tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88456999765252187692024-03-19T15:23:20.247+08:00Life Images by JillJill Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08484965955166744702noreply@blogger.comBlogger651125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845699976525218769.post-76049126665235664712024-03-18T11:53:00.003+08:002024-03-19T09:46:27.824+08:00Doodling on botanical-contact-eco-prints Hi everyone, looks like I have been missing in action. My last post on 25th February said where did February go? and I am thinking March is going much the same way. But I do have an excuse, I am getting ready for the annual Treet Street Art Safari on this coming Saturday 23 March. This is something I have been involved with for a few years now, at the home of my wonderful host Maggie, Jill Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08484965955166744702noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845699976525218769.post-89513098471506555152024-02-25T17:11:00.004+08:002024-02-27T13:01:29.372+08:00Where did February Go?Oh my goodness - February has gone in a blur - where did it go? Here today, gone tomorrow. I hope you and yours are doing well in these troubled times. It looks like I have been busy during February. 3rd February my husband and I were in the on-water control boat during an afternoon dragon boat regatta for our club, the Forza Dragon Boat Club, in Bunbury. The event was well supported byJill Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08484965955166744702noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845699976525218769.post-45408601258144247212024-01-29T16:22:00.012+08:002024-01-30T14:11:41.609+08:00Australia Day - I am, You Are, We Are Australian Friday 26 January was Australia Day - Australia Day is the official national day of Australia. Observed annually on 26 January, it marks the 1788 landing of the First Fleet and the raising of the Union Flag of Great Britain by Captain Arthur Phillip at Sydney Cove, a small bay on the southern shore of Sydney Harbour.In present-day Jill Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08484965955166744702noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845699976525218769.post-26303987615845482852024-01-15T16:10:00.002+08:002024-01-15T21:52:09.467+08:00Chinese Lantern Festival - The Year of the Dragon - 2024 Welcome everyone to the Year of the Dragon - allbeit slightly early. But on Saturday night we visited the Chinese Lantern Festival in our International Friendship Garden. The Lantern Festival aims to promote reconciliation, peace, and forgiveness. The holiday marks the first full moon of the new lunar year and the end of the Chinese New Year. Chūn Jié, in China, marks the Jill Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08484965955166744702noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845699976525218769.post-63908702292052580332024-01-09T06:47:00.006+08:002024-01-09T07:08:52.124+08:002023 ends... and so 2024 begins..2023 ends and so 2024 begins - but what to write? 2023, all things considered was a good year, with health, travel, art and family. I hope it was the same for you and yours, and if not, I pray that you have found a way through the troubles, and I wish you new beginnings and a better 2024. I wonder what 2024 will bring. My hopes other than happiness and health for my family and friends is Jill Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08484965955166744702noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845699976525218769.post-31782961937216604292023-12-24T14:42:00.007+08:002023-12-26T20:07:01.545+08:00A Christmas wish for youHi everyone, tis the night before Christmas, and I began thinking about the people I know that will have someone missing from their Christmas table for the first time this year, as I did back in 2014 when my darling father passed away a couple of months before Christmas, and then my mother-in-law on Boxing Day of the same year. I lost my dear Aunt earlier this year, and I am thinking about how myJill Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08484965955166744702noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845699976525218769.post-64582161476317857072023-12-11T16:28:00.006+08:002023-12-12T08:34:41.849+08:00Colour in my December summer garden I love my December summer front garden. Every year it blooms glorious colours - red, yellow, pink, bluey mauve - and best of all these plants come back year after year with little maintenance. They bloom, I water and clip them back a little, and next summer they bloom again. Beautiful. So today I share some of them with you. (My apologies for this post Jill Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08484965955166744702noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845699976525218769.post-16044008570507866392023-11-27T16:26:00.003+08:002023-11-28T11:20:18.222+08:00Art Market in the Garden Hi everyone, I hope you and yours are doing well. Just a short post from me today. I am winding down from a busy few weeks and weekend. On Sunday I had a market stall at the Stirling Street Art Centre in my hometown. It was there annual Art in the Garden market. A great place to buy products created by local artisans - everything from soap and candles to clothing, art pieces, pottery, Jill Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08484965955166744702noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845699976525218769.post-20394344938096288002023-11-11T15:31:00.009+08:002023-11-13T15:41:58.092+08:00Remembrance Day - 11th November