Photo set } Indian portraits
I’ve been getting asked what my favourite thing about India was, and though it sounds cliché – it really was the people. I don’t know if it’s the sheer population that makes for so much human interaction, but there’s such a sense of openness and heart that just floors you completely.
Photo set } violets & yellows
We’ve had flowers galore around our pad this week. With the sunshine returning to Sydney, bright colours are so brilliantly blinding after days of grey. So it’s been perfect to have some blooms prettily sitting about the place. Aren’t the pom pom daisies just smashing?! Husband always seems to find the most interested bunch from [...]
photo set } Seaside souls
Hey hey and happy weekend! Don’t know about you, but things for me have been heckers this week. So, I’m planning to seriously unwind with two of my fave gals of all time to do the east side sea side walk just like we did last Saturday. Hope we see whales again this week! I’ve [...]
Photo set } Wedding orchids
A couple of weeks back on a stormy Saturday, there was a break in the weather timed perfectly for the wedding of two of my dearest friends. Perched on a hill in front of the Opera House flanked by the Harbour Bridge, the happy couple vowed away while the sun sparkled through the trees onto [...]
Photo set } Snap Dragons
Flicking though my photo files I came across these gorgeously velvety shots I took last October… a mahogany bunch of snap dragons gifted from the husband. Sweet isn’t he?! I don’t know how I forgot about these but it felt like finding a fiver in my jeans pocket. I love it when that happens! Snap Dragons [...]
Photo set } Bondi to Bronte
Sitting here this week you wouldn’t believe it was above 20ºC on the weekend – it’s sooo c-c-cold!!! I guess sometimes we don’t realise how good we have it in Sydney, really, when the sun comes out the coastline turns on a magnificent show, just like it did last Sunday. The Bondi to Bronte walk is a [...]
Garden stalk
The best thing about living in a tiny apartment with no yard in a snooty neighbourhood is that you get to spy on lovely houses with beautiful gardens. So I’ve been out papping the neighbours and planning and dreaming of the garden I might one day have (only in my dreams will it be in [...]
The {many} parks of Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is a city that really gets the urban/nature ratio spot on. They love a good monument for one (not to mention all the dogs) so surrounding trees and greens come in next. Plazas & Parques around every corner mean you’ve always got a spot to stop and have a sandwich… which rates highly [...]
{photo set} Seal rocks
Hi guys… hope you had a top weekend. ‘But it’s Wednesday?!’ I hear you say. Well, to me it feels like Tuesday. Why? Cause I took a couple of days off and went up the coast for a best friend’s 30th. So much fun! Have you been to Seal Rocks before? Gosh, it’s an amazing, [...]
{photo set} This little piggy went to market
Talk around town is that fruit & vegetable prices will reach the moon thanks to those recent nasty floods around Australia. Truth is, they’ve been sky rocketing for a while now at those big supermercardo chains, and no amount of sternly penned emails with change it…. trust my husband, he tried. If you’re lucky enough [...]
Riding New Zealand’s Mountain to Sea Trail
The New Zealand National Cycleway is a government initiated project opening up some of the most beautiful parts of New Zealand to cyclists. The Mountain to Sea Trail is one of these Great Rides and it will eventually be a 245km trail from Ohakune at the base of Mt Ruapehu all the way to the [...]
{photo set} Fig lined avenue
I figgin’ love my street. Yeah, you read right: figgin’ fig trees. I loved this street even before I saw the house. It was a drizzly September afternoon when I first walked down this leafy lane to inspect the last apartment on my long list of rentals, or should say ‘ran down’ because I was [...]
{photoset} Summer still life
Australian Summertime, to me, is defined by fruit. Magnificent mangoes. Cheerful cherries. Perfectly plump peaches. Luscious lychees. Creamy, creamy avocadoes. Run-down-your-elbows juicy oranges. When I was a kid, my Grandma used to send us a box of mangoes every Christmas. She lived in [rss-cut]Mount Isa in north-west Queensland and was blessed with a giant mango [...]
{photo set} rock moss
Praying for another Saturday morning like last week: crisp, still air, with the light glistening all green, navy and gold. With a super low tide, the mossy rocks at south Maroubra were a colourful sight in the early glow, so sweet to be outside. Have yourself a nice weekend now. X [rss-cut]
{photo set} Aerial
I am fascinated with planes – you? Whenever I fly, no matter how mundane the trip, I’m like a giddy kid at the check-in counter, I skip down the accordion boarding tunnel to my window seat (carefully chosen online the day before) and play with everything in the seat pocket as soon as I sit [...]
{photo set} Night noodles
Every October hundreds of city folk flock to Hyde Park for the Night Noodle Markets as part of the Sydney Crave International Food Festival. It’s a sensory overload really, stepping out of the office into a sweet spring evening with a bunch of friends, sharing delicious exotic dishes under the glow of oriental lanterns with [...]
{photo set} Poppies & peonies
I’ve been so gosh darn busy lately I haven’t had a spare second to stop and smell the roses, let alone the poppies and peonies! A month or so ago (back when I had spare time) I threw a dinner party and, thanks to my fabulous friends and their kind generosity in petals, left my [...]
{photo set} Country hens
Last weekend I went away with a fab bunch of girls for a dearly beloved friend’s (soon to be lovely sister IL) hens weekend in the country (picture too much food, wine, giggling and costumes – yep, no boys in sight!) After a four hour trek getting lost in the dark on a very looooong [...]
{photo set} Creatures on the Kalahari
This week’s set comes not from my lens but that of incredibly talented South African photographer Hannes Lochner. As a lover of cats and black & white photography I was so taken aback by these shots – things this special simply must be shared around! Taken over a two year period in the Kalahari Desert, [...]
{photo set} This is park life
Have I mentioned September is my absolute favourite month? It’s not hard to see why — glorious blue skies; light breezes; bright, bright sunlight sans burn. Last Saturday was a storybook scene in Centennial Park: laughing picnickers, ball-kicking kids, fluffy ducklings, babies in prams – I swear it could have been a washing powder commercial. [...]
{photo set} Foamball
It was a white-washy old afternoon at Maroubra beach last Sunday, the foam was so thick you’d swear you could pin it on the shore like the edge of a blanket to stop it from rushing back to the sea. The air was crisp and golden — made for some nice imagery. Have a great [...]
{photo set} Spring has sprung!
I love Spring for many, many reasons – one being the spectacular David Jones annual Flower Show. This year marks the event’s 25th anniversary and, my oh my, the occasion is being celebrated with suitably breathtaking displays. Showing until September 12th at their Sydney Elizabeth Street store, you simply must drop by if you’re in [...]
{photo set} Swell, just swell.
My husband surfs. A lot. I figured if we were to see each other regularly I should take up surfing, so three years ago I did just that. But when it’s too big for me (which is most of the time), I take photos. These were shot on a cold May morning when a large [...]
{photo set} You can Hyde in the city
Some mornings I hop off the bus a few stops early to walk through Hyde Park in a last second attempt to save myself from the city, even if just for 5 minutes. On crystal clear days, like the one below, there’s something so magical about sunlight sparkling through the leaves, the comforting canopy of [...]
