Whoa! 2 days ticking over on the clock and 1930km ticking over on the odometer. How was your weekend? I drove for just over 20 hours to spend 18 hours in Cloncurry.
North west is a happy direction for me to be heading because it means I'm going home to family, and that's kind of what I did
yesterday. Well, almost home. Four hours' drive from home (and luckily
too, because those extra eight hours of driving would not have been
good). My boy is spending his school holidays similarly to how I spent
mine in high school - helping at the service station. Mum, Dad, my
brother and his family went to Cloncurry to compete at the Annual Shoot
at the Clay Target Club this weekend and we met them there. It's kind of
cute that my parents refer to my son and I collectively as "The kids". I
wonder how many times over the next fortnight they will accidentally
call my son by my brother's name...
During my 20 hour round trip I took note of how many
roadside conveniences there now are on that highway. It's been a while
since I've travelled that way (and incidentally it's been a very long
time since I've seen it so green for so far, with so many birds!), and
now there's plenty of places to stop. I made an observation... when it's
five degrees outside those five degrees whistle breezily in through the many
gaps in the structure. I'm not
sure it was the five degrees that I was noticing, (or more likely the
absence of the extra 20 degrees that I require for optimal comfort) or
the effect the breeze was having. If your preferred public toilet
procedure is to line the seat with loo paper you have a problem. Said
paper does not stay put under those conditions, especially when the seat
isn't quite flat (seriously, do people actually choose those moulded
rounded seats?). I began to wonder whether ducking off into the bush
for a comfort stop might have been a better plan, especially since I
have an unrealistic, yet real fear of accidentally dropping my phone
into the loo, but I do appreciate the hand washing facilities and the
bins. Thanks to the crews who maintain these facilities, and the
respectful people who make use of them without trashing the place.
This week's 52Frames topic is "What Is It?", and I
submitted my entry earlier this week, thinking that I would be pushed
for time come the deadline (and I was right - I barely had time to write and post this, such that it is). I actually played a bit of
"What is it?" along the way today. Travelling solo I was able to take
advantage of many opportunities to stop and photograph plants to
identify. It was a good little break for me because usually by the time I
noticed the tree/shrub, hit the anchors and pulled over I had to walk
back to get a closer look.
Last week's topic was "Shoot from above", and lacking
the motivation (and willing male child participant) to drive out to the
Dam and take a portrait shot looking down from the rocks I shot eggs on
the kitchen bench (and desaturated the horrid pink toned laminate).
Next week is Week 26, so in the challenge I'll be
halfway there (insert mondegreen "woah lemon on a pear"). I'll make it I
swear!
It's been quite a party, ain't it
Purple Fairy
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