Category: Photography
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Photo Tip : Check your Horizon
Lift your head up. Look for the horizon. There is one there. Just look for it. Then straighten your shot up. Before you take the photo make sure the image is straight. Or straighten it later in your photo app. Choose a line. Your viewers eye will relax when your horizon is level. And your…
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It was New Years Eve
“New Years Eve is a kind of witching hour. Like a time within a time. The in-between. The moments between flashes. The pause between seconds”. (I began to write this post last night – I was waxing lyrical). “It is eve of a new year. 2024 is coming. I am half way through a bottle…
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Mud Reigns Supreme
On the Holiday called Christmas it rained. It was not cold, just rained and rained and rained. The mud has reached epic proportions and Him Indoors is not able to help with chores at all now. His walking stick sinks straight down into the mud. And I am afraid of a fall. So – well…
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Happy Christmas Holiday!
The huge chicken is in the oven – stuffed with home made toasted bagels, oranges, onions, thyme, sage and oregano and balsamic vinegar. It will be a long slow cook because it is Heeuuuge! And grown right here in my own garden! Plus a leek and potato pie (the pastry is already resting in the…
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How to Train a Peacock
I have had enough of this big beautiful poopy peacock hanging out on the West verandah, dropping his big wet peacock droppings. And Him Indoors tromping it inside on the shoes he refuses to take off before walking over my clean floors. Mr Flowers. My beautiful peaceful peacock. So I am training him to the…
The Kitchen's Garden 