After doing the Jane McGrath Classic in the morning, I decided I'd not done enough for Australia Day, and went down the coast all the way to Wollongong, stopping off at Bald Hill, and going via the Sea Cliff Bridge. Here's some pictures from that trip out.
Enjoy!
Just a by-the-by: there were actually 14 tankers/container ships off Wollongong's coast yesterday, but I didn't get all of them in the picture.
Low cloud at Wombarra (I think it was there...)
The Sea Cliff Bridge from Bald Hill - the low cloud can be seen in the distance
Low cloud over the ocean, with the tankers/container ships just noticeable
It was enjoyable to see sun in the afternoon after a few days of rainy, wet days.
I have just received an e-mail, and had to investigate more...
A social experiment using one of the finest young violinists in America took place in April 2007. The experiment was to see if people would stop and appreciate the music he played in a busy Washington D.C. metro (underground) station. He had roughly 22 people stop to listen to him, and appreciate his playing, and raised around $US32.
Considering Joshua Bell can play to packed concert halls, each ticket equating to somewhere between $US50 and $US100, it can possibly be determined that we don't take the time to appreciate fine music. Not only that, we don't take time to, not relax, but to savour those moments worth remembering and appreciating. (There's that word again.) Perhaps it's time to take a moment, enjoy a show (all 2:36 of it), and watch how people don't even realise what a wonderful musician can accomplish on a Stradivarius Violin (worth $3.5mil).
Take time, people, to stop and smell the roses, as well as appreciate and savour the moment. It's worth it, sometimes, and you might not even realise who you're watching, or why what you're viewing is so wonderful... It's great because it just is... (Yeah, great grammar, I know...but I don't care!)
