Celibate and Sane: Some found photos

September 15, 2010

Some found photos

My computer has been a bit sluggish lately - even before it picked up a virus! Last week I went onto a website for photos of Dolly Parton and hey presto, it had uploaded programs onto my computer without my knowledge and started infiltrating everywhere. Despite my good firewall and anti-virus system, it still managed to bypass it - in fact it wouldn't even let me access my anti-virus program. Anyway, the hard-drive went to the computer shop for a few days and the naughty virus was wiped off and the disk defragmented.

When I reconnected it though, I found it was still quite sluggish. Knowing my knack of taking very large photos, I went through my system and found that my photos (and movies) were about 18Gb. Mmmm, so I spent several more hours last night tidying up and reducing photos to more manageable sizes. So, we'll see if that makes a difference.

The point of the story is that I found some photos I had forgotten I had or thought I'd lost, as they'd been copied into the wrong directories. I thought you might like to see some photos from some of my travels in the last couple of years.

Gold Coast Hinterlands

Natural Cave and waterfall in Gold Coast hinterlands

This waterfall goes straight down into the cave shown above

North of Melbourne

Mounds of rock seem to bubble up out of
the ground in this area north of Melbourne

Sometimes hills seem to be covered with rocks,
while other areas just seem to sport a small crop of them.

Some more of the rocky hillsides.

Brisbane

Brisbane River with its steamboat

Japanese gardens at Mt Coot-tha near Brisbane

Capricorn Caves

Capricorn Caves entrance (north of Rockhampton)

Inside some of the caves

The caves are lit artificially and the walkways help to move around

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I love me, because God loves me. It's not that God doesn't see my flaws, they are like blazing torches in His eyes, but rather that He sees past my imperfections and still loves me. And who am I to argue with the perfect God that I am worthwhile, that I am worthy of love, and that He accepts me and wants me to be His child, His beloved daughter? When I understood this, I began to accept and embrace His version and His vision of me, and not the world's.

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"We so often just get caught up in trying to just get through each day, that we forget to pause and be thankful for the fresh one that is presented anew and untouched each morning."

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"I do not want to think of man, for that would distract me from God. But if I focus on God, I cannot help but think of my fellow man, and each day God keeps the scales balanced so that I have enough within me to do both."

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