Through a phone blurrily

[katiefoolery]

I wish my camera phone took better pictures.  Actually, what I really wish is that I hadn't forgotten to take my camera with me to Beechworth, but I'm over that.  I've moved onto the camera-phone-hate.

Nevertheless, it was all I had and I used it when necessary although I now have cause to curse its complete inability to focus on anything, anything at all and its general crapitude.

With this bitter disclaimer out of the way, I hereby present for your viewing pleasure, the following images...

Oh, this cat has a hard life.  How tedious, to be forced to spend all day napping in the sun and occasionally being woken up in order to be fed.  No wonder she always looks so damn smug.  Notice the sun.  There was a lot of that.  I approved.

Canola is a big crop in the north east.  It grows heartily even in the midst of the severe lack of rain and it looks incredibly impressive.  Fields of yellow, stretching out to the horizon...

Well, this is a cute little house.  It seemed to require me to take a photo of it, so I did.  Who am I to argue with cute little houses?

Grammar rage!  Aaaaaaaaaarrrrrrghghghghghgh!  I saw the same ad on TV, too, with the same lack of spelling.  Are things really this bad?  Are people now unaware that the plural of any word ending in "y" should be "ies"?

See, I told you it's a hard life for Buffy.  She really knows how to look relaxed, does that cat.

And that was my trip to Beechworth.

Comments

[the-kaytinator.livejournal.com]

It's a cute little house!!!

Oh, I just want to wrap it up and put it in my pocket!!!

[dizzy-liz.livejournal.com]

Great photos! I'm sorry you're still not feeling well... get better soon!

[blackswans.livejournal.com]

Yay for pictures! I gotta say, your phone camera option is way more impressive than mine. Think pixellated. Very pixellated.

[sirgallivant.livejournal.com]

Your photos are lovely! Especially the first one. What a delightfully cute Buffy you have.
I share your grammar rage. Altough I've always been confused about words like 'monkey' and 'bushturkey', which are always pluralised as 'monkeys' and bushturkeys'. Why are they exceptions? Is it because they are marvellously plendiferous animals? Or some other reason?

[silverwerecat.livejournal.com]

Aw, Buffy! So hard, a cat's life...

[saltedpin.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous photos, despite having been taken on a phone :D

You see more and more grammatical errors in books these days -- it makes me really annoyed. LJ is one thing, published material is another!

[rilla06.livejournal.com]

Buffy is the cat version of my dog Zoe :P All she does is sleep in the sun, except when she's hungry.

[cat-eyes-el.livejournal.com]

Poor Buffy. She has such a hard life yet she still goes to the effort of trying to conceal it when people show up with cameras... :P

[naelany.livejournal.com]

cute kitty! What exactly is canola?? I know they make oil from it, but....

[alankria.livejournal.com]

It's such a hard life being a cat, isn't it? Lie around all day, look beautiful, occasionally wander languidly over to the food bowl and get instantly fed, look beautiful a bit more, have another nap, wander outside for a stroll in the sunshine, look beautiful, be stumbled across by diligent human who proceeds to lavish attention, lie down a bit after that exhausting process, eat a bit more, look beautiful...

I. Want. To. Be. A. Cat.

ARGH!&£%%^&£ at the grammatical error.

That yellow stuff looks like the wonderfully-named rape seed grown over here. Wonder if it's the same thing. Certainly the same garish yellow.

[ilexarts.livejournal.com]

I get grammar angry too, despite the fact that I make plenty of mistakes myself (I believe you have pointed out a few for me.) Still, you wonder sometimes about people... this mistake you saw was in an advertisement? If so, sometimes the clients are so fussy that they insist copy be printed as they presented it, even if there are spelling errors. Even if all the proofreaders and the designer have pointed out the mistake.

There's a town I drive through on the way to the in-laws' house that has 2 convenience stores - both owned by the same person (I think - they have the same big signage on the roof), both proclaiming "Discount Cigarets" in big red letters across the roof. After 10 years of going through there, either no one has had the cajones to tell them the sign is spelled wrong or they just don't want to shell out the extra $ to add a T and an E. As you know, money always trumps grammar when it comes down to it, so I wouldn't be surprised if it was the latter.

Your pictures don't look so bad as little thumbnail-ish things. :) I forgot to charge the batteries on my camera nad ended up with some like that for my daughter's birthday. :(

Hope you are feeling better.

[rigel-7.livejournal.com]

Such a sweet little house. We should buy it and become a hippie-esque commune where of course the grammar grows as high as an elephant's eye and the cats can laze in the sun all day!

[arieo.livejournal.com]

Sigh. It looks like a tough life, being a cat :)
Beechworth looks so nice. It looks like a very carefree and relaxing place, where you could sit on your front porch and look out at your fields of canola :D

[arctic-firefox.livejournal.com]

*sigh* ... at the ABS induction session there were a lot of misplaced apostrophes, so I completely sympathise. How the literacy level in this nation has sunk so low I cannot understand.

Canola is a wonderful plant; in fact, if we were to use it as a fuel, it would be so much CHEAPER and LESS POLLUTING. Okay, so it only works in diesel engines, but I'm sure someone could find a way around that!

Life seems so much simpler in regional Victoria ... *sigh*