LIVING SIMPLY AS WENDY

Monday, September 5, 2011

A Weekend Of Camping

Grevillia flower - this is a tiny litle vase I keep on my kitchen windowsill. This is a beautiful flower and lasts for ages when I pick it.

Just look at the colours in this. The red edges look like satin. I just never get sick of looking at this flower.

This little spray of flowers above my kitchen sink is from a shrub that is absolutely covered in these pretty little pink flowers. The red flower beside it is from a bromilliad. They have the most strange and exotic flowers.

Camping at Karie Creek, Qld over the past weekend. Sunset from our camp site.

Fishing as the sun goes down.

The mangroves along the shore. Enlarge this photo and take a look. The trees look like they are creeping ahead to the water.

Little sandy beach area directly in front of our camp site. More fishing.

Sunset again.

Beach at low tide.

Heading out on the boat for some fishing.

Mangroves along the river.

I so love this photo. It is my favorite.

And this.....

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

IT'S A FOOLS GAME....

It's a fools game...
wishing
waiting
for something to happen
for someplace else to be....

I just read a post on Minimalist Lifestyle. Link below.
http://minimalistlifestyle.wordpress.com/2011/07/25/how-to-be-happy-now/#comment-355

What a timely post for me to read. And I would say timely for many other bloggers I have been reading lately. But for me it was a poke with a big stick - someone grabbing me by the shoulders and saying LISTEN.

I wrote a post the other day and even though it was a bit of humour it was also written from my truth as well. I WANT TO GO TO ITALY. I had read a book recently and it was all about italy and she painted such a lovely picture of it all that it just got my feet itching as usual. You see this is a problem.

If I am always wanting to be someplace else or always dreaming of things being finished, sorted, organised, perfected and just plain better than now - then how on earth can I be content and happy with now and what is happening now or what I have just completed and achieved in the present moment. I can't can I. I will always be itchy and fidgety and uptight and unsatisfied.

I don't want to be like that. I want to be content and appreciative and enjoy my life no matter what is happening.

Then I read this post an-authentic-self-through-creativity on the blog "Amanda Brooke - simple and creative living" and it was another confirmation for me to appreciatate now. Take notice of now. So in keeping with the advise on this post I have created a beautifully covered "Illustrated Discovery Journal". Similar to something I have done before but without the wishing. Just things that inspire and move me. Pictures, colours, fabrics etc etc. I am also going to create a page on this blog as well for pictures and things that I collect electronically and don't or can't print out.