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I enjoy watching birds, they always make me smile and a glimpse of an eagle soaring in the sky high above me always makes me shiver with delight.
Lately I have had the pleasure of a young eagles company. This eagle flies through my property and perches in the trees quite close to my house.
Sometimes I just look up and there she is, other times I am alerted by the calling of the forest ravens and I watch as they harass the eagle.
The eagle ignores the ravens and they eventually fly off, calling their way across the winter sky.
Now as a warning for the squeamish amongst you there is a photo of a dead wallaby in this next set.
This first photo is just to give you a sense of scale. The eagle is in a dead tree eyeing off a dead wallaby lying in the middle of the road. After I took these photos I dragged the wallaby to the side of the road and I was pleased to see the eagle eating the carcass the next day.
A few days later the eagle was back and was perched in a tree just below my back verandah.
I grabbed the camera and followed the eagle as she flew from tree to tree. She was being harassed by Ravens on this day and each time she shook her wings the Ravens backed off a bit.
Isn’t she just gorgeous.
I adore the moon, absolutely love it. The sight of a full moon makes me shiver with happiness. I had taken a couple of photos of the moon last night in preparation for the lunar eclipse and they were horrible, boring, lifeless photos of a white globe in the sky.
Luckily for me and for you as well, I have a very clever and supremely patient daughter who talked me through the aperture and shutter speed settings on the camera. I was pressing buttons and twirling knobs and nothing was changing when voila I magically found the right combination of sideclick,press and twirl and the aperture and shutter speed revealed themselves to me.
So without further ado and a great big round of applause to Veronica, she of the sleepless nights and cloudy skies, here are my photos of the lunar eclipse over Tasmania.
and for those of you who this technical stuff means anything I used a Nikon D90, freehand with a 200mm lens, aperture of 8 and shutter speed of 800.
The full moon just before the eclipse.
The beginnings of the eclipse.
It is all happening by now and my nose was very very cold, luckily for me I could keep on racing back inside to thaw out.
This last shot was the moon just before sunrise at about 6.30 am on a frosty Sunday morning.
In these dreams I will be walking down the footpath and I will just tuck my feet up under myself a little bit and I will be flying.
I always get the same feeling of joy and I wonder, ” How could I have forgotten how easy this is?” I hover a few feet above the ground and point my arms in the direction I want to go and then I am off, soaring along, happy and free.
I enjoy photographing birds and lately when “The Spouse” and I have been fishing I try and photograph the seagulls and molly hawks as well as anything else that catches my eye.
Birds in flight are really tricky to photograph but sometimes the shots just work and I feel like I am flying as well.
I also have a nagging feeling that I read something very similar on a blog recently so if that was you leave me a comment and we can compare dreams.
Look what arrived in the mail today.
I am feeling a little bit stunned by Mrs Oh’s amazing generosity. Well maybe stunned isn’t the proper word to use. How does totally gobsmacked, overwhelmed,thrilled to bits, and giddy with excitement sound instead?
Every time I pour my heart out, here on my blog, you my lovely internetz always hold me up and give me solace. Mrs Oh is a motherless woman as well and her thoughtful comments on my saddest posts always make me feel that is okay to miss Mum. Even though my grief causes Mrs Oh to be reminded of her own, she still takes the time to console me and because of that care and compassion I know that I am not quite so alone.
This is the beautiful joy of blogging, the fabulous sense of friendship and community shared by bloggers who have never met in person but are privy to each others hopes and dreams, heartaches and despair.
And I thank each and every one of you for being my dearest internetz.
Now back to the chocolate. mmm.
I squealed with excitement when I saw these Almond joys.
I don’t know how to accurately describe the excitement of receiving a chocolate that I had only read about or seen in the movies. so you will just have to imagine me jumping up and down going SQUEEEE!
Then there were all these little treasures.Turtles and Watchamacallits and Hershey bars and Hershey kisses and and and…
Mmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Thank you so much Mrs Oh. I am in chocolate heaven.
