100 Photos - 38. Abandoned

100 Photos - 99. Solutide

Chastised

I went to lunch with Nick today, and he made me feel bad for my lack of posts.  I told him I have nothing to talk about but apparently that's no excuse.

There was a story about my rampaging mint and how I almost made it into homemade peppermint schnapps, and today my flatmate went for a wander by himself in the Waitakere hills but didn't need to chop his arm off in order to come home again.  But in effect neither is one worth writing home about.  Instead, let me share some randomness.

In January I took this picture:

And when failing to make a highly lethal fermented mint cocktail I took these pictures of a praying mantis:

And if you're very good and encourage me with comments, I will post the details of an exciting project I am currently in the middle of...
(Here is a hint:)

Stay in touch...

~ Sezmeralda

XXX: Whomever You Find Most Attractive In This World

No one stands out for me.
There are a couple of people I know who are very kind and gentle, very sweet and one has simply the most amazing singing voice and I think those people are just the cat's knees and the bee's pajamas.  But I don't find any one person to be the most attractive.

And that's that done.  What next?

Twenty-Nine: Somewhere You Want To Visit

Scotland.

Ham Hill (UK)

Egypt.

Greece.

Turkey.  (esp. ANZAC Cove)

Italy.

New Zealand (Wilts. UK)

... and many more!

Vivian Maier

A 'friend' on DeviantArt.com shared this link with me, and I strongly recommend you check it out.  It is the story of the discovery of over 100,000 photographs taken by street photographer Vivian Maier,  photographs no other saw until after her death.


Some examples of her work:

Also, more of Vivian's amazing work at this blog by John Maloof (where I took these photos from).

 

28 - A drawing

Hmmm, so, I am not an artist.  A writer perhaps but not an artist.  I was planning on scanning in a very basic primary school-level sail boat, but today I actually have something I almost like.

I doodled it while in a lesson on The Laws Of Armed Conflict.  You know, rules of engagement, Geneva convention, war crimes kind of stuff.  (I'm not showing off that my work is awesome, at all.  Honest.)

Here 'tis.  Incidentally, the cover on the pad which I drew this on states that the pad is a:

FIELD MESSAGE BOOK

(For the use of officers and 

non-commissioned officers)

This book is ruled in 6mm squares.

Ah the military!

XXVII - A Picture of Where You're From

Photo courtesy of Deceptico at Deviant Art.

26: A Picture From One Of The Greatest Days Of Your Life

This is all getting a bit too silly.  I don't actually have a picture of the night I went to bed when the family were staying with Nan and Grandad in Christchurch and I went to bed only to find the toy stuffed snake in there which I just wanted and wanted and WANTED and now it was MINE forever and mine for real, and noone else's and it was mine and I will call him Max.

So here's a photo from the day the RNZAF Women's Cricket team finalised their undefeated tour of the English Services Tour of 2010 by winning the match against the RAF.

Interesting Perspective

From my good friend:

came an interesting article from stuff.co.nz about one of the New Zealand Defence Force's Policies.  Click here to read it.