The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month attained a special significance in the post-war years after World War 1 . The moment when hostilities ceased on the Western Front in 1918 became universally associated with the remembrance of those who had died in the war. On the first anniversary of the Armistice in 1919 two minutes' silence was instituted as part of the main Jill Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08484965955166744702noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845699976525218769.post-89228442196829508502023-11-06T17:20:00.002+08:002023-11-07T09:41:42.944+08:00Eco-printing and Coreopsis Hi everyone, I hope you and yours are doing well. This time of year - November and December - summer - the Coreopsis in my garden comes alive. I love it. The bees love them too. But as well as making a fantastic bright border plant in my front garden that I have to do nothing to other than cutting off the dead heads, and which comes back year after year - even in winter the Jill Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08484965955166744702noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845699976525218769.post-43020509624209833022023-10-23T14:10:00.011+08:002023-10-28T14:11:00.529+08:00World Kangaroo Day - 24 October 2023 Hi everyone. I hope you and yours are doing well. I learnt yesterday that it is World Kangaroo Day on Tuesday 24 October 2023. The first World Kangaroo Day was held in 2020. I know my overseas visitors enjoy seeing my kangaroo pics, especially when I randomly say I come across them when we are out bushwalking. Here is one we interrupted having his lunch at Carnarvon Gorge Jill Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08484965955166744702noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845699976525218769.post-62918292396518646732023-10-10T17:15:00.002+08:002023-10-10T17:27:35.941+08:00150th Anniversary of the Mourambine Church, 1873-2023 - Western Australia On the 24th September this year we were priviledged to attend a church service to celebrate the 150th Year of the Consecreation of St Patrick's church in the tiny town of Mourambine near Pingelly in Western Australi's wheatbelt. I know 150 years is not a lot in terms of the history of some countries, but for Australia it is. To put it in perspective, the first European settlement in Western Jill Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08484965955166744702noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845699976525218769.post-61388013566200418822023-10-02T13:19:00.005+08:002023-10-02T21:56:07.169+08:00Perth weekend snaps - Western Australia HI everyone, I hope you and yours are well.Just a quick post from me today. We had a weekend in Perth catching up with family and friends. While we were there we took a ride on the train - something we hadn't done before. I didn't have time to wander... but here are a few quick random pics from our quick walk through Perth (Western Australia's capital city) to the central train station.&Jill Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08484965955166744702noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845699976525218769.post-63246593941140898262023-09-26T16:01:00.003+08:002023-09-27T10:50:08.390+08:00Fremantle West Australia & the 40th Anniversary of Australia's 1983 win of the America's CupDid you know that it is the 40th Anniversary of one of Australiá's biggest international sporting achievements? Fremantle in Western Australia has been celebrating this event over the weekend. On 26
September 1983, the yacht Australia II, skippered by John
Bertrand, made history by winning the oldest sporting trophy in the
world, the America’s Cup, when they took it from the New Jill Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08484965955166744702noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845699976525218769.post-70442197951365327452023-09-18T13:52:00.007+08:002023-12-05T14:36:48.496+08:00McKinlay Queensland, Australia - and Crocodile DundeeHi everyone, I hope you and yours are doing well. Last week I introduced you to the Australian Brolga and the first part of our Queensland road trip across Australia. If you missed it you can see it here - Sighting the Australian Brolga.Today I am sharing some more of our trip with something a little different - Walkabout Creek Hotel at McKinlay in Queensland - one of the filming locations Jill Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08484965955166744702noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845699976525218769.post-51077776646379939942023-09-03T14:15:00.004+08:002023-09-05T14:06:13.489+08:00Sighting the Australian Brolga We have been away on a long caravan trip around Australia for the last nine weeks. 15,561.9 kilometres in 9 weeks - a long way. Our destination was Queensland on the eastern side of Australia, but regardless if you go over the top of Australia to get there from the south west corner of Western Australia (where I live), or choose to go across the bottom, it is about 5,500 kilometres just to Jill Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08484965955166744702noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845699976525218769.post-90136788528655504152023-08-11T15:27:00.003+08:002023-08-11T15:27:28.125+08:00The wildflowers are blooming in the Western Australian Kimberley north west regionWe might feel like we are in the depths of winter here in the South West of Western Australia, but it is wildflower time. Followers to my blog might know that photographing wildflowers is a passion of mine, so this is my