Beetle Blow In

While walking today a small beetle landed on my shirt. I managed to coax it onto my left hand where I took these photos, holding the camera with my right!

First it crawled up my fingers.

Then it explored the back of my hand.

After perching like this for a moment it flew away.

Kookaburras Feeding

On the 14th of July this year I was taking my usual walk along the Plenty River when I saw a couple of Kookaburras behaving oddly. They were extracting insects from a partly dead tree. So I decided to take some photos. Here they are.

Millie in the Outdoors

Millie is a very white cat with almost transparent ears. We have been warned not to allow her outside very much. She has only ever been outside while being carried - until now.

We bought her a tunnel which can be attached to the old dog door at the back of the house.

She explored it with some diffidence but decided it was not too bad.

She can sit out there and feel the fresh air, look at the birds, bugs and fallen leaves.

And sometimes just relax and feel the air! (She spends about ten or so minutes outside, then comes back in for a while.)

But we do occasionally have to check that someone has not closed the door and stopped me from getting back inside!

But the real noise starts when we close the door and prevent her from getting outside again!

A Hesitant Kitten

Once I intended to use this to put a few photos on the www. Now I am going to start!

This is Millie when she was very small. She was also uncertain about this strange food her new owners were offering.

Found the blog again

I had forgotten that I created this blog. No posts for a while, but that will change.

Saturday Evening

Saturday evening (Australian time!) and nothing better to do that start a blog. I see by the little clock at the bottom of the edit screen that there are people in this round world who are told that it is actually Saturday Morning!

I intend this blog to be a place where I will ramble somewhat (as I am doing) and post some photographs which may be of some interest to other people.

Our family has been watching (probably far too much) the Winter Olympic Games from Canada. Cable TV has provided us with (at a price) more coverage than we could possibly watch. Many enjoyable hours watching fantastic athletes (and some less so) providing us with insights into sports hardly ever though about in this part of the globe. For some reason we found Curling rather enthralling! Ice hockey less so. The sliding sports are perhaps the most dangerous things we have seen at a world sports meeting for some time!

Free to air TV (in the form of GTV 9) provided fragments of sport with great swathes of talking heads and much jingoistic adulation of our "great Australian athletes". Time to grow up a bit.