Tag: Australia
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Observing Stromlo
The Mt Stromlo observatory, near my childhood home, was a favorite biking destination. Despite destruction in 2003, new telescopes and equipment, like the ‘Sky Mapper’ and the Quantum Optical Ground Station, have been installed.
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The Golden Hour
“Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.” — Horace Mann
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Sylvia jetty sunset.
I used to live in Sylvia Curly House, a nurse’s residence at the old Canberra Hospital located out on Acton Peninsula. Looking out of the window of my small room in Sylvia, I had a million-dollar view out over the lake and across to the Brindabella Mountains. It became a nursing tradition to regularly meet…
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The Martian Embassy
A 10-year-old’s eerie encounter near a crashed UFO site turns out to be the fascinating story of the Australian Shine Dome.
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On assignment.
An expedition. An assignment. A quest. To find the perfect coffee shop. Brew. Ambience. Ceramics.Music. Architecture. People. It’s a big ask to achieve perfection on all the marks. And as the adventure is in the searching, I hope I never find it. As the writer Kate DiCamillo says….. “Say it, reader. Say the word ‘quest’…
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Sunday lake walk.
Shots from a quiet walk along the paved banks of Lake Burley. Everybody that was nobody was out and about. Cyclists, scooterers, and ambulatory deep-in conversationalists. The cardigan crew, the yoga pants posers, the cafe crowd and the fashion outliers. Sunlight held hint of a wry spring smile. Magpies and seagulls amongst it all. The…
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National Arboretum Canberra.
Location: ///luxury.fire.draw35°17.55096’S, 149°4.29126’E Took Juno for a walk up to the arboretum to catch the golden hour and perhaps grab a couple of snaps. Only he had other ideas, certain that the only reason we could possibly have come up here was so he could pee on a tree from every country on the planet.…
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Theatre 3.
Location: ///solved.barn.anyone35°16.89438’S, 149°7.3425’E Theatre 3 is home to one of Australia’s oldest theatre companies, Canberra REP. It is a simple brick building with a seating capacity of less than 200 and it usually stages around six productions a year. Back in another life I played the trumpet, and it so happened that I participated in…
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