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Today's theme is "JOY"
Today's theme is "JOY"
If you read yesterday's post you would know that we went away for the weekend. We were in Lamington National Park up in Mt. Tambourine, staying in a super cool villa at O'Reilly's.
There were so many 'nature' based things to do. We did a bush walk and tried to
make it to the waterfall but I was too scared (of snakes) when the path
through the tall scrub all but disappeared ! There were flowers.
Lots of pretty flowers. Trees. Lots of tall tall trees.
But my favorite part of the 'nature' on this
trip was the birds !There were
hundreds of them and
they are used
to people so they
came and sat on our
heads and even one sat on
my camera !! How cheeky, eh ?!
The kids loved holding them and feeding
them and trying to pat them. I got to feel the feathers
of a couple of them when they were sitting on one of the kids and
it was so neat. They are super soft ! I guess if I'd thought about it I could have
figured they would be soft, since feathers are soft and they are all feathers ... but I was surprised !
The drive up was gorgeous ... windy and stomach churning ... but gorgeous !
The cloud cover was incredible.
It was really cool as the clouds just rolled in right where you were standing !
There were so many 'nature' based things to do. We did a bush walk and tried to
make it to the waterfall but I was too scared (of snakes) when the path
through the tall scrub all but disappeared ! There were flowers.
Lots of pretty flowers. Trees. Lots of tall tall trees.
But my favorite part of the 'nature' on this
trip was the birds !There were
hundreds of them and
they are used
to people so they
came and sat on our
heads and even one sat on
my camera !! How cheeky, eh ?!
The kids loved holding them and feeding
them and trying to pat them. I got to feel the feathers
of a couple of them when they were sitting on one of the kids and
it was so neat. They are super soft ! I guess if I'd thought about it I could have
figured they would be soft, since feathers are soft and they are all feathers ... but I was surprised !
I have over 700 photos of the birds from the weekend ! I'm not going to share all of those, of course !
But, I will share lots over the next week or so !
Here are a few to get you started. These are of the kids feeding the birds.
1. a deep feeling or condition of happiness or contentment
2. something causing such a feeling; a source of happiness
3. an outward show of pleasure or delight; rejoicing
4. Brit informal success; satisfaction I went to the bank for a loan, but got no joy
vb
1. (intr) to feel joy
2. (tr) Obsolete to make joyful; gladden
[from Old French joie, from Latin gaudium joy, from gaudēre to be glad]
© HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003
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yep .... these birds brought me joy !
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12 comments:
wow, these birds and colors… I'm very jelous!! warm greetings from France!
My kids would have loved to do this!
Oh Bonnie - those birds are just glorious! And so friendly! What a thrill. What a joyful experience! :-)
This looks like fun. The birds are beautiful an din the Christmas colors. :)
those birds!
agreed!
pure joy.
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wow ... incredible colors !!!
i can immagen that this trip gave you lots of joy!
These are such stunning photos! The birds are beautiful! Thank you for sharing!
amazing! I've never seen friendly birds!
Those birds...! And Mt Tambourine was telling me something, until I checked and realised I have been there! Thanks for the joyful post.
I remeber the first time I saw the parrots in Austrialia. A friend took me to the Blue Mountains. It was so cool to see them in nature.
Incredible experience--something you definitely can't get here in Ohio! Fantastic photos too.
Absolutely fits the joy theme! :>)
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