This will hurt me...

The wasp at work. Royal Botanical Gardens, Hobart. February 2013. As you know, the Internet is a wonderful place filled with the rich and varied treasures of the world holds (and RSS feeds.) The following are some things that I've had a look at in the last week. I call this: a Compendium of Click-throughs for Monday Morning... Celebrating Cassandre: Gorgeous Vintage Posters by One of History’s Greatest Graphic Designers. Good Show Sir: Only the worst Sci-fi/Fantasy book covers. The Savage Wit Of Mark E Smith.

Cherry?

You know that part where Tom Cruise is in his undies and dances around to Bob Seger? This is nothing at all like that.

You'd never ever wish for a bushfire, but they do have the capacity to generate very interesting sunsets.

More smoke! Errol Flynn Park, Sandy Bay. March 2013. Another stolen Q and A from Sunday Stealing: The Basically Obscure Meme-Part 2 . 38: How did you spend Valentine’s day? Much like any other work day. I've never been someone to be told when and how to express my emotions. 39: Do you eat enough vegetables? I think that I do. I eat more than most. 40: Do you like horror movies? How about thrillers? They're okay. I'll be frank though and admit that I've had little time for films in the past six or seven years. 41: Do you like scotch? ? Not particularly. 42: Who is someone you would never swear in front of? I avoid swearing in any work context (unless I'm very sure of the sensitivities of the person that I'm talking to). 43: Coolest thing you've ever seen on Halloween? We don't really have Halloween here in Tasmania. I did like the film, however. 44: If you could change your natural hair colour, would you? To what? I'm happy wi...

Whose house? [SAY WHAT?] Ezra's house!

Hot and cold?

Summer is coming to an end. Primrose Beach, Primrose Sands. February 2013. Wordless Wednesday. Wordless Wednesday, Primrose Sands, beautiful water, lovely sights, Hobart in the Summer, Primrose Beach, boats,

One of these people does not need a wetsuit...

Mr Krabs? Is that you...?

Ezra's legs. Opossum Bay Beach, South Arm Peninsula. February 2013. Ezra reminds me of the 1988-89 Detroit Pistons. They knew how to kill... How to Kill , Keith Douglas Under the parabola of a ball, a child turning into a man, I looked into the air too long. The ball fell in my hand, it sang in the closed fist: Open Open Behold a gift designed to kill. Now in my dial of glass appears the soldier who is going to die. He smiles, and moves about in ways his mother knows, habits of his. The wires touch his face: I cry NOW. Death, like a familiar, hears And look, has made a man of dust of a man of flesh. This sorcery I do. Being damned, I am amused to see the centre of love diffused and the wave of love travel into vacancy. How easy it is to make a ghost. The weightless mosquito touches her tiny shadow on the stone, and with how like, how infinite a lightness, man and shadow meet. They fuse. A shadow is a man when the mosquito death approaches.

Surface. Hobart waterfront, Sullivans Cove. February 2013. Wordless Wednesday.

Honestly, this fella has taken to snorkelling like a... Like a... Well, like a... Like a Cousteau to water!

Anoplognathus at rest. Opossum Bay Beach, South Arm Peninsula. January 2013. Wordless Wednesday. Anoplognathus up close. Opossum Bay Beach, South Arm Peninsula. January 2013.

He thought that he had cut his lip. He did not.

Lights camera action . ANZAC Park, Lindisfarne. February 2013. More questions? Of course! Stolen from Sunday Stealing, as usual. This week: The Back 15 Meme ... 15) How do you vent out your anger? Ranting and raving. 16) Favourite toy as a child? Some kind of ball, most likely. 17) Favourite season? I like elements of each, but if I have to choose I'd say Summer. 18) Do you ever get letters delivered by the post office? Most letters have at some point been processed by the post office... 19) When was the last time you laughed hard? Good question. I can't specifically remember, but it most likely involved cruelly mocking someone. 20) What is on the floor of your closet? My shoes. 21) Are you any good at drawing? Not very good, but I can manage the basics. 22) What did you do last night? Read and then slept. 23) What are you most afraid of? Irrelevance. 24) Plain, cheese or spicy hamburger? Spicy with salad. 25) Favourite dog breed? I'm not...

The place I long to be. If I had the whole world. I would give it away. Just to see, the girls at play. ... ... Ooh, ooh, ooh.

Tranmere, as seen from Sandy Bay. January 2013. Wordless Wednesday.

Jen and Hen risk life and limb down on Opossum Bay...

Kookaburra. Knocklofty Reserve, Mount Stuart. January 2012. Tasmania has 19 National Parks . I was happy to revisit two this past week, which is a beautiful segue into today's Sunday Top Five : The Fourteen National Parks That I Have Visited [Thus Far] In Tasmania ! Freycinet National Park : Henry and Ezra managed the Wineglass Bay walk, swim included. Only one of them managed to make it up the mountain on the way back without being carried.... Douglas-Apsley National Park : The highlight here? One of us - who shall remain nameless - whipping the gear off and skinny dipping in the waterhole... Hartz Mountains National Park Ben Lomond National Park Cradle Mt - Lake St Clair National Park Rocky Cape National Park Narawntapu National Park Savage River National Park Mole Creek Karst National Park Walls of Jerusalem National Park The Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park Mt Field National Park Tasman National Park South Bruny National Park That leav...