After spending the day at the Golden Valley Tree Farm, John at the last minute decided to make a quick stop at the Wellington Dam Mural. I am so glad he did, this was a real treat to see. Since it wasn’t a planned trip, I had little knowledge of...
Donnybrook is a town situated between Boyanup and Kirup on the South Western Highway, 210 kilometres (130 mi) south of Perth, Western Australia. The town is the centre of apple production in Western Australia. The town is also known for its picturesque abundance of English Oak trees, as well as...
Normally when we go to see a sunset at the ocean, we just head west from our house to the nearest beach but this particular day, we thought it might be more interesting from Fremantle, and it was a good choice. There weren’t a lot of clouds in the sky,...
As typical in summer here in Western Australia, there are bushfires that sprout up all around us. In fact, one was big and near. When the evening cools, we like to sit on our veranda and watch the sunset. The smoke, however, gives the sky and sunset a different look....
At some point in my stay here in Perth, I started to concede that I would not be going home for Laura’s birthday, Thanksgiving, nor for Christmas. I had resigned to open up the internet and shop for my family the best way I could. Gradually, I got used to...
Staying at Siesta Park, makes it easy for the orchid hunter, like us, to access where they grow. So we started our orchid hunting day early. Soon we were off, looking for the spots our book that mentions where orchids can be found. Drakaea is a genus of 10 species...
When we first decided to go to Kojonup, it was to see the Everlastings at Lucinda’s. When we contacted Lucinda’s we found out that it was too late to see the flowers, but we decided to go to Kojonup anyway. For one thing, we had never been there together, and...
Usually when we want to photograph a sunset, we make a rush to the coast. That coast isn’t called the ‘Sunset Coast’ for nothing, it’s a perfect sunset location. This time however, we decided on a different location: Perry’s Paddock at Yellagonga Regional Park. Perry’s Paddock is named after John...
When we stopped at Cervantes, we picked up a brochure for Lesueur National Park and decided to go there. Lesueur National Park covers 26,987 hectares and is recognised for its outstanding conservation, landscape and recreational importance. It is home to over 900 plant species – 10 per cent of Western...
After hunting for orchids on Johnston Road, it was time to go home. In spring, our weekends are a lot about Orchid hunting, and it often means we have a long way to go to find them. But you know what? Sometimes we don’t make it all the way that...
Something happened on our way to the beach. We went to another beach. Scarborough Beach (You’re spoiled for choice here in Western Australia)
This was going to be my first Sculptures by the Sea. I don’t know why we hadn’t gone any of the summers I had been here before. This year, we went twice. (Something that just seems to happen, that we have to go to the same event twice). Given that...
So, leaving on a jet plane, again. That song even came on the car radio. (The John Denver version). So Perth to Baltimore Soon again Baltimore to Perth. I will always be returning. Ya soc aqui!
For our third walk of the day, (not bad for a recovering sprained ankle?), we went on the Tuart Walk. The highlight of this walk are the majestic tuart trees which grow up to 40 metres high and occur in the 420 kilometre strip between Busselton in the south to...
So we had been to Canal Rocks before, and I loved it, but we hadn’t ever been there at sunset. This time after parking instead of walking to the right, John took my hand to walk over the rocks and find a nice spot to the left. Now I was...
So we decided on a weekend get-a-way. John got off early from work and we traveled south and west from Perth. It’s a beautiful area with rolling vineyards sitting against a backdrop of ocean and forest, pristine beaches, small country towns, and natural wonders. One of the first things we...
After our walk around Lightning Swamp, instead of going home as planned, John decided we had time to get to the beach for what might be a good sunset. As we got close to the beach, we were a little early, so John looked for a lookout which gave us...
Often when I am in Perth, John takes me to see the sunset. We usually go on days when the sky looks like it has potential for a dramatic sunset. There was potential on this particular evening. So my first week back, staying awake and staying asleep BOTH have...
PERTH It was the day I was dreading since I arrived. The day that I have experienced a few times now since John and I got married. It’s like an out of body experience. you’re watching yourself pack and leave your husband. It doesn’t seem real, and each time, it...
Don’t you hate it when you set off for King’s Park in Perth and get side tracked to City Beach? John and I were on our way to King’s Park and then we changed our mind and went to City Beach. There was supposed to be a sandcastle making competition...
So on our road trip I noticed how full the moon was at Northam, and thought, hmmmm, full moon and a trip to the Pinnacles might be fun. How wonderful would it be to get those formations with the moon rising behind them? So John didn’t get much of a...
From the rising of the sun to its setting The name of the LORD is to be praised. Psalm 113:3 The sun goes down everywhere, but some places are more lovely to watch a sunset than others. Often we dash to the beach to watch the sunset but the last...
Things you remember as a child… My mom turned on the movie Born Free one evening, she made a big deal out of it, and I was instantly in love with lions and of all things, the Indian Ocean. There was one part of the movie where the lion cubs...
With only a short time left to my stay, John and I headed out to the Indian Oceanside for one last sunset together in 2013. We tried out our new video camera on the sunset:
John has been extremely diligent in making sure I get to see as many Indian Ocean sunsets as possible. Given this time to Perth there has been a lot of rain and clouds, there were days there just wasn’t any sun. This day, we were taken by surprise and decided...
John knows I like to head to the beach or the nearest windmill for a nice sunset, but I was so tired from our day out at Camel Soaks and long hikes to holes in the ground and such, that I said, “Today, let’s not GO to a sunset, let’s...
“For a while” is a phrase whose length can’t be measured.At least by the person who’s waiting.” ~ Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun If saying good-bye to my husband, being injured and worried, and a long trip ahead of me wasn’t tragic enough, I had...
We went off to look at what looked like it could be a nice sunset. To the beach in a hurry and we barely arrived in time. It was a lovely sunset and as we were walking towards it, we looked back to the houses that were perched there and...
Any day that looks like it might have an interesting sky for sunset, we usually head out to the beach. It was a nice way to wind down John’s birthday.
The actual Valentine’s Day was a sweet, intimate, evening together, with a lovely sweet end of a precious sunset right outside our house.
God’s beauty is displayed in every sunset, His renown blazes brighter than every star, His grace is sweeter than honey. The world that surrounds us declares the glory of God! As a painting dimly captures the beauty of nature, so does nature itself dimly capture His splendor. The sky is...