favourite time of year. Usually I have to wait till September to get out and about taking photos of wildflowers, but I was lucky that my wildflower experience started in late Jill Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08484965955166744702noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845699976525218769.post-53847873241587922992023-07-31T14:53:00.004+08:002023-07-31T14:53:40.007+08:00Let's bake muffins Hi everyone. I hope you and yours are doing well. During the Covid lockdown in early 2020, my husband started baking muffins once every couple of weeks. There are lots of recipes on the net. I thought I might share with you the one he uses. They freeze well and you can heat them up in the microwave for breakfast - but I suggest you take them out the night before. This recipe came Jill Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08484965955166744702noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845699976525218769.post-19536710946493968672023-07-18T09:35:00.008+08:002023-12-05T14:07:45.705+08:00Experimenting with wet cyanotype Hi everyone. I hope you and yours are doing well. Last December I blogged about the basics for Cyanotype printing. ie using the sun to do prints. If you missed it you can take a look here - Cyanotype sun prints - how to - the basicsI am certainly not an expert and there are lots of llinks on the net to learn more. Recently I have started experimenting with wet cyanotype. You Jill Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08484965955166744702noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845699976525218769.post-81347853470647857672023-07-04T10:19:00.000+08:002023-07-04T10:19:05.951+08:00Banksia or Dryandra? Western Australia Hi everyone, I hope you and yours are doing well. The last couple of posts I have taken you to the Dryandra Woodland National Park in Western Australia. And I shared there an image of a Dryandra flower. But is it a Dryandra or a Banksia? Since about 2007 there has been some discussion about this when the Dryandras were combined with Banksias. Below you can see the stages of Jill Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08484965955166744702noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845699976525218769.post-56321647304824155502023-06-17T16:57:00.008+08:002023-06-22T11:45:09.728+08:00Walking through the mallet trees in the Dryandra Woodland, Western Australia Hi everyone - I hope you and yours are doing well. Last time we met I took you to the Dryandra Woodland National Park where we met an echidna. If you missed it you can see it by clicking here - Meeting an Echidna in the Dryandra WoodlandThis week we are going back to Dryandra to learn about the brown mallet tree industry. Have you ever wondered where the hard wood of your axe Jill Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08484965955166744702noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845699976525218769.post-86767958255959627912023-06-05T14:33:00.008+08:002023-06-07T13:28:48.996+08:00Meeting an Echinda in the Dryandra Woodland National Park, Western AustraliaHe wasn't waiting for anyone to take his photo - this hurrying bundle of spines. We have just returned from a couple of nights in the Dryandra Woodland National Park, just over 2 hours from where we live in the south west of Western Australia. We had a quick visit during Easter, but wanted to return again for a longer stay. Unfortunately we needed to come home after only two nights dueJill Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08484965955166744702noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845699976525218769.post-23152187266360266992023-05-23T12:06:00.003+08:002023-05-29T16:45:59.966+08:00May Randoms 2023 HI everyone, I hope you and yours are well. I can't believe that May has nearly gone - only a week and a bit to go. I really don't know where May has gone. Here are a few randoms from May. Quinces are my favourite autumn fruit and I am so lucky to have a quince tree in my backyard. So delicious! But you must cook them first as they are rock hard. i've blogged about them a fewJill Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08484965955166744702noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845699976525218769.post-12018905007203661262023-05-09T17:35:00.006+08:002023-05-09T17:43:54.201+08:00Autumn has arrived at Golden Valley tree Park, Balingup, Western Australia Hi everyone, I hope you and yours are doing well. I haven't blogged for a couple of weeks because I have been so busy.... mainly with the Dardanup Art Spectacular and Art Trail in Dardanup and through the Ferguson Valley near Bunbury in Western Australia. I was one of six artists who exhibited at the old Dardanup convent. A huge thankyou to Jenny Spokes and the Dardanup Art Jill Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08484965955166744702noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845699976525218769.post-46868700192838672752023-04-24T16:10:00.002+08:002023-04-24T17:09:31.025+08:00Remote Sunrise Reminders - 25th April Anzac Day 2023The 25th April marks an important national day in Australia's and New Zealand's calendar. And the Dawn Service is a vital part of that day - for it was a dawn that the Allied servicemen landed at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915. In cities and towns all across Australia you
will find war memorials to remember those who have made the supreme sacrifice
in war. Some like the Australian War Memorial Jill Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08484965955166744702noreply@blogger.com5