And after nearly half a year of creative break a "happy easter" to the rest of my congregation (if you still follow my blog and I can understand if you don't...)
A lot has happened, for those who don't know it yet, on 7.11.2009 Josara and me got married. It was a hot sunny day and I think I was a little overdressed with my suit but the service was all one could wish for, i.e. short and after five minutes we were lawfully husband and wife. Afterwards we went feasting and drinking with the guests. It was quite a nice wedding I must say...
"Yes"...and get on with it...
Us with our witnesses, Dorje and Jenni (thanks again!)
Party afterwards...The next weekend Josara and me went on our honeymoon weekend to Daylesford (Thanks to Auntie Marie).
I like the poster "Health Giving Radio Active Mineral Water", hell yeah!
Our little miner's cottage...
Josara and me...
In Daylesford you have to drink during the day...
Lots of trees...
Beautiful old bathhouse...
Sequoia, huge...
Thee idiots...
Wife peering in hole...
Pump for radio active mineral water....yumm...
Lots of blossoms...
Remains of the last bushfire...
more flowers...Next topic on the list: art!
Well there are a lot of artists, potters, painters and poets, macrame artists and musicians, salt dough bakers and sculpturers and not everyone is human. Some paintings done by chimpanzees or elephants have sold for quite decent prizes at auctions. But we have a sculpturing cat, well to be honest it's more installation art in the tradition of ready-mades by Marcel Duchamp or maybe even concept art if displayed in a row...
Untitled #1 (front view)
Untitled #1 (side view)
The artist inspecting his latest work...
Yeah...it even smells right...
The artist at work (Installation #2)...contemplating where to take the next bit off..
Yeah...right...here...And while the cats are not creating...
This is the way to store them, nice and clean...
Isn't Willem adorable?Shortly before Christmas last year my friend and brother Heiner came to visit us for 6 weeks. Actually he was the first of my friends from Germany who made it here and we had an awesome time.
Christmas day 2009...Heiner and me somewhere in the bush at the Brisbane Ranges...
Our campground...important: the mozzie spray...it's a lifesaver...Several beers later the tent was erected. Please note the red circly thing in the Eucalyptus tree behind the tent...
when we came back from a little reconnaissance walk we spotted this in the tree
Well, Koalas ARE bloody overrated but still the second laziest animals on this planet (after the Sloth). One must like them for that...Well, we spend Christmas night with some nice fellows from NZ who arrived a bit later and went to sleep around 4 in the morning after having quite a lot of beers and talks and as soon as it went light we got rudely woken by freakin Cockatoos. Man, those little fuckers are loud. I reckon appox 120 DB or more and we had 20 of them sitting in the trees around the tent...If we had a shotgun we would have used it...National Park or not...but unfortunately we didn't have one...
One loud little fucker
looking quite harmless but I don't wish them upon anyone with a hangover...As we were awake anyway, we decided to do a little bush walk
One of the awesome things in the Brisbane Ranges National park are the Grasstrees (http://www.grasstree.com/)
Awesome Grasstrees...I like...
Another Koala...overrated but at least quiet...
Bush...Now for something completly different: our Christmas decoration:
Beautiful, innit?
Beach between Warrnambool and Melbourne...
Different beach, this time between Melbourne and Warrnambool...And now...wildlife in our garden.
#1 the Blue tongued lizard
I had to cut the image as he was sitting next to a heap of garbage...and I'm a bit embarassed, ah well...what the fuck...here's the original image
Well...the mess has been cleaned in the meantime...
Marbled Gecko...rescued by me during the cleaning of the chicken coop...
Cute little fella...And now featuring the only seriously dangerous animal living in our garden:
The redback spider living in our compost bin...bite can be fatal to humans but as she stays in the bin and eats insects I don't mind her...
I quite like redbacks as long as they stay outside...Well, nearly done for today,the last batch of pictures are from last weekend when Josara and me went for a little trip tp the Organ Pipes National Park
Rosette rock...I could make some jokes but as I sometimes have the humor of a 12 year old I just leave it...
Argh...it's hard, I mean just drill a hole in the middle...
Me, thinking if I should crack a joke...
Josara's expression convinced me not to...
More rock formations...
Creek with more rocks...
Creek with greenery...And at that creek we spotted movement in the leaves and witnessed a skink ( probably Garden Skink but the skinks looks all alike..if you want to classify the lizard for yourself...click here: http://flyaqis.mov.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/texhtml?form=bio_lizce ) catching and eating a moth
Skink vs moth #1
Skink vs moth #2: moth escaped...
Skink vs moth #3: no it didn't...
Skink vs moth #4
Skink vs moth #5: mmmmmm...moth...tasty
Skin vs moth #6: a glass of water would be nice now...
The organ pipes...
pipes...
and the last pic for today...Well, I will maintain the blog more frequently again, no waiting for another half a year till the next entry, I promise...
Have a good one, take care and have fun...
Cya!
