I took this photo at the Sydney Botanical Gardens in December of last year. He was strutting around and posing for all the tourists. To see more animal photos visit Camera Critters
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Pumpkins and Kitchen Gadgets
I promised Gabriele a pumpkin soup recipe. There are lots of variations of pumpkin soup. I make a vegetarian version and leave out the bacon. I replace the chicken stock with vegetable stock. knob of butter and a little olice oil 1 onion chopped 3 - 4 cloves of garlic...
A Large Muscular Bag…
Thirteen Things about STOMACHS I bet that title made you look. My post today is about stomachs, mainly because mine has been center-stage recently. I'm working to reduce the size of it. (on the outside) So, what is a stomach? 1. The stomach is a muscular organ. It can...
How Do You Keep Track of Your Characters?
Here's a question for all you writers out there - both aspiring and published. How do you keep track of a character's physical attributes, their quirks and baggage? Their family history? I'm forever forgetting what color eyes I've given my characters and little things...
Portrait of San Francisco
San Francisco would have to be one of my favorite cities to visit. I'm running a bit short of time today so I thought I'd post a few photos from our recent trip. I think I like San Francisco so much because of its situation on the sea. The hills are killers to walk up...
Killer Heels
Thirteen Things about High Heel Shoes I came across an article in our local paper about killer heels and how quite a few models were falling off their heels on the catwalk. This article inspired my TT today. 1. In 1533, Italian born Catherine de Medici brought high...
Deadwood, South Dakota
I first heard of Deadwood when the HBO show of the same name came out. I started to watch the first one and the swearing horrified me. I think I watched about the first ten minutes before I gave up. When we decided to visit South Dakota we discussed Deadwood and put...