Jobee's Journal

Flowers on our rogue cotton plants reminded me I hadn't posted a page I did last year showing how the flower turns into a boll. Firstly I guess I'd better say why we have rogue cotton plants in our garden!! A couple of years ago I asked a friend to get us some cotton so I could get some of the bolls. It got left on the verandah too long & kinda self sowed in the garden. We have a mini crop down the side of the house + one lone plant near our driveway.  We've just left it there for now & it's flowering for the 2nd year. Some has already flowered & developed cotton bolls. The one near the driveway seems to do it later than the others.  When it flowered last year I took a series of photos to show how a cotton boll develops. It was around the time there were news reports that lots of students didn't know that cotton grew on plants. So I decided to make a scrapbook page. When cotton is grown commercially it is defoliated before the cotton pickers stri...

The 30th of November was our 15th wedding anniversary. Normally this is where an appropriately embarrassing wedding photo would be placed. Well none of our wedding photos have yet to make it into digital format so I'll insert a more recent photo. I decided we needed to go away for this momentous occasion. I'd worked out a while ago he had 4 days off & had lined up my parents to take care of the kids. I then went about organising a suprise location for our anniversary trip. We both enjoy photography, so I started looking for some kind of photography workshop. I came across the website for Trekabout Photography Workshops  who just happened to have a 2 day workshop on the exact weekend Peter had RDO's. To top it off, the workshop was at  O'Reilly's  in Lamington National Park - where I'd been wanting to visit for a long time. It was a suprise - right up until I had to tell Peter which way we were driving. Once I said we were going North, but not to t...