I have just added more Valentine’s Day Gifts to my Zazzle store including mugs, cards and t-shirts. You’ve still got time to buy your sweetheart a romantic gift and Zazzle is also offering 50% off the cost of shipping if you spend $25 or more….

I’ve just caught up with this news which is really sad, not only for Spanish photographer, José Luis Rodriguez but also for the competition itself and all of the other participants. The winning “disqualified” photograph of an Iberian wolf jumping over a gate is suspected to have featured a “trained animal” which the competition rules will not tolerate.

The weather in Brisbane at the moment is extremely humid but over the last couple of days we’ve had heavy rain which has cleared the air and today was quite bearable and very blustery. When the sun manages to sneak out, there is a moist, golden glow in the air which I adore for taking photographs and the wet foliage is lush and tropical.

I sat mesmerized and enthralled the whole way through this video and it is a sheer visual delight.

I have admired the macro photography of Brian Valentine (LordV) for a few years now since I discovered his jaw-dropping work on Flickr. I also did an article on Brian in my Nature’s Paint Box eZine Issue 4 where he kindly agreed to be a featured artist.

I managed to get a little bit of the second kookaburra done and it’s easier on my eyes since I purchased the magnification lenses from the Chemist.

We knew that soon we would be introduced to the new offspring of our resident magpie pair, “Toenail” and “Skitsy”. Sure enough, we heard the unmistakable “feed me” squawking nearby and there he was, one of the two chicks, demanding to be fed.

I have designed and produced a range of gifts for Valentine’s Day.  You will not find these in the shops anywhere which makes them exclusive and truly unique.  What’s more is that you have the extra touch of having your very own, personal, customised wording on many of these gifts …

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It’s been a while since I checked on my garden guests and as you know, I have been a bit of an indoors hermit of late working on my new website and shop which I hope you like by the way. I went out to check our snail mail in the early evening and something made me walk over to my citrus trees.