Joe took some photos while he was in town for the concert too!
Our favourites are the ones he gets when he is recording what he calls the 'mood' of a day, whatever time of the day or year it is, whatever the season is. Joe knows that every single day is different - different colours at sunrise, different breezes and smells and flowers out, even the birds you see everyday can be acting a bit different than they were yesterday when they were fishing because today they're collecting twigs to build a nest and lay eggs that will hatch as baby birds.
We like to remember this when we're 'having a bad day' as it reminds us that the next day will be different - a new day, with new colours, new things the birds and other wildlife are doing - in fact, things can change even over a few hours, just like the sunlight changes the shadows of tress as it moves across the skies. So, if we stub our toe and go 'no, no, no!' at lunchtime, by after school time we might be ready to do some handstands and cartwheels again, because even we are changing our moods.
That's why we take a deep breath too sometimes - just to slow down a little and let a pesky mood, that's bothering us, leave or fade away.
Joe always send in some great information about what he has been photographing - and here is some of what he has seen and said last week.
Joe says: ''this is an unusual shot of our regular friend the octopus who we find in the tidal flats alongside the Narrabeen Rock Pool wall. Most locals call him 'Occy'. He is curled up here and displaying his light colours to disguise as a rock. In the middle of the pic, the two little white patches are his eyes.
To give you a bit of size, his head would fit in the palm of your hand, and his tentacles would reach to your elbow. He has become a local attraction.''
Joe's photo:
''I saw a smaller octopus nearby as well this week'':
An interesting cloud sunrise from Narrabeen Rock Pool, with an interesting reflection. This was last Tuesday 13 Feb 2024. The corner of the pool is the disturbed water on the right, and the calmer water on the left is what I call the tidal flats. This area gets exposed at low tide, and where our resident octopus & other sea creatures live.
