Through the Eyes of Sisters - Topic: Work

Well, this was Heid's theme and I have to say when I got I was not so enthusiastic - but I felt better when even Heid's said she thought it was a kak theme although I wouldn't have gone that far.  She said she had hopes of dragging her girls down to the harbour and taking pics of oil tankers and the big lift trucks and the containers and the workers, but they had a hideous wind storm for the last week and have pretty much stayed couped up indoors.   So she improvised and captured her new "work" .. so that has been the inspiration behind her pic.

I like it!  Nice job - through the lens, through the eyes, eyes are windows to the soul, photography is a soulful past time . . .

I just couldn't bring myself to photograph more of my work than I already do for my South Shore Organics facebook page, so I had to find inspiration elsewhere and this week I went looking for it.  Sort of.  Remember I told you about our swan?  Who is sitting on a nest making cygnets and earning jewellery?  Well, here she is:

Not the best photo, but I didn't want to get too close and it was misty and raining and WINDY too (not just in New Zealand Heid's, did you see the news about our tornado's?  187 of them in one day thank you very much!  Poor Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia - in fact, the southern half of the eastern seaboard seems to have been hard hit).  Back to my picture.   I chose her because she has not budged since she laid the eggs, you can go past her any time night or day and she is ALWAYS there.  That's WORK if you ask me, but then, ask any mother and she will tell you that children are hard work - there is no down time, no 'off duty' sign you can put up like a cab driver (although, that's not a bad idea!).  Regardless of how tired you are, you will still get up to answer the whimpers of a sick child, or wake up early to finish a science project . . . and here is this beautiful lady, sitting on hard round eggs for WEEKS for her progeny.  Is this mother nature or a nurturing mother?  I think raising young can only be a labor of love, so the answer to that old question is nurture for sure!  Sorry, what did you say?  Where is the expectant dad?  I am happy to report he is not out drinking with the boys, but rather hovering and foraging . . . isn't he a handsome fellow?  You can see how she got into this mess, I mean, nest.

And speaking of dad's, one of my other ideas for this week was to catch Mark hard at work:

Our first barbie/bbq/braai for the season!  The weather finally broke - YIPPEE!  And last photo for this blog, just so that you can see that I do actually work for a living, here is our van loaded up to go:

This was not taken this week, it is from a few weeks ago (there is still snow on the ground) but I attended a women's business network breakfast this morning, and a motivation speaker gave us permission to break the rules!  Since I didn't author the rule book and I don't know the person who did (do you?) I have decided she is right, that I should work on my own rule book, and who knows, maybe I'll get published!