Photopalooza 1...

All photos taken by me.

Photopalooza 3...

Sunsets from the end of my street....









All photos taken by me on walks by the lake.

The Future...

No one today can make better use of the English language than Mr. Leonard Cohen. I am just taken away when I hear his songs. Especially The Future....

The Future

Give me back my broken night
my mirrored room, my secret life
it's lonely here,
there's no one left to torture
Give me absolute control
over every living soul
And lie beside me, baby,
that's an order!
Give me crack and anal sex
Take the only tree that's left
and stuff it up the hole
in your culture
Give me back the Berlin wall
give me Stalin and St Paul
I've seen the future, brother:
it is murder.

Things are going to slide, slide in all directions
Won't be nothing
Nothing you can measure anymore
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world
has crossed the threshold
and it has overturned
the order of the soul
When they said REPENT REPENT
I wonder what they meant
When they said REPENT REPENT
I wonder what they meant
When they said REPENT REPENT
I wonder what they meant

You don't know me from the wind
you never will, you never did
I'm the little jew
who wrote the Bible
I've seen the nations rise and fall
I've heard their stories, heard them all
but love's the only engine of survival
Your servant here, he has been told
to say it clear, to say it cold:
It's over, it ain't going
any further
And now the wheels of heaven stop
you feel the devil's riding crop
Get ready for the future:
it is murder

Things are going to slide ...

There'll be the breaking of the ancient
western code
Your private life will suddenly explode
There'll be phantoms
There'll be fires on the road
and the white man dancing
You'll see a woman
hanging upside down
her features covered by her fallen gown
and all the lousy little poets
coming round
tryin' to sound like Charlie Manson
and the white man dancin'

Give me back the Berlin wall
Give me Stalin and St Paul
Give me Christ
or give me Hiroshima
Destroy another fetus now
We don't like children anyhow
I've seen the future, baby:
it is murder

Things are going to slide ...

When they said REPENT REPENT ...

Sharkwater...

Sharkwater is an absolute must see movie. The majestic beauty of these misunderstood animals is awe inspiring. The way and numbers in which we kill them for their fins is sickening. In the time it took to watch the movie more than 15,000 sharks were slaughtered worldwide. Makes me ashamed to be human to see what we have done to decimate sharks and countless other species of marine and wildlife in the name of profit. 

We are definitely "primates out of control"....

Sharkwater is also affiliated with the web site savingsharks.com. Go there and become informed.

BBC Day In Pictures...

Nice image from the BBC's Day In Pictures (photo #6).



From the BBC site:

A man appears to be wading out to sea to welcome a tall ship as it approaches Liverpool, England. The figure is actually part of sculptor Antony Gormley's Another Place installation.

Summertime...

Nothing says summer to me like a BBQ dinner on the beach. We cooked up a big meal of wings, veggie-kabobs, veggies, pasta salad and a bumble berry pie (bought fresh from a local farmer) and took it all 15 minutes up the road to the beach. Had a great feast there with family & kids friends and then a nice long swim afterward.... I just love sitting on the beach people watching. And what a perfect weekend it was for the beach. All the local beaches were the most crowded I've seen them this season. Still about half the regular boat traffic compared to previous years though. Not that I'm complaining....

Red, red wine.... Had several glasses of a nice South Australian Shiraz after we got back home. Doctor's orders that I have a glass of red wine a day. So if one glass a day is good for me then several glasses a day must be even better - yeah, that's how it works....

Better stop at the liquor store on the way home....

Heron on dock...

Photo taken by me on a walk by the lake.

Sunshine...

          

Photos taken by me on a walk by the lake.

Jonathan Livingston Seagull...

Photos taken by me on a walk by the lake.

Bird on a wire...

Photos taken by me on walks by the lake.

Country road and water bird...

Photos taken by me on a walk by the lake.

Church rooftop...

Photo taken by me on a walk by the lake.

Tower and trees...

Photo taken by me on a walk by the lake.

Waves...

Photos taken by me on a walk by the lake.

Sunsets...

A couple of sunset shots from last night's walk.

Photos taken by me on a walk by the lake.

Following the curve...

Photo taken by me during a walk in a forest.

Winter drive home...

Photo taken by me on a winter drive home from work.

View from below...

Photo taken by me during a walk in a forest.