Author: Jude Tulloch

  • It’s a Cruiser: Orange butterfly at Magnetic Island

    It’s a Cruiser: Orange butterfly at Magnetic Island

    This beautiful male Cruiser butterfly hovered long enough for my talented friend Helen who has an eye for photography and the patience to wait for the perfect photo. Taken at Magnetic Island on the walk from Nellie Bay to Arcadia.

  • Evening Walk, Marcus Creek

    Evening Walk, Marcus Creek

    Cloud reflections in Marcus Creek, a coastal creek in Noosa, Queensland, Australia

  • The magic of letting go

    The magic of letting go

    “Are you sure you want to get rid of the table?” asked Col, knowing that I’d taken considerable time to get all the water-damaged broken chipboard and tiles off the top of the salvaged coffee table before giving it a new life. “I’ve had the fun of transforming it and using it. Someone else might…

  • The appreciation for old dogs

    The appreciation for old dogs

    I love old dogs.  More often than not, I pause to pat them, and they look up at me with old eyes, full of appreciation and resignation. Dogs live for their walks. On the beach, the old dogs walk slowly, lagging behind their owners, their heads down, stiff-limbed moving with dogged determination. Even though it…

  • The Abundance of Joy

    Joy is a sensory experience, feeling, hearing, touching, smelling, connecting. It is in the small details of our everyday lives that joy resides.  The joyful moments are there, if we take time to notice them. Joy is hearing the Glossy Black Cockatoos squawking amongst the trees in the morning on the dunes behind my house before they…

  • Letting go in the New Year

    Letting go in the New Year

    Let go of one possession each day Have you made any New Year’s Resolutions? There is nothing remotely interesting about my New Year’s Resolution. It’s in the category of social media posts detailing what you ate for breakfast, trivial. So why am I posting it? Well, how many people keep their New Years Resolutions? Not…