This stamp is looking a bit worse for wear. I kept it because I like the illlustration.
Archive for March, 2009
324. Multi-Coloured Rose
March 27, 2009
Photograph, February 2009.
Some of my readers may have heard of the terrible heatwave, bushfires and severe storms that have hit the state of Victoria, Australia, in the previous month. February is normally marked by uncomfortable heat, but this year was a record breaker in terms of temperature, and in the number of people killed by the bushfires. When, in early March, Victorians received text messages from the police warning of coming storms, it was time for more tension and fear. Thankfully those storms weren’t as devastating as initially expected, and the rains they brought were a definite blessing!
So it was nice that, in admist the chaos, my poor little pot plants actually survived. We had pretty much abandoned them in search of air conditioning, but here they were, still waiting. This rose bush produces these amazing multi-coloured red-and-yellow roses. I had intended to do a daily series of photographs of this bud flowering, but was distracted by the storm preparations…
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More information…
about bushfires and heatwaves in Victoria:
Google Image Search for Victorian bushfires
The March 2009 Text Message… – at news.com.au
Victoria’s Record Breaking Heatwave, 2009 – Bureau of Meteorology
All links accessed 5 March 2009.
Romanian Horse
March 24, 2009
I suspect this is a Lipizzaner. Wow, 1984. I was 2 years old then… How I ended up with this stamp, I’m not 100% sure.
323. Trotting Horse… Yes, another one
March 23, 2009
Felt tip marker on cream tinted paper, December 2008.
Horsey
Expo ’88
March 17, 2009
I have very vague childhood memories of my parents making the pilgrimage to Expo ’88, held in Brisbane in… umm 1988. I can barely remember it as I would’ve been about 6 years old at the time. I remember it resulted in a lifetime’s supply of trinkets that subsequently decorated our house.
322. Hill Thing
March 16, 2009
Pencil on paper, December 2008.
Ummm just playing around with imaginary landscape ideas…
