nitgb photo challenge [week 1 - window]

Norfolk Island Tourism (NITGB) has kicked off a Facebook photo challenge to inspire locals and visitors alike to share images of this beautiful island. Like most photography challenges, a word prompt is given. To my liking though, instead of it being a word-a-day, it's a word-a-week.

Last week's word was 'window'. Immediately the window that came to mind was the beautiful stained glass window of St Barnabas. I took a quiet drive to church in the middle of the day and arrived to have the whole church and it's lovely surrounds entirely to myself. That is until a lovely lady arrived to play the organ...and what luck for me, a private concert for one! It would seem I got a little carried away, and came away with many images and most not of windows. St Barnabas is such a peaceful place and had it not been for the afternoon's commitments, I may have lost many hours to this sacred place.

This week the word is green.

weekly stills

The term is drawing to an end and I've finally found my part time groove. Yes, it's taken this long. This will sound cuckoo, but I've been spending most of my time at home cleaning the house. Afterwards I sit and admire my hard work (made beds people...thrilling stuff!), twiddle my thumbs and hardly breathe for fear of messing it all up. Not very exciting, right? And certainly not as fulfilling as I'd imagined (well, washed floors and sparking toilets do kind of give me a small thrill).  After staring longingly at my sewing machine last week, it dawned on me that maybe a mess was in order after all...for my creative urges and sanity. The other discovery I've made is, it's OK not to stay at home ie I can take a drive or a walk All By Myself! Yes I'm a big girl after all. There's no stopping me now...I've even let the house go a bit.

Here's the wrap up:

[i] wibble wobble orange jelly (free oranges in "the hood")

[ii] Till and I hang out at Bumby while Harry has his Wednesday guitar lesson

[iii] a swim before school - *someone was looking for their swimmers!!!!!!!

[iv] one of our locals - word on the street is the grass is very tasty

[v] more locals...they were rather rude to me, honking loudly

[vi] robots and rainbows - don't ask me???

[vii] we eye-spied this persimmon tree whilst driving...and I drool every time I pass it

[viii] a picket fence I photographed when I was out having an adventure all by myself on my day off

* I've just discovered it wasn't one of the kids who made this mess!!!! lol. Well done for being honest dear Ben - mwah x
He's not messy, I promise. We were in a rush.

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