My house is on the side of a Mountain adjacent to Sherbrook Forest. The forest is dominated by giant mountain ash trees kin to the red woods of Northern California. There trees are breath taking in their own right however, during the fall and winter they retain their leaves thus leaving only the calender and the temperature to herald the change of seasons.
Since the house is on the mountain side the main part of my home is on the second floor. Just outside the kitchen window you can see the top of a lonely maple tree in the backyard. The maple is out of place amongst the ash, eucalypts, acacia and wattle. However, this little maple screams at the top of it’s little tree lungs that autumn has arrived. I love the stark color contrasts of the maple in it’s full length red attire and the lush eucalypt carpet of the valley.
That brings me to this misty raining Saturday morning, camera in my hand …
Call me an adult with an overactive imagination, a dreamer or a delusional geek but sometimes I just can’t help but wonder … What would my backyard look like if Earth was a little closer to the Orion Nebula?
Ah, now that’s worth pulling out the deck chairs and a pondering over a tequila sunrise.
Hubble’s Sharpest View of the Orion Nebula:
The Orion Nebula is a cavern of tumultuous gas and dust where thousands of stars are forming. The energy released by the young stars transforms their place of birth, whipping their surroundings into fantastic forms.
Well, sadly, this is the last day of Doodle Week. I’ve been flat out like a lizard drinkin with work but that assisted in my collection of doodles. The final theme of the week is Doodle Mad, and yes, many of us have gone Doodle Mad over the past week. I’ll reserve any comment about the meaning of my last doodle. The psychoanalysis of my workplace doodles from other’s has been much more entertaining 
I’d like to thank Claire for her support and promotion of Doodle week and Mark for his humorous insight and wit. Also, there’s now a great collection of Doodles in the Flickr Doodle Week group worth checking out and the Stickfiguregirl website contains most of the Doodle Week community.
Today’s Doodle Week theme is an Abstract Doodle. I think the majority of my doodles created while in meetings at work are abstract. This doodle was created on the header of a blank page of my note book. I think the meeting was about my budget. I reckon any long winded discussion about budget drives one to abstraction.
I’ve scanned the image and then laid in some color for nice effect. If you’re interested in all the details behind using opensource software to design and edit images, check out this post a couple of days ago.
I hope you’re enjoying Doodle Week. You can see many of the participants under Doodle Week Bloggers at Stickfiguregirl. if you get the hanking to participate, be sure to upload your doodle and check out the others on the flickr doodle group.
In the grand scheme of Doodle Week today’s theme is a Doodle phone book scribble or a doodle day dream.
Do you ever have those days where you think that things could not possibly get worse … then it does? It gets this way at work sometimes. I was in this frame of mind when I created today’s doodle.
Be sure to upload your doodle and check out the others on the flickr doodle group.
