
Thank you for reading, commenting and sharing my little internet soap box. I hope I’m doing something to make the world just a tiny bit better, and I can’t do it without you. Take care of yourselves, your loved ones, your community and your planet. I’ll see you again in 2013. Best wishes, Toni.
Category: Meta, nature photography Tags: 2012, an attitude of gratitude, blogging, building a community, Christmas, meta, my internet soapbox, my readers rock, thank you
I’ve just returned home from a failed attempt to do my usual weekly produce shop down at my local farmer’s market. I go most every Sunday to buy my fruit & veg, perhaps a little free-range meat, and catch up with the friendly faces. Not today though: today it was bedlam as the collective insanity that is Christmas hit the market at full force. We seem to lose the plot a little… Read More
Derwent Estuary, Hobart, Tasmania Tell the people who matter how you feel. (I have some phone calls to make)
Category: Landscape photography, Photography, Weekend photo zen Tags: ask people if they are ok, breaking through the clouds, Conneticut massacre, Derwent Estuary, Hobart, hug your friends and family, love, priorities, reach out to others, River, sailboats, seagulls, silver light, talk, tell them you love them, Weekend photo zen
These last couple of weeks I’ve been feeling a little low. This time of year does it to me: I get over-scheduled, over-committed, under-slept, and with most folk getting busy with family commitments sometimes I feel pretty alone. I’m tired, and some days it can feel like a bit of a struggle to keep going, but then the little things come along that lift me. This afternoon I took myself on a… Read More
Category: Community, Ethics, Farming & food systems, Food & cooking, Gardening, Industry & agriculture, Lifestyle, Rants & raves Tags: agriculture, backyard farming, bartering, community, food security, food systems, Gardening, grow your own food, in my garden, independence from supermarkets, seasonal eating, sustainable food
Tall Sundew (Drosera auriculata), Tarkine region, north-western Tasmania. “Discipline is remembering what you want, and then acting on it.” – Tom Franklin
Tasmanians, the Forest Peace Deal Agreement is going through the Upper House, where the legislation will either pass, or crash and burn with a huge loss of public faith and return to community division and ongoing stalemate. The agreement isn’t perfect, I know, but it’s better than no agreement and it has involved compromise from both sides to reach. We can always build from here and work towards a better agreement once… Read More
Category: Community, Ethics, Extractive industries, Politics & society, Rants & raves Tags: activism, compromise, creating the future, environmental activism, environmental politics, forest peace talks, legislation, petition, sustainability, Tasmania, Tasmanian Forest Agreement, Tasmanian Government
Don’t be afraid to let your soft side show. Be vulnerable, believe in love.
Category: nature photography, Photography, Weekend photo zen Tags: droplets, everyday beauty, little things, love, Photography, pretty, rain drops, rose, rose petals, Weekend photo zen
The shape of things to come