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Just a few photos that were floating around waiting to be blogged..

3mm thick ice on the pool
3mm thick ice on the pool

The breakfast gang
Breakfast gang

Mt Rogers view
Mount Rogers view

Kookaburra on a lamp post
Kookaburra on a lamp post

Galahs having a shower in the rain
Galahs having a shower



65 years

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Hiroshima, 65 years on


Europe panoramas

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Tonight I blogged my Europe honeymoon panoramas - check them out!

I think these three are my favourites :)


Austrian Alps
Austrian Alps

Tegelberg
Füssen area from Tegelberg

German and Austrian Alps from Tegelberg
German and Austrian Alps from Tegelberg

Painter panorama

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Have I ever mentioned how much I love Microsoft Image Composite Editor?

Mt Painter Panorama

(went for a drive and a walk at lunch time today)

Last night (I think because it was Friday and I didn't feel like doing anything else) I went on a mission to find a good panorama creator.  I've used PanaVue (from 2000) in the past but it's slow and clunky and a manual process to line up pixels.  So thought there must be a better way.  A quick LifeHacker search later led me to Microsoft Image Composite Editor.

And it just works!

You drag images you want to merge into it, and it automagically creates panoramas with no fuss and does a pretty decent job of it too (except with water - where it sort of draws a straight line down where it can't match.  This could maybe be done better by trying to smoosh the water a bit, but in the grand scheme of things, it's not too bad).

In a few hours I created 33 panoramas from pictures taken mostly this year, and 53 from our Europe trip.  

This morning I did 17 from our Japan trip.  The best ones of these are on the Japan blog. Check them out!

More will end up on conspiracy eventually, but here's one from our Melbourne trip.

Yarra River Panorama


Mogo

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The parents headed off this morning, their plan being to go to Mogo Zoo.  Looks like they had a much better day for it than we did last time we went.  Here's some of Stu's photos of our day at Mogo Zoo, as promised six months ago...

Lions
Mogo Zoo - Lions

Red Panda
Mogo Zoo - Red Pandas

Meerkat
Mogo Zoo - Meerkat

Duck
Mogo Zoo - Duck

White tigers
Mogo Zoo - White tigers

Giraffe
Mogo Zoo - Giraffe

Zebra
Mogo Zoo - Zebra


I've posted pics of red rumped parrots before, but got some super cool pics of some yesterday.  Aren't they little sweeties?

Red rumped parrots

Red rumped parrots

Red rumped parrots


So after the drenching we got two weekends ago, last weekend the mushrooms were out in full force..

Canberra mushrooms

Canberra mushrooms

Canberra mushrooms


Actually this was week before last .. been seeing a lot of balloons lately

Balloons

Last Sunday morning I made pancakes for breakfast

Pancakes

Thursday morning took photos of fish

Duboisies

And saw a big Dong

Dong balloon

Friday there were four gak gak birds lined up in a row

Four gak gaks

Saturday we had a pastry and coffee at Knead

Knead

and then did our food shopping afterwards.

I did a jigsaw

Dog jigsaw

And did a bunch of UK planning.

Didn't end up going out for dinner, which was a bit sad-making.  Watched Toy Story 1 and 2 instead.

Today it was miserable again, so stayed inside all day.  Did a whole lot of nothing, played a game of Ticket to Ride Europe, and cooked dinner.  Which is still cooking :)

Lake Walk

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Willy Wagtail
Willy Wagtail

Purple Swamphen
Purple swamphen

Willy Wagtail and Masked Lapwing
Willy Wagtail and Masked Lapwing

Lake Ginninderra
Lake Ginninderra


Two years ago today we explored some of Vienna, wasted half the afternoon doing our washing, and walked a looong way along Donauinsel
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I am a recent Canberra resident after having spent the first 34 years of my life in Sydney. I am married to my beautiful husband Stu, and we live with several computers and a lot of fish.

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