Keith's Journal

It's been quite noisy here today with roadworks on the bridge next to our place all day. I hadn't thought about how noisy it has been until a moment ago when the machinery all stopped.

i went for a walk this afternoon, thinking I would take photos of the work and the disruption it was causing... at one stage traffic was backed up about a kilometre. When I looked there were no potential images that really grabbed my attention.

As I continued around the lake I saw some reeds and clouds which did grab my attention, and then surprisingly there was the moon rising through the clouds.

The cloudy condtitions this afternoon did interesting things to the light. Apart from the scattering effects of the clouds, the mountains almost shone in comparison with the dull conditions in town.

Here are some photos of the last week.

We stayed at "The Haven" a beautiful conference centre on the beach at Emu Park, just out of Rockhampton. The centre is run by the Sisters of St Joseph (I think that's the right name), the order established by Australia's only saint Mary McKillopp. (I guess someone will correct me on those details!). They have probably had the location since it was worth next to nothing and in "the bush." Last year they spent $5 million on renovating and re-building the centre.




The beach was beautiful, and even featured some sunflowers growing in the dunes!









Here are the participants. They came from NSW, Victoria, Queensland and Indonesia






One morning I woke up at 6 am and remembered that I had left my phone charger in the lounge downstairs. I ran down and grabbed it and saw the sun rising. I don't often see the sun rising so I ran to my room and picked up my camera to take these shots:







Here are some pictures of the scenery from the conference centre.









There were some interesting flora and fauna in the vicinity... a kookaburra, some caterpillars, beautiful but deadly lantana (it is a pest which chokes out native vegetation).








I will be blogging on the actual content of the seminar over the next week or two. I also have some ideas about some things I need to be doing, so there will be things becoming evident in the church over the next few months.

I tried to set this out in a more interesting arrangement but my opera wouldn't co-operate on that

To celebrate the start of the football season tomorrow, here is a photo taken from the football fields.

There seems to be a storm cell developing this afternoon. In the space of half an hour we've gone from nearly clear sky to almost overcast. It would be nice to have a downpour!

A nice walk to the cemetery this afternoon. Coming back, there was a train waiting to leave. The photo came out much darker than I would have thought it should have.

On my way to Bellata this morning I noticed some pretty impressive crops of sorghum. These pictures were taken just south of Edgeroi. While taking the photo of the sunflower there were kookaburras laughing happily in the trees. Very peaceful for the highway.

Some of my favourite toys...