your photos on your blog using the “Sunday Selections” title.

Link back here to me.

Easy Peasy.

Here are my photos for this week.

I went back through my media library and found these images that I had published here on the blog in the summer of 2009. Look at the blue of the sky in that first photo.