Day 159/366

I bought this mobile in 2010 when Mr Honey Pie & I visited Wyndham Western Australia.

Wyndham is Western Australia's most northern town.

The mobile is made from boab tree nuts which have been cut into two and carved and polished.

Boab trees can live for anything up to six thousand years.

While in Western Australia, we visited two boab trees which, in the past, were used as lock ups, for Indigenous Australian prisoners in transit. They are known infamously as Boab Prison Trees.

One is in Derby and the other in Wyndham.

One of these trees is said to have the ability to house up to ten people at a time.

How ironic that such a significant tree was put to such use.

Day 15/366

This is not what I originally intended to post for my day's photograph.

I started out photographing the beautifully soft and furry leaves of oh-so-green banksias, resulting from all the rain we're having this summer (even as I post!).

My photographs were all washed out and I was not happy with them at all.

Then this beautiful diary caught my eye. 

It's a gift from our son's girlfriend to my Mr Honey Pie...a belated Christmas present.

It's has a very ornate cover in a mottled brick red colour and so I photographed that.

I'm feeling very much in the mood to play around with Picasa's editing program today and this is the outcome.

I realized that a beautifully hued item has resulted in a reflection of today's weather...grey.

I hope you like it!