Saturday, 26 April 2025

SATURDAY CITTERS

This week the photographs were taken by Danny’s, one of my birding friends from Northern Ireland. These are Pale bellied Brent geese.

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Friday, 25 April 2025

WEEKEND REFLECTIONS AND THE WEEKEND ROUNDUP

Time for Weekend Reflections and The Weekend Roundup and the letter is Q and Queen.    The first shot is my STREET PHOTOGRAPHY and is when my daughter and I visited my nephew on the Gold Coast and we had a BBQ near the beach. The second shot is of a QUANTAS plane and my final shot of a boat called the QUEEN of Ulster.






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Thursday, 24 April 2025

GOOD FENCES

My friend Alan sent me this photograph recently as he knew I would not have this blossom flowering at this time of the year in Cairns.



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Wednesday, 23 April 2025

AFRICAN MANTIS

This is an African Mantis taken my Danny, one of my birding friends.



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Tuesday, 22 April 2025

WILD BIRD WEDNESDAY

These photographs were taken by Danny, one of my Northern Ireland birding friends,  They were taken at the Quoile hide.  They  Black Guillemot in summer plumage.

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Monday, 21 April 2025

THROUGH MY LENS

This week the photographs were taken by Danny’s, one of my birding friends from Northern Ireland. This is the American Ring necked duck found at Lurgan Balancing Lakes. 

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Sunday, 20 April 2025

SUNDAY THOUGHT - HE IS RISEN

But I have calmed and quieted myself, I am like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child I am content.


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Saturday, 19 April 2025

SATURDAY CRITTERS

 I found this chap at my swimming pool . 

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Friday, 18 April 2025

WEEKEND REFLECTIONS AND THE WEEKEND ROUNDUP

  Time for Weekend Reflections and The Weekend Roundup and the letter is P and Plenty.   We have a movie every Saturday evening and this resident brings PLENTY of POPCORN for everyone who wants it.  I am using this PHOTOGRAPH as my STREET PHOTOGRAPHY today.  The final shot are 3 PRETTY Irish colleens on St PATRICK’S Day.

 


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Thursday, 17 April 2025

GOOD FENCES

My friend Alan sent me this photograph recently and it is of the Walled Garden in Bangor Co Down.


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Wednesday, 16 April 2025

Stone Curlew

These are a few more shots of the Stone Curlew.



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Tuesday, 15 April 2025

WI LD BIRD WEDNESDAY

These birds are Stone Curlew.

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Monday, 14 April 2025

THROUGH MY LENS

These are a few more photographs I took while visiting my nephew at the Gold Coast, Queensland.

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Photographs were takne at the Gold Coast, Queensland.

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Sunday, 13 April 2025

SUNDAY THOUGHT

 The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.

Psalm 93:4


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Photograph takne at the Gold Coast, Queensland.

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Saturday, 12 April 2025

SATURDAY CRITTERS

The birds are Straw necked Ibis and White-breasted Woodswallow.

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Friday, 11 April 2025

WEEKEND REFLECTIONS AND THE WEEKEND ROUNDUP

Time for Weekend Reflections and The Weekend Roundup and the letter is O and Orange.This climbing plant has beautiful ORANGE flowers.  It is in a garden of a friend of mine at Botanica.  The penultimate shot was taken many years ago in Belfast and is a REFLECTION of an ORANGE buoy in Belfast Harbour.  This shot was taken in Donegal by Alan and is of the Atlantic OCEON. Does anyone remember X's O's?  The "O"s are ORANGE in this shot.



 






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Sunday, 6 April 2025

SUNDAY THOUGHT

 "Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me.

Psalm 42:7


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Photograph takne at Millaa Millaa Falls, Queensland.

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Saturday, 5 April 2025

SATURDAY CRITTERS

A friend at Botanica Lifestyle Resort photographed this White – lipped Tree frog and my second shot was photographed once again while I was playing lawn bowls at Trinity Beach. These are Wallabies.

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Friday, 4 April 2025

WEEKEND REFLECTIONS AND THE WEEKEND ROUNDUP

Time for Weekend Reflections and The Weekend Roundup and the letter N and Neon.  There are no NEON signs where I live so a friend in Northern Ireland went walking looking for NEON signs to photograph for me and these are the NUMEROUS NEON signs he produced for me. My final  shot is my daughter Judith just lying back and relaxing in the pool at my nephew's home on the Gold Coast Thuis will  my STREET PHOTOGRAPHY shot. 







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Thursday, 3 April 2025

GOOD FENCES

These Hymenocallis Spider Lily flowers are on the outside of our tennis courts at Botanica Lifestyle Resort, Cairns, Queensland.


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Wednesday, 2 April 2025

Clouds Over Botanica

On my way to the swimming pool, I photographed these early morning sunrise clouds at Botanica Lifestyle Resort. 


 

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Tuesday, 1 April 2025

WILD BIRD WEDNESDAY

These birds are Sulphur –crested Cockatoo that I photographed at my nephew’s home on the Gold Coast.

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