Hi everyone..thankyou so much for all the beautiful birthday wishes and cards on Facebook and here..thankyou all for making an old gal feel very special indeed..i will share my cards with you all later this week..and i want to also say i am so happy and relieved that Easy’s Dad Mark is home and on the mend..and that i still send my love to my little sister Lisa as she mourns the loss of her gorgeous doggie Skii at the age of 13..it has been a sad few days and hence the reason i did not post on my birthday…
Today i want to talk about aging..i am not worried to say i am 54..i am lucky i have made this journey so far when so many do not..
I have earnt every wrinkle..every stretch mark..i know my butt is no longer where it used to be..even my knees now look oddly different..but i have walked many miles..i have seen and done many things and i have no worries in saying i am no longer 26..
There is a beauty that comes with age..a patina that only lifes experiences can leave..the good and the bad have a profound effect on us..both physically and spiritually.
But what a boring canvas we would be without those layers of life emblazoned across us ..yes being younger we have a youthful glow..but aging gives a mellowness that has it’s own glow..born of many paths travelled.
So i thought today i would share some of those travels..i travelled a lot over the week..in fact in one day i racked up 260 kilometres..
I found some old things that had their own gorgeous patina..and also some new things full of the glow of youth..none of these were people..but landscapes and buildings..also able to age and weather and show beauty as they do…
Loves Fozziemum xxx
A beauty in the bush
New beginnings in the field
Once was..now no more
The lone tree and the looming sky
Another past
The path to once
Winds of change
Rust in the water
The old farm the new crop
Vibrant and fresh
Where the water passed
Fields of green and skies of grey
Beauty in age
A proud life left behind
FOZZIE.M 
We missed your birthday!!! Oh Nos!!!
Me will sing anyway!!!
Mee!!
Meeee!!!!
Meeeeee!!!!!!!
*•.¸¸♪♫•Happy Belated Birthday to you ♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸♪♫•¸¸.•*
¨*•♫♪ Happy Belated Birthday to you ♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸♪♫•
¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪ Belated Happy Birthday Dear Foozie’s MuuumMMmm!!!!! ♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸♪♫•
¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪ Belated Happy Birthday to you! ♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸♪♫•
Kisses
Nellie Bellie and Mommy
PS we LOVE your photos!
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Oh Nellie Sweetie thankyou..you and Mum have a great singing voice indeed 🙂 and thankyou i am glad you like the photos too 🙂 🙂 loves Fozziemum xxx
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Life’s rich tapestry indeed. Very sad about Skii but that’s really not a bad age for a girl her size.
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Yes it is rich 🙂 very much so..Skii was a boy bless him and yes he was so bright and alert but sadly that doggie motor neurone was catching up..and it was time..as always we want more..loves Bev xxxxx
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I cried as I read the post of your sis on FB…. that’s so darned hard to say good bye… Thanks for inviting me to a tour, I love this old abandoned houses, I always stop when I see an interesting one and I ponder how I would bring it back to life with my own hands. ok, we better stay away from any diy-project for a while, but I like it to do it in my imagination…
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I know it was awful..we could not talk to each other as we knew we would lose it..he was the gentlest boy and still so bright and aware..heart breaking…i am glad you like the tour..at least you could do so safely..i accidentally tresspassed..started to sink in a bog which nearly sucked my boot off my foot and drove home stinky….i agree i think maybe DIY should be avoided at all costs…just admire and move on hahahaha xxx
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absolutely gorgeous!!!!!! wise words as well. Try turning 60 soon (like me) lol, you might be singing a different tune xoxoxo absolutely gorgeous!!!!!! wise words as well. Try turning 60 soon (like me) lol, you might be singing a different tune xoxoxo
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Hahahaahah i do not know about that..if i look like you at 60 i will be super happy my sweets 🙂 and thankyou i like these day trips..even if i do accidentally trespass and almost get my boot sucked off in bogs….yikes! 🙂 xxxxx
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Gorgeous – gorgeous – gorgeous – and your pictures aren’t bad either my friend – winks. Love them as always. And yes we age like fine wine – with grace and beauty. I hope you had a wonderful day – not just for your birthday but for every day. We enjoyed our talk the other night – hope you got that cake 🙂 XOXO – Bacon
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Thankyou my friend i enjoyed it to 🙂 i had a little raspberry tart ..was delish… 🙂 and yes i had a lovely travel around getting a numb butt and wind blown..almost sinking in stuff like quicksand..yikes….:) nitey nite my darling friend 🙂 and thankyou fro the compliments on the shots too xxx Fozziemum xx
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Bev,
Sorry we missed your special day.
