Day 207 - Chitty Chitty Comes In, Telling Secrets

Day 206 - Better

Nothing like the company of your favourite teddy and a pet to make you feel better.

Day 205 - In Search of Worms and Slugs

Day 204 - Linger

Day 203 - Marking Time

Day 202 - Camo, Stripes & Rust

Day 201 - Empty, Cold and Bare

Day 200 - Staring Over Sheds And Rooftops

You will do that when your dog dies.
Stare into space, look at nothing, think about everything.

Day 173 - 'S' is for Solstice

Day 172 - Golden Hour

Day 171 - Owl Eyes

Day 170 - Cross Country Runner

Day 169 - Abandoned Shopping Trolley Landscape No. 1

Day 168 - Bored

Day 167 - Dingo Flour

Day 166 - Sunday Morning with the Subiaco Lions

Day 165 - Cat and Dog on the Rainbow Rug

Day 164 - Crazy Hair

Day 163 - Soak

Day 162 - Cold Light of Winter

Day 161 - Old Mate

Day 160 - Backbone

Day 159 - Hallowell Fever

Day 158 - Sleep

Day 157 - Fringe (Dweller)

Day 156 - Wither and Die

Day 155 - Renovation Blues

Day 154 - Stop All The Clocks

(W.H. Auden)

For Jasmine, who loved the clock tower in the main street.
A beautiful, warm, and humourous woman, gone too soon.

I will miss laughing in your shop, and the way you let my kids touch all of the stuff and how you loved Carys and her quirkiness. And I will miss your kind words and encouragement. 

xxx

  

Day 153 - Sew

Day 152 - First Win

Jockey Andrew Castle gives a small salute to acknowledge Cape Revival's first win.

Day 151 - Flyaway

Day 150 - Desperation Cat #2

Day 149 - Recuperation

Day 148 - Drive

Day 147 - Hedgehog

Day 146 - Bovver Boots

Day 145 - Hello

Look closely.
Can you see?
It is carved
In the tree.

Day 144 - Blondie's Eggs Make An Omelette

Day 143 - North-side Kids Represent

Day 142 - La Vista Desde La Zanja Del Infierno

Day 141 - Selfies

Day 140 - Bright-eyed And Not So Bushy-tailed

Day 139 - What You See

Today I received a lovely notebook from my friend Nadine, scattered with some fantastic photography-related quotes like this one from Henry David Thoreau -

"It's not what you look at the matters, it's what you see". 

Day 138 - The Ups And Downs On The Trampoline Of Life

Day 137 - On The Melbournes

Day 136 - Evie's Friday Night Puppet Theatre

Day 135 - One Hundred And Five In Dog Years

Ripper turned fifteen today.

Quite amazing for a Labrador, although unofficial records say that others have lived to anywhere between twenty-four to twenty-nine years of age.

He was a pet shop special, probably from a puppy mill, bought in the days before I even realised they existed, much less knew how awful they were.

Sold as a pure-bred, we received a phone call a few days later informing us 'the vet' thought there was 'something else' in him, and would we like to return him?

There was no way that was going to happen.

Ripper barely set a foot wrong, even as a puppy, apart from the odd escapade with Whoopi (who died in 2011) where they ended up in the pound.

There have been times over the last couple of years when I thought he wouldn't last the week, but he keeps on keeping on, albeit really slowly these days.

He is the most gentle, smart and intuitive dog. I don't think there'll ever be another one like him.

Happy birthday, old mate.
 

Day 134 - Recorder Practice

Day 133 - Conservative Ultra-right Neoliberal Tories on Budget Night

Day 132 - Handful