I loved using my new IXUS cameraJ. Australian white Ibis, ducks and Indigo meeting a friend on our walk yesterday, taken with new camera, using the x5 zoom lense. 

The swans and ducks were easy to photograph, they swim up to me, hoping for a free feed. I want to to include more walks into my schedule, to take advantage of the 170 hectare of wetlands with rivergum forests near our summer home in Mooroopna. This excellent web site shows the location of many of the bushland reserves, in northern Victoria and the southern Riverina http://users.mcmedia.com.au/~stocky/parks.html

I have begun to help my eldest daughter by cleaning her house three times a week, as she works full time, has two young children and does volunteer work as well. As the saying goes, lol, ‘If you want something done, ask a busy person’.

I plan to do more of my painting art work now my new camera can help me achieve better bird and wildlife images to add to my on location painted, landscape art works. I plan to work on these wildlife and bird portrait paintings from my photos in the evening.

I am adjusting my time schedule so I can fit in more of some things, (walking, housework and art) and I need to become a lot more efficient in my time use for writing, to enable me to more of the other things,.

So I am devising strict times for me to work within, to help me fit in what I want and need to do.  The adjustments I need to make are:- I need to begin my mornings earlier, start writing by 8am and write more efficiently as I will not be writing at night, if I am to allow, more time to my passion for portrait painting. I need to begin my active afternoon right on the tick of the clock at 12MD, if I am to include another one as well as my own in the housework chores and I will learn to do more of my exercises at home, rather than at gym to find the time to bush walk more often and for longer. 
I have 15 minutes left of my writers must time, then this computer, goes off.

Morning is for My Writer’s Muse’J

Active Afternoons J:--exercise, active chores, gardening, and walks.

PM is for Portrait Painting Passion. J