Your words of wisdom on aging are the truth, I’ll have to
remember them. I turned 62 last month might have
to print this post and tape it to the refrigerator.
Beautiful photos, no way to pick a favorite.
Linda and Cinnamon
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Linda and Cinnamon please no apologies ..and your bloggie has been lost with other blogger folks as WP misbehaves! age is truly hard for some and i think hitting 30 was worse for me than any birthday since..no idea why ! thankyou for the lovely compliment and you just embrace 62..and a belated Happy Birthday from all of us too 🙂 loves Bev xxx
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First of all a Happy Belated Birthday, Bev! I have a few more years on you and I absolutely agree … every wrinkle tells its own tale. I’ve looked at pics of myself in my younger years and have actually decided I really, I MEAN THIS, I really like how I look now compared to then. As you say, I’ve acquired a patina, a softness, a more self-assured expression, eyes filled with Love and Laughter.
I LOVED LOVED LOVED your images, just taken away with each one of them. It looks like you as well are seeing bodies of water disappear. It’s shocking, isn’t it? I adored your titles to each image and could relate not only to what I was seeing, but the words as well. I know I do not get here oft enough as I would like to, but when I do, I really enjoy your Blog. May we all BE Blessed with good health for the rest of our lives. Oh, and please pass on to your sister my deepest condolences. God knows, I understand that loss. Truly!! (((HUGS))) Amy ❤
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Amy thankyou so much for your lovely words…indeed we are lucky to be here when many never get to experience much life…i prefer my youthful face i must say but much prefer my older happiness 🙂 water is slowly going everywhere…we need rains that will fill our dams but they hold very little apart from moody skies…i so hope you get rains as needed also
..gentle but steady to help the poor old ground..Loves Bev xxxx
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Bev, what is so startling, is no matter how much precipation we get, and this year + last year a lot!, the water levels just keep going down. It makes no sense. I live near Lake Erie and from what I hear, the lake’s levels itself are going down. Where is all the water going? That is my million dollar question lately. Seriously. Is it global warming? Is it fracking? I don’t know, but what I am seeing is alarming!! I hope you get the rains you need. ❤
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What amazing photos that you are sharing today. I feel like you once again gave all of us the gift. Have a fantastic new year!
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Oh M.K what lovely words thankyou 🙂 and i aim to have a fantasyic year..loves Bev xxx
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Love your photo’s as always,Happy birthday again,you are beautiful in more ways then one,xx Rachel and Speedy
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Rachel and Speedy thankyou so much and thankyou for my lovely cards too 🙂 🙂 love Bev xxxx
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Fab photos. What a shame those properties are empty now.
Love your outlook on aging. I will be 53 this December and I really don’t mind. Like you say so many don’t get another year, month or day, so we should grab each new dawn with both hands.
Hugs
Sue, Polly & Honey
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Here here Sue…so agree 🙂 amd yes there is a sadness with the old farms…i always wonder at why and who…love to you all Bev xxxx
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You know I love your pictures and these are no different. They have your mark..FOZZIEMUM was here. One thing I couldn’t help but wonder while looking at the picture of the little house. Who lived there? Was it a young family enjoying the wild? Was it a man and woman growing crops to make money? So many questions as we have when we see an older person….not a young person. An older person has seen many things….horrible or happy or both.
Jean
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Jean thankyou…yes i wonder too…drought hit here hard and for a long time…the land also is terribly barren in many areas..maybe years of toil was too much..we may never know..but i see their beauty..and like the elderly i appreciate all the mysteries they hold of days gone by..Loves Bev xxxx
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HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY BEV!!! DID YOU REALIZE THAT MACnCHEESE IS THE FOOD FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH ?
