Photography project on a wet windy day

 We have had wet wild and windy weather here last week - two big storms within three days with cyclonic gale force winds, trees and fences down, roofs lost, boats wrenched from their moorings, trampolines tossed about, and power outages (some people without power for 1, 2 or 3 days - my friend was without power for 6 days!)  We lost part of our back side fence and lost power on Monday 6.30am to 4pm, and then Tuesday night when the second round of storms came, from 6.15pm till sometime in the early morning hours. 

An image I took in the dark on Tuesday night.....had to adjust the levels so you can see it!

The power is now back on and all is calm - so what would you do for a day without power?

Here are a few wintery images from around my garden.....

Monday is my day off my paid work - so this is what I did without power last Monday - 

- rummaged in the camper trailer to find a kettle so I could boil some water for a cuppa on the BBQ wok burner. Do you know the you can heat soup on there pretty well too for your lunch - a wok burner has a host of uses. Dragged out some candles in case we needed them tonight.

- brought in wood and lit the fire

- spent an hour or so photographing a few vegies in natural light outside under the patio - well that's all the light there was today - it was a good exercise for my food photography using TV priority. 

- when it stopped raining I pruned the lavender bush, and chopped out one that had died,  picked up fallen oranges from under the orange tree, and took some photos around the garden.

- rang the RAC & reported our claim for the fallen fence.

- edited a travel article. 

- spoke to my son and my father.

- delivered my husband up to school at 7am - he took kids on an overnight camp in Perth today!!!....fun! 

- sorted through a whole heap of dragon boat paper work going back years and ditched it all - they say clearing out is good for the soul. I can now see the corner of my study - well sort of - there is still a box of dragon boat stuff there....couldn't throw all of it - too many good memories. 

- decided the only thing in my fridge that really needed to be kept really cold was the milk and the sliced ham and left over roast chicken, so put them in the freezer. Lucky it was cold today. Everything in the fridge and freezer has survived. 

- My youngest son was sent home from work, as they closed the workshop, so have had his company today - he has been sitting doing his Word Sleuths all day. As soon as the power came back on at 4pm he turned on the "Wii" straight away!

*** What I didn't do - sit on the computer all day!!!! 

Here is some images from Monday......taken in natural light on my back patio.....
Peas.......

Garlic....sprouted!..... 

Honey fresh from our friends hives....sweet and delicious.............

some autumn leaves..........

last few lavender blooms...........

Raindrops on leaves...........

and a rosebud sheltered by the opening petals of the white rose -
with words from Mother Teresa......

"It is not what we do but how much love we put into doing it"   (Extract from her address in Rome May 1982)

for Kim's Beyond Layers e-class using her texture "peony'.

I've used 2 layers of the "peony" texture in "soft light" mode. 

To everyone in the South West of Western Australia, I hope you all came through the storm, and didn't suffer too much damage. 

I am linking up to Mosaic Monday at Little Red House. To see beautiful images from Mary and the other wonderful contributors at Mosaic Monday please click on the link - Mosaic Monday

Have a wonderful week.

I value your comments and I look forward to hearing from you.