Baby Pelicans

As we sat watching some pelican's in the river at Port Macquarie last night, my mum asked, "Why don't you ever see baby pelicans? You see ducks with their babies, and all sorts of animals with their babies, but I've never seen a baby pelican."

Well that made us all stop and think, I know-I know the cogs are a bit rusty - and none of us had ever seen a baby pelican either, so of course this morning I Googled the answer, which I found at Sea Bird Rescue

Photography fun site...

Just stumbled across a really interesting website on photography...

I've been playing there for ages, click on one of the photos... then click outside the photo to move around the page...

Matthew Mahon

Argentine Tango Link

"It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer"

Here's a lovely Argentine Tango link of Natacha Poberaj & Jesús Velazquez on UTube that a friend just emailed us... click here

maybe if I keep practising...

Contemporary Frangipani

Did you know that if you take a picture of a frangipani such as the one below... then open accessories, then open paint, then open your picture, then save it as a 16 color bitmap, that you end up with a frangipani that looks like this one above?



That's what I learned when learning about favicons... the things that you come across while learning through Google!

Looking in a new way...

Today I have a challenge for you, I want you to focus on good things that are happening all around you, and write them down. Little things such as... my husband made me a cup of tea and brought it into bed for me. Or... the rain makes these little drops on the bamboo in the pot in my garden, and if I look closely, then I can see our house reflected in the water.

What water dragon?

What water dragon?

Yesterday I started a photography course. Gee it was fun, yesterday's class started on the fundamentals of looking after your camera, and information on apertures and lenses and tripods. But then at the end of the class we went walking in the bush, and started to get down to the good stuff... taking pictures.

"Here you are, take one of the water dragon" Russell said... 'what water dragon?" I thought, as much as I looked I couldn't see it. In the end I had to ask him to point it out to me. And sure enough there it was at the end of an old log. It made me realise that our photography class is going to be so much more than learning about photography, in addition to all the new technical info, I can already see that it's about learning to look in a new way.



Russell's Garden Above... forget the stair master walk up and down here a few times a day!

Creating Your Life

After working in Welfare for a while, it really came home to me how we can either stay stuck in a situation or decide to make a change and go for what we want in life. Watching other people stuck in certain areas, made me question, what areas in my life I needed to move in. It was quite a gift working in Welfare, as it has totally changed my outlook on life. It made me realise that all of us... no matter how bad a situation may look, can dig deep into our inner well of creativity and better our lives.

One way to start is to start searching the internet for newsletters and articles on how to live your life effectively. I regularly receive an email newsletter from the Pacific Institute, and this morning's newsletter is a fantastic one, you may wish to add their newsletter to your list... www.The Pacific Institute.com


Winner's Circle Network with Lou Tice - 11/3/09 - "Creating Your Own Reality"



Do you believe that you create your own reality? Or do you believe that reality is something "out there" over which you have no control?



As adults, we generate our experiences in life. While we can't control everything that happens to us, we can control how we respond. We can take responsibility for the results we experience in life. And when we do this, we grow enormously.



Television newsperson Dan Rather once said that John Kennedy became a true leader when he stood before the American people and said that the Bay of Pigs was an atrocity that never should have happened, and then took full responsibility for it. He was transformed from a promising young politician into a great leader.



The same is true for you and me. If we take responsibility for our lives - our reality - then we are in power. If we avoid it, then we have lost that power.



Who is responsible for the quality of your life? If you say someone else, you are trapped unless, or until, circumstances change. If you say, "I am," you give yourself the power to change things, if you choose to do so.



You see, the power to change resides where it has always resided - inside you. Take charge of your life, and you give yourself direction and purpose that has probably been missing. Will you be taking risks? Yes, you will, and you will probably make some mistakes. But show me a person who has never made a mistake, and I'll show you someone who hasn't lived.



Life is yours to be lived. Live it fully!



Lou Tice

The Pacific Institute

The Pacific Institute