Sympathy Flowers

 

At our age there seems to be need for more sympathy cards.  This is made using one of those magazine freebee sets that you have components and construct a picture with.  I like simple cards.

Image: Mag freebee                        

Embossed sentiment:

Also: Copics, Glossy Accents

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VIVID Sydney #6

 The trip back to Darling harbour after a day in the Blue Mountains.  

We are in Parramatta where we have been dropped off by the bus after our day in the Blue Mountains.  As you can see it is just on sunset, with the ferry just coming into collect us.  What a fabulous day it's been.

Leaving Parramatta.  People commute into Sydney by ferry all along the way.

Here is a little mansion along the river.  Seems there are a lot of mansions along the river.  And lots of yachts in every bay along the river and at marinas in the river.  Lots of $$$

Here is Sydney coming into view, with the sun shining off the skyscrapers.

Some colourful buildings, which was lovely to see after everything being painted white or red brick.

Turning into Darling harbour (with my favourite building at the point).  Darling harbour is Barangaroo in aboringinal.

Coming into dock.  A lovely view up to Cockle Bay and the curvy W hotel.  I always like this time of night when the sky is purply pink.  Our hotel is on the right behind and between the two taller buildings behind the Mu-sea-um.

As we are docking, all the lights start to come on for the night display.

On the side of the boat you can see we are at Barangaroo.  Barangaroo was an aboriginal woman who was prominent in colonial times dealing with the invading settling/government forces.

And by the time we disembarked and walked up to the walking bridge - another wonderful sky!

More of the ship and Mu-sea-um roof as we walk across the bridge.  The roof had a flight of stingrays and the ship had sea turtles.

... and the Cockle Bay display:  Our hotel is to the right of the building with the pink roof, so has a great view overlooking this.

And another end to another lovely day.  An early start and an early-to-bed for us - I think we were in bed and asleep by 9.00pm.  Tomorrow is another day.

Rainbow Flutterbyes

 

What could be happier than a rainbow?  Or more summery?

I coloured and blended the background with Distress Inks and then diecut.  The butterflies are made with Copic markers, then stamped over, cut out and covered with WoS.  The sentiment tag is also copic markers.  All put together with butterfly wings lifted up, Stickles and gems to bodies of butterflies, and glitter strip at bottom.

The stamps and dies are unknown.

Also: DI's, COpics, WoS, Stickles

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VIVID Sydney #5 Feathersdale Wildlife Sanctuary

 This one is about the un-cute Australian animals at Feathersdale Wildlife Sanctuary.

They certainly wear beautiful skins, but they are just where I like them - behind glass!  Thankfully we don't have snakes in NZ, but Australia has most of the world's deadliest snakes ... and spiders (eeechk).

Lizards (I forget the names). This one would be nearly a metre long, tip to tip.

And here's a good camouflage suit if I ever saw one!  He would be about 0.75 m long.

Feel like a snuggly snake?  I think this one was a python.

There were several kinds of pythons, as well as lots of very venomous snakes.  

   

I don't know if this is one or two snakes!  Probably only one as all the others were solitary.

And ... see if you can spot the snake in this one!

It's right in front of you!

And the skeleton of a snake.  How amazing is that?

That's it folks.  

After Featherdale, we went down out of the mountains into Parramatta to get the ferry downriver back to Darling harbour as the evening drew to a close.

Vivid Sydney #4

 Vivid Sydney Tour Friday 16 June, Featherdale Wildlife Sanctuary, NSW.  This episode features the cutesy Australian animals.

 This is what you expect to see in Australia isn't it?  Koalas?

Well, in the trees they are quite hard to spot.  This pair are not too high up.

These are pademelon.  A species of kangaroo/wallaby.  They were in this area that had a rail fence and they could go in and out of the area; being with people if they wanted, or separated into the enclosure.

Here I am giving some RooFood to a pademelon.  When I turned away to talk to Ian it gently put it's paw on my hand and turned it back so it could get more food.  You can see how tiny and delicate they are.

They are so cute and were very polite.  Here is one with a joey in it's pouch.

There are loads of pelicans around Australia.  This is a fine fellow who decided to show off and started grooming himself.  I don't know how they comb their feathers so beautifully with that great long beak.  Their beak pouch folds into their beak when they are not using it.

Some koalas are kept in smaller enclosures with shorter trees so you can see them better.  Here one is fast asleep in the crotch of a tree.

These two had just touched noses in greeting as one came down the branch and the other went up.

A cute little owl having a snooze in the sun.  It is so small it could've fitted in my hand.  Notice how it looks just like the bark of the tree.

It always amazes me that you think of some things generically.  As always  there are so many kinds of owls and they are all wonderful.

A Lesser Sooty Owl.  It was quite big as owls go, so I wonder what the greater sooty owl might look like?

Here is a wombat curled up asleep.  They are a lot bigger than I expected; about the size of a pig.  And
one having a slurp.  And one digging a hole.  Did you know they poop square poo?

A Goodfellows Tree Kangaroo.  If you take off the tail it looks like a teddy bear.

These birds look like some kind of ibis.  They are numerous and we have seen them wander around Sydney parks - just like we would have sparrows at home.

I don't know what this was but he's very handsome, took his time just wandering around, and would make a good dinner being bigger than a turkey.  

This is a quokka, little, cute and furry (marsupial).  A big bigger than a guinea pig, about the size of a cat.

Another kind of kangaroo, such pretty markings.

Another pademelon.  As you can see they are able to roam throughout the park.  These were my favourite animals here - they were so beautiful.

And to finish, the world famous dingo.  A very good looking wild dog.

There were so many other kinds of Australian animals there too, such as cassowaries (who didn't want to get photographed and were behind wire because they are attack birds), lots of parrots etc.  Too many to mention!   Next time is the not-so-cute critters.