Roses supposes (the hues on the) noses

My roses are out in bloom.

OK OK. My Mum's roses are out in bloom.

I can hardly take the credit. Just because I have lived at this house for almost two years (as an adult and chief 'gardener') and I have been known to actually water this garden (on occasion, when things get crispy) doesn't mean I get to take kudos for the fabulous rose blooms themselves. I mean, I might actually have attempted the pruning on my own this year (thankyou, thankyou) and been terrified I had mauled the bushes to death, but the many years of establishment of these fine (and hardy) rosebushes belongs to my mother.

Thanks Mum!
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And there are three bushes with amazing deep red blooms.

Not that you would know.

Because the photos have a weird yellow hue to them.

And I don't know why. It's driving me crazy. So I'm going to talk (whinge) cameras for a sec... bear with me. I wondered if it was the late afternoon sun-shade they were bathed in. So I fiddled with the white balance. I played with the metering. I even messed around in Photoshop.

Still. Orange-ish. Roses.

Aaarghhh!

Seriously, I think they'd look better in black and white.

Ya think?

Outrageously cute (and funny!)

Oh how I have laughed lately...

Well not yesterday...

But before that I, was giggling like a schoolgirl.

At y'all.

(Those of you NOT lurking that is... we have yet to discover the talent of my readers who fail to register comments each visit... you know who you are!!!)

Anyhoo, I recently made a spontaneous decision to ask you CAPTION a photo for me. Not for a prize or anything. Just to exercise your brains (cause mine had seized up on me!).

And you came good with some DOOZIES.

Click here to read the terrific entries.

But there can be only one winner.

And (drumroll please) the no-prize goes to:

DEBBY!!

Seeing eye dog seeks job security

Ha-ha! Ha, ha, ha, ha.
Ha...
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The fabulous Debby is a little out of action at the moment (and in my thoughts constantly). If you have not yet met her, whip on over to Life's Funny Like That. Her life actually isn't too funny at the moment. But it will be again (real soon!).
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Hugs and laughter (the best medicine) to y'all...

BB

PS Make sure you have voted in the little poll at right... it will make a difference as to what photos I offer you folk as prizes (or to buy if you are feeling flush!) in the very near future.

Garden hoses... or not!

Just to momentarily divert from my recent theme of CUTENESS...

I have a little poser for you.

No prizes today, but you may need your Depend in place!

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QUESTION:

WHEN IS A GARDEN HOSE NOT A GARDEN HOSE?

ANSWER:

WHEN IT'S A SIX FOOT LONG BROWN SNAKE!

And before any of you ask, YES it is deadly.

And YES it was in our garden.

And YES the children were safely flung up onto the pool table.

And NO I cannot tell you what happened next.

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Let's just say, there are plenty of his comrades still roaming the countryside! SSB saw eight (you heard me!) of these suckers in one day last week! Just in case you are wondering, I did a little Wikipedia search for you and here is what I found:

The Eastern Brown Snake is the second most venomous land snake in the world after the Inland Taipan Although Eastern Browns will seek to avoid confrontation, their venom is very toxic, and can be fatal; even juveniles have caused human fatalities. The venom contains both neurotoxins and blood coagulants.[3] Despite the potency of the venom, the pressure immobilisation first-aid technique is highly effective (as it is for all Australian venomous snakes).

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And they wondered why I was such an AVID STUDENT at my first aid course before moving back from the city? Duh!

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This post should be filed under a new category: Yet Another Reason Bush Babe Doesn't Get Around to Doing Her Daily Walk More Than Twice a Year.

Nuff said.

Alright, alright...

Just cause you asked so nicely...

I give you...

more pup and kids pics...

This is No Name. He is three weeks old and cute as ... well... a puppy!

He has been visiting for the school holidays and has provided hours and hours of entertainment and doggy-breath kisses to Dash and TLW lately...
Dash has quite a way with animals, especially baby ones.

He's patient and gentle...TLW, on the other hand, does everything with a certain vigour which sometimes can be a little...

... terrifying for the animal being handled at the time!
No Name is in danger of being loved to death, methinks...

So, I give you puppy photos, it's quid pro quo time!

I need your help, so you might want to put your thinking caps on.

Ready?