ALL THAT CHEESE IS SO GOOD FOR YOUR SKIN. LET ME JUST SAY MY MOM IS OLDER THAN YOU AND OLDER THAN DIRT AND SHE TOOOOOO APPRECIATES EVERY SINGLE DAY
HUGS MADI AND MOM
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Your photographs are, as always, stunning. And your words that accompany them are poignant and wise! We say that age and years, and all that come with them, are what give character, meaning and proof of a life well-lived. Hugs to you and your crew, Bev!
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Thankyou fellow team Nikonites 🙂 indeed..our lifes map visible for all 🙂 no different to our sweet furry friends when the greys appear and the eyes soften 🙂 loves Bev xxx
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Love the photos. Ahhhhh, to be 54 again. No, wait, I’d still be working!
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Hahaha…yes there is a silver lining to the silver hairs 😉 thankyou sweets xxx
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Belated Happy Birthday! You are still young, not like my Mom who was born during the dinosaur age.
Beautiful pictures. Thank you for sharing them.
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Hahaha…well thankyou Simba 🙂 it’s
ok i too am old as dirt…but i think like a silly youngen…and thankyou for the compliments on the shots..loves Fozziemum xxx
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Gorgeous photos Bev and wonderful positive outlook.
Thanks for the reminder and a very Happy Birthday to you xx
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Robyn thankyou so much..and i think age is just a number..unless i am bent over in the garden hahaha 🙂 xxx
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Ha ha… Yep I totally get it Bev 😃
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Think a lot of us do hahaha 🙂
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Indeed 😜😜
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Bwhahahaga 🙂
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Great photos- especially the old houses. I love photos like that and like to imagine who used to live in them and how they ended up abandoned. I wish we could see inside too.
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Ellen thankyou do much…i was sotely tempted but one property is clearly no tresspass and the other though no signs and wide open…i felt a bit invasive…i leave them to their secrets 🙂 loves Bev xxxx
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The photos are fantastic as always, Bev, and I think that was a lovely way to spend your birthday week. I am so sorry for your sister’s loss of Skii as well, we know how much that hurts.
I also appreciate your words of wisdom since I turned the same age as you just less than a couple of months ago! I’m not sure I take it quite as well….
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OMD!!! DID I MISS YOUR BURTHDAY??!!! HOLY CRAP!!! MANY, MANY MANY APOLOGIES!!!! I can’t believes that…I am so embarrassed…though, I am not surprised, Ma hasn’t been on the ball lately, and been neglecting my bloggie! Wells, I sure hopes you had a most FABulous Burthday and got lots of margaritas and sparkly things!!! (that’s from Ma..I hopes you got lots of margaritas and biscuits…☺) Ma is just a few years younger than you, and her arse is WAY lower than it used to be!!! hehehehe
(shhhhhh, she didn’t see me write that…..)
I just loves your beautiful photos!!!! And I hopes you all are safe with all the crazy weather you are having over there!!!
Oh, and I wanted to gives you guys a ‘shout out’ for sendin’ some of your AMAZIN’ Firefighters here to help us with our fires!!! Many Thanks!!!
Kisses,
Ruby ♥
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Hahaha thankyou Ruby my sweets..no apologies i almost forgot my own birthday….i got a sparkly new camera so pretty happy about that!…oh and a raspberry tart…..yes what is with the ass droop??? And the knees..what is up with those baaaaaa..we are not looking foreward to summer at all…have a feeling in my waters your firies will be here this summer helping us.:( …stay safe sweeties loves Fozziemum cxxx
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As always, your pictures speak volumes. Age is a great way to learn that nothing is a matter of life and death – unless it’s an actual matter of life or an actual matter of death. May this be the best year of your life. And may the next years be even better…. Enjoy!
