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📚 Not A Book Review - Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
You had me at 're-wilding wolves in the Scottish Highlands.' Inti Flynn arrives in Scotland with her twin sister, Aggie, to lead a team...
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Dec 11, 2021
📷 Berkelouw Book Barn, Berrima
Went on a little jaunt up to Berkelouw Book Barn in Berrima recently to belatedly celebrate a special birthday (say that three times real...
kellinthewoods
Nov 17, 2021
Golden Hour
Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. ...
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Oct 11, 2021
To the sea
I went down in the afternoon to the sea which held me, until I grew easy. - Mary Oliver, from 'Swimming, One Day in August'
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Sep 25, 2021
Wolpertingers and Jackalopes
I Tweeted about Wolpertingers last Thursday for Twitter's weekly #FolkloreThursday. They're cute little beasties from the alpine forests...
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Sep 9, 2021
📷 Springtime
"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Aug 7, 2021
Resting in the grace of the world
‘When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may...
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May 13, 2021
📚 Not a Book Review - The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
Re-reading Eowyn Ivey’s The Snow Child and remembering all over again why it’s one of my most favourite books. Just beautiful. ❄️...
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Apr 28, 2021
Tower by the Sea - Davidson Whaling Station & Boyd Tower, Eden
I recently headed down the coast to Eden for a little weekend away with the fam. Eden is famous for its whaling history, and while we...
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Jul 20, 2020
📷 Stalking A Sea Eagle
Spotted this local out at Booderee and waited patiently for 378 hours (OK, maybe not quite that long) until I got photos of the launch....
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Jun 21, 2019
Happy Winter Solstice
Spellbound The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me And I cannot, cannot go. The...
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Apr 18, 2018
📷 Magical m(i)stical morning.
I looked out my window this morning to see the front yard hidden in a thick fog. It looked so magical, I rambled down to the beach and...
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Nov 14, 2017
📚 Not A Book Review - The Taxidermist's Daughter by Kate Mosse
Sussex, 1912. In a churchyard, villagers gather on the night when the ghosts of those who will die in the coming year are thought to be...
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Mar 16, 2017
📚 Not a Book Review - To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey
"Alaska, 1885. Colonel Allen Forrester receives the commission of a lifetime when he is charged to navigate Alaska's hitherto impassable...
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Jun 15, 2016
📷 Waiting for Whales
It's winter here on the east coast of Australia, and since Jervis Bay sticks out from the coast like a big barnacle, we see quite a lot...
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Dec 21, 2014
Empty Nests and Flying Lessons
The time has come... the babies are flying the nest. First one stepped out... Followed by another. These two must be the first two eggs,...
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Dec 17, 2014
11 days old...
They sure do grow u fast, don't they? 11 days old.
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Dec 16, 2014
Broadway Tower
Broadway Tower sits above the village (and hill) of the same name in the oh-so-pretty Cotswolds. It came to be in 1798 when Lady...
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