Lunch out today

The girls are still on Summer holidays and we decided today to eat out for lunch. I got home from work at lunchtime and needed a break so what better than dragons, ducks and gluten free food.

Isn't he handsome? I love Eastern Water Dragons and this male (yes colour equals male) was really in prime plumage and showing off. He was sitting just next to our table. How wonderful to integrate nature into a restaurant! This is my photo for today and so easy to scrap.

I used this month's Guild Kit; credits here .

Only 360 more days to go

Well it sounds better than day 4 and day 5 of "photo a day" when I am struggling to find a photo. The sky is overcaste so I think it is the greyness of colours. So much easier to be inspired with light and shadow.

So here are my photos which introduce our 2 dogs who feature in the blog header. Cheetah is getting on for 14 years old and is an Australian Kelpie. She is bossy and has always been a leader. She has us all organised and lets us know if any bird dares to land in a tree in the garden. She loves chasing snakes and lizards and will bark continuously at the possums in the trees at night who of course totally ignore her.

Harry is the only male in the house and the youngest at 7 years old. He will always be my baby boy. His major responsibility is to look after my youngest daughter (who thinks this is a total joke). But he takes his job seriously and stays at the front door each afternoon until she arrives home from school.

He is cute though isn't he!

It's Monday and I would prefer to be in .....

I don't like Monday's. I love the weekend of indulgence. Digging in my garden, reading, scrapbooking, art journal pondering and then brutally Monday morning is back to WORK. And work to me is stress which I hope will change if I can change jobs this year. Fingers crossed XXXXX.

Anyway to assist me I am going to post a photo on Monday morning of a place where I would rather be. Well this is easy given that I would rather be anywhere than work. So where would I like to be today?

I would like to turn back the clock 2 weeks. Sitting on a beach Ngapali, in Myanmar. Sun setting over the Bay of Bengal, dinner for 3 of the freshest seafood costing USD8 which of course includes a can of Myanmar Beer. No sound of traffic, just the sound of waves on the rocks and beach. Looking out to the sea, the lights of the cuttlefish fishermen on the horizon. And the most amazing sunset ....

Hard to imagine why I would want to be here, isn't it?