BB Challenge: Caption this photo.

A little somethin' special...

Please ignore my daughter's unbrushed hair

(we don't call her fuzz-nut for nothin')

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And her scraped elbow

(darn those tricky trikes on that hazardous patio racetrack)

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But seriously, is this not one of the cutest things.

Like ever?

Huh?

Mystery Answer... I think!

OK, show's over. I have to look over your very crazy answers in order to choose a winner. Which I am not sure is actually possible. Where are the rules for this silly competition again? Oh, that's right. There ARE none. Righto.

Here is the REAL answer (which may or may not have anything to do with the winning Mystery Photo entry). This is Lou Lou. She is my friend (and gorgeous beach chick). She is a photographer with whom I used to work, and share philosophical debate and life traumas with (in the coffee room of my old workplace). And she goes NOWHERE without her Canon.

And in my mystery photo, she is hunkered down (all agile and unlike her bush friend) and taking photos , not of freaky Aussie wildlife...

Hello little fella!

But of rocks. Granite Glen Granite. In dry grass. Under fabulous azure skies. As you do. As we do. For no apparent reason other than we follow our craving to document everything! And it's fun... drives our menfolk crazy. Well, mine anyway!

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Lou Lou is a top girl. She brought her hubby and twins out to Granite Glen for a visit this week - for the first time. She has spent her life at the beach and has travelled far and wide and is laid-back and funny and sweet, and everything a real top Aussie chick should be. One of those friends who you might not see for ages, then when you catch up it's like you've never been away. I'm very very lucky in the 'mates' department.

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Anyway, she and her family got a two-day taste of the bush life. And, being a photographer, she snapped her little heart out while she was here. And me being another photographer (it's not so much a job, or a vocation as a disease from which sufferers seek no cure) I took photos of her taking photos. As you do.

There is something very wrong with this photo. What is it? Can you see?

Oh yeah. It's Lou. She's talented, a great chick, a great mate, and skinny. That just ain't right. Is it?

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Lou Lou will have some ammo to fire back at me, I have no doubt. I shall share some of it with you at some stage... in the meantime, here is one of her views of our part of the world.

Smoko-time at the yards, reflected in her groovy beach-chic sunnies. Right before my darling sweet daughter turned from sweet kid sharing the biscuit tin (look closely and you can see her) into the child from The Exorcist.

Thanks Lou Lou... be kind!

Heh.

BB

Mystery Photo - what is this woman doing??

WE HAVE A WINNER: see end of post!

Sorry I've been a bit tardy here at BB... we've been (wait for it) BUSY!

I know, I know, that's what I always say, and here I am, living in the country where life is supposed to be all groovy and gentle and S-L-O-W-E-R ... but it just doesn't seem to have dipped under 100km/hour here lately. There have been various bull sales, emotional traumas by the dozen (oh, don't forget this one too) and lots of mustering (both virtual, with Jean-Jeanie and real).

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Oh, and did you realise it's school holidays (you can hit me but only if you have school-aged kids) ... and school holidays means visitors. And I shall share a little of our city visitors with you, just as soon as you do a little somethin' for me. Quid Pro Quo*.

Ready? Willing? Able?

Here goes:

What on EARTH is this woman doing??

And (more importantly) why is she doing it?

Has she not heard of DEADLY SNAKES?

The kind that like to lurk in long dry grass?

She has?

OK.

She's just crazy then.

(It's a massive prerequisite to being my friend, I'm afraid).

Same deal as always guys - winner with the most accurate and imaginative answer gets to choose an 8x12" imgae to be printed from this blog... you've got til midday tomorrow (Friday) Granite Glen time.
:-)

BB

* Name that movie for a bonus point!

AND THE WINNER IS:

Well, all of you really (you have some mighty fine imaginations going there my friends) ... like Kate and her "dreaded purple four fanged boaviper" (too much Bindi Irwin for you my girl!), and Portia with her Mills & Boon take on my hubby fixing a fence (!); and Debby with her outrageous randy goanna story... but this week's winner is...

PENCIL WRITER! For her National Geographic fantasy and her "or something's". I'm a sucker for 'or something'. Email me please PW! (Or something.)

Thanks for the great entries - in the word's of a great Aussie boxer:

I love youse all!!