From a shop to abstraction

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After one very warm day, we now have rain again and the land is welcoming it - apart from the horses and fillies all dolled up for the Derby racing in Melbourne which was rather a wash-out.

While the food is cooking I have an hour free, so fiddled with three photos - two taken at a nursery a week or so ago, and one taken at a small garden ornaments shop next to the medical centre we attend. Here are the results - a bit removed from the original photos of course. I try to have a unity in an image, some kind of repetition, some kind of energy. It doesn't matter if there's no title or 'real' subject.

Running around with a grand-child

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Trying to keep up with an eight-year old isn't easy for this Grandma, but of course it's a delight to have a conversation with a delightful young girl and to help with her home-schooling while on holiday, planting seeds in trays, digging up weeds, etc. But the days are very full with little time for the internet so here are scraps of images made in the past few days. And I found a nice quote from a facebook contributor, perhaps by Billy Graham. “A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable”.