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Genevieve and Cupcake thankyou :)..o agree..enjoying life each day is easier as we get wiser…youth is great but comes with restrictions..so bon appetite at tbe table of good aged wine…aged cheese..and good old friends 🙂 xxxx
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the photos are amazing. I particularly liked the last one. Life is amazing. You are amazing. Happy Birthday my talented and accomplished friend. ❤
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Awwww Sharon thankyou so much 🙂 life ia awesome 🙂 loves Bev 😚😚
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Love the photos………..and love the “attitude” about aging……….I’m turning 68 soon and find that in my head I am YEARS younger……..the body is certainly aging though but I don’t mind. I had my time in the sun of youth and now that there are a few clouds in the sky (and gray in my hair) I don’t mind the lovely “mellowness” of it all…………..memories keep me warm and I’m still HERE after several bouts of serious illness so I’m happy…………..and I want to be that way for however many days lie ahead………………..and I know you do too! Glad you had a wonderful birthday dear lady as you deserve that and more.
Love, Pam (with Sam)
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Pam thankyou so much…68 is amazing because you really do not look at all 68…and your youthfullness rings in all your posts..i feel young in my heart and yes the body is not young anymore but being older is far more liberating..you keep that spark and you will be entertaining us for a long time here…much loves Bev xxxx
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All lovely pictures, Bev! I knew you would have a great birthday. I will be 64 next month and I am shocked I made it this far… 😀
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Hahaha…thankyou Pix….and you go girl!! Loves Bev xxx
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Oh Happy belated birthday! LOVE the photos! xx
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Bella and Esme thankyou so much 🙂 glad you like the photos too 🙂 loves Fozziemum xxxx
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Your gorgeous images prove there are many more KM on you girl! Love them, love you and your take on life. Many happy returns! ❤
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Sweets thankyou so much 🙂 🙂 i hope i have a few more miles on the clock 😉 xxxx
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We are so sorry we missed your birthday so Happy late Birthday. You are allowed to celebrate every day. And we are also sorry about your sisrer’s dog. Those are fantastic pictures. What fun to see all that. Have a great day.
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No apologies needed..we are an age where we should celebrate every day 🙂 thankyou for the lovely compliment and thankyou for the well wishes for my sis..she really is heart broken as we all know too well takes forever to heal…loves Bev xxx
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Wishing you a very late, and very happy birthday! Such lovely photos, you have a really good eye Fozziemum 🙂
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Aww thanks my sweets and all good..i celebrate all the time 🙂 and thankyou..i hope i show nice images 🙂 hugs Fozziemum xx
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beautiful post with just stunning photos.
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Jo thankyou …i am always happy to numb my butt travelling around 🙂 xx
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Been very quiet this week and not had a lot of opportunity to get out and about with the camera. I love all your photographs and look forward to looking at them. I did take a few photographs at the Wetlands and that was interesting. In about six weeks I head off to Mount Gambier – all new territory for me – so I will certainly have the camera with me and hope to get to the Blue Lake.
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Edgar that sounds great..i am heading to oink lakes in late october …seems a theme ..i hope you have a ball and get some great shots which i would love to see 🙂
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Happy Belated Birthday Bev!
What a lovely tribute to Aging. Your photos are lovely & yes there is beauty in old buildings & things if we look for the beauty.
Altho I am not aging ‘gracefully” (especially when I fall flat on my face) I do appreciate that I have made it to 59 1/2 & it is a miracle for me also.
We walk this path together….I am so glad we have each other to share the journey with & laugh & cry & commiserate!!!
(((HUGS))) Sherri-Ellen ❤
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Bwahahahaaahahha sweets we are both the same..just opposite sides of the globe 🙂 and i am so glad we have each other too! much love as always Bev xxxx
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Oh, Bev, I’m sorry I missed sending you birthday wishes on your special day. I hope it was wonderful. And you’re still such a young thing! Why, I can almost remember 54! You certainly have mastered your camera. Your photos are so gorgeous. Love and hugs! 😀 ❤
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Hahaah Linda thankyou 🙂 celebrate every day so never late 🙂 i am getting the hang of the new camera slowly ..very slowly haahaah 🙂 loves and hugs back sweets XXXXX
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