The beach bits

The green bits

Yarra Valley

The Botanic Gardens

A couple and their dog walked into the frame as I snapped the shot of the bamboo grove.  They needn't have apologised, they really did improve the shot.

The quirky bits

Saw this print at a gallery window and couldn't resist getting it. Lugged it back, and now I'm going to have to get it framed.

Artwork at Yering winery

The welcome sign at The Innocent Bystander in Healsville, a winery/eatery in the Yarra Valley. 

Here be (little) dragons.

I love how they set out chairs in public spaces. You're invited to have a seat.  Rest and relax. Leave chairs out like this at home, and people will literally take a seat. 

What not to call the in-laws.

Sculpture of three commuters.

Wonder what he saw.

Pigs might fly on top of lamp posts.

The getaway suitcase

Jet set

I started the day talking to P in her apartment, sitting across from her at her dining table.

And I ended the day chatting to her, sitting at the Mac at my desk, thousands of miles away.

The suitcase is lying open on the floor, contents all jumbled up as I took my time to unpack. The dogs are sniffing at everything, trying to work out where I've been. How different does another hemisphere smell?

Tea time

... with the cute new doggy mug

Day off

... with cup cakes. Bought, not made. I'd never be able to do anything like this in a  million years.

'Atas' chips

Cheese and onion is so hoi polloi when you can have cheddar ... and mature cheddar at that.

Traditional breakfast

... at a non-breakfast hour. L bought me soon kueh.

Balanced meal

Protein, carbo, veg -- all groups in the food pyramid met.

Little things

A friend recently moved to Australia. I miss her, and then I don't. It's a funny in-between feeling. Yes, I miss that she isn't actually around. No, I don't miss her because we still do pretty much what we've always done -- chat over the Internet. Even when she was here, we didn't meet up that much, but "talked" almost everyday. It is just that now, the little green light next to her name on the chat window is lighting up from a different hemisphere. A little thing that you'd not realise if you didn't think about it.

I've already got a ticket booked to go visit her in November. And even before that holiday starts, there are other little things are beginning to make me smile. For instance, I've had to create a new Oz2 folder in my email to organise all the emails and plans for this Oz holiday. The Oz1 folder still has photos and emails from the Bondi Rescue lifeguards from the Sydney holiday of two years ago.

Just yesterday, I had to get a new bottle of facial moisturiser. I was trying to choose which one to get, and picked the one that came with SPF30 sunblock. Because this new bottle will definitely last me till November, and I will definitely need sunblock for the Australian summer sun.

Woah, I'm so thinking of little details, and so far ahead.

Breakfast

A bowl of cornflakes isn't worth a picture,
but my pretty new cup and saucer is.