I’m up to day 220 of daily walks and, according to my iPhone, I’ve taken over two million steps since August last year. Thankfully, on most weekday mornings, Big Boy still walks with me.
Here are some recent pics from our early mornings on the Inner West Greenway and the Iron Cove Bay Run. We’re blessed to have such lovely public spaces within minutes of home!
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Our route takes us under several bridges, and I’m always intrigued by the play of light on the water. Last week, the City West Link overpass created amazing stripey reflections. I walk under this bridge almost every day…
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If you look carefully, you can pick the two shades of reflected light – white and gold…
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In the morning, the sun is gentle and shaded, but in the afternoon, it glitters like diamonds on the water…
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It has rained every day in Sydney for weeks, which has made walking tricky (I’ve had to resort to the treadmill on a couple of occasions). But all the extra water has created lush, fairytale trees…
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Overcast skies produce mangificent watercolour hues…
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Pete said I needed to disclose that the photo below wasn’t taken in a woodland setting – it’s a gutter in Surry Hills during a rain shower (I cropped out the cigarette butts)…
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Captured on a rare sunny day a few weeks ago, these aluminium boats are known locally as tinnies. To my eyes, they make the photo quintessentially Australian…
The best coffee on our route is made by Sammy at the UTS Rowers Club…
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We’ve become avid cloud watchers, but we’re still rubbish at identifying them…
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I now understand why artists paint the sea in blues and greys, because this is exactly how it looked this morning…
Finally, my wonderful son, reflected in one of the many mirror puddles left by the recent deluge…
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Wishing you all happy days! ♥
Fig Jam and Lime Cordial 
Wow! How wonderful to see your walk through your lens Celia. Just beautiful!
Have a great week.
:-) Mandy xo
Wow – I love these photos and gazed at the top one for ages. I think that’s a great shot. You should upload that to unsplash.com if you don’t mind sharing it with the world. All these photos are worthy. :)
Please send some rain down to Hobart we’ve only had 6 mls since Christmas and my garden has its tongue hanging out. How’s your leather shoes, mouldy? I enjoy your recipes, keep up the walking good on ya.
Gorgeous. And congratulations on your walking….great to see us kitchen wenches taking care of ourselves 😊
Lovely walk and fabulous photos.
Very nice….thanks
Celia, I have really been enjoying your daily walk pics, so many changes every day in what you see. I thought of you yesterday when we were looking under the pier at Williamstown, hoping to snap something as memorable, but all I could see was cloudy water. You would love the clouds and sky in Greece, I was stunned to think that they could look so different in other places. Hat’s off to you for your commitment, wish I had a zillionth of yours.
Lovely pictures.
I enjoyed those photos, Celia. It is a lovely gift to be able to see the beauty in light and shade and unexpected contrasts. I especially like the reflection of the rippling water, lovely.
Celia, these photos are beautiful. Thank you for sharing such a treat for the eyes.
Wonderful photos: love the one of your son . . . . And thank you for the encouragement of ‘anything you can do . . . ‘ – I don’t mean ‘better’ in Annie Oakley style, but ‘also’ :) !
I LOVE the under the bridge image – maybe you could print that one..c
Such a beautiful city! Fascinating to this Maine woman, that’s for sure.
Your walks are gorgeous and you’ve inspired me to take my walking outdoors as soon as it warms up (still hovering around 0C). We live about a 10 minute walk to a georgeous park (High Park) and 20 minutes to Lake Ontario, 30 minutes to the Humber River Valley so I’m going to really change it up in the spring. I want to increase my daily goal to 20,000 steps!
Beautiful pictures Celia! They could grace the pages of a calendar.
Lovely photos of water. Don’t you just love the way the air smells after the rain? Walk on! Maz
Only another two hundred million steps and you’ll reach England. Love the under the bridge shot though would happily walk any of these stretches with you.
Just a simple thank you, Celia.
Those were wonderful…..amazing what we see when we walk and can SEE!!
Daily walks have a wonderful way of opening our eyes to the world, the repetitiveness gives us the opportunity to really see, and share as you have done, beautifully ♡
Absolutely lovely photographs, thank you for taking us along on your walk.
Lovely pics, Celia – you must be fit as anything by now!
I had never heard of Haberfield (and surrounds) before your blog entries Celia. I’m loving seeing it through your eyes/lense.
I love seeing your photos from your daily walks, darling… I wish we lived a little closer to somewhere as pretty as this… our duck ponds are within cycling distance, but with all the work on the light rail not far from home, it’s far from a peaceful walk out there right now (and for the next year or so!). Boo. What Amanda said too, about being fit! Go you. xxx
Gorgeous pictures Celia. I can’t wait for my visit to Sydney 😃