Deirdre

@dstraughan.bsky.social

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Survived 40 years in tech, having opinions online even longer. Born in New Orleans, I've lived in Thailand, Bangladesh, India, 17 years in Italy. I now mostly post about living and gardening in Australia. She. Lots about me on my website beginningwithi.com

A translucent gold Commodore 64 console with gold keys and multicolored LED flashing in time to the music
Vibrant portrait of an older musician seated with an acoustic guitar, surrounded by speakers, a mixing desk, and a piano in a recording studio.
Sign with a photo of 4 various women. Text: Everyone experiences perimenopause differently. And where you can get more info
My hand holding a plastic tray of seed. One more is perched on the edge of the tray picking out the seeds it likes the other is on the railing, just beyond tentatively trying to take some seed, but apparently afraid of the one that’s already eating
A plant with long needle leaves and tiny white loopy flowers
The plant with long stems bearing small oval leaves and magenta flowers
Brush tail possum peeking out from the dense mango leaves, at night
Uprights pylons and arches with colorful chasing lights
page of APC magazine with Brendan’s article on Revving up Solaris
Plant with long stems covered in long narrow leaves and small bright yellow blooms
Branch of bougainvillea with red-magenta bracts
A plant with long stems covered in tiny leaves (similar to the leaves of thyme, hence the name) with pale magenta furry looking flowers
Unexciting view of our washing machine
A T-shirt inscribed San Francisco the city that never backs down California, USA 94109
A plant with two long stems with long needle, like leaves all over and clusters of small puffy white flowers and buds
A shop display of blank, writable CDs and CD cases
Evening scene on our deck with three kookaburra’s perched on the rail and two watching from beyond
Dark horizon with the lights of houses on a hill, beyond it, the last edges of sunset with a bright red fire and black smoke
Sunset on the horizon with dark clouds of smoke rising
tall greenery topped with flowers: light, magenta, cosmos, zinnias in
Stars in a dark sky
A clump of zinnias with magenta petals fading to white at their tips. One blossom in the corner of the frame is different
A small white ceramic vase with three blooms in shades of salmon, bright orange, and pink
Sydney Harbour and the Opera House from Circular Quay station
Head on view of waves crashing into the big ocean pool at Cronulla
Close up of a many petaled salmon pink dahlia
As described
Face on view of a kookaburra. The white feathers along the sides of her head are erect so she almost looks like she’s got a flat top haircut
Overhead view of a wire mesh basket holding five midsized butternut squashes
A small low growing plant with feathery leaves and daisy like pale purple flowers with bright yellow centers
A flower with many petals magenta towards the center of the bloom, with ragged white tips. The center of the flower is dark magenta ringed with tiny yellow flowers
me and Robyn lifting glasses of red wine at a chic Paris restaurant. I think I made my employer pay for that one
Ben Rockwood, me, and Brendan pose together. Ben and Brendan were born on the exact same day, same year, and we had all been colleagues for
Conference room carpet in blue, rust, orange, beige etc depicting houses on a geometric abstract background. Yes, it is as ugly as it sounds
A flower with lime green petals surrounding a green center ringed by tiny yellow flowers
While wise men, long beset by doubt, Wander from pole to pole, The fool who knows his way about Is first to reach the goal.
Home page of my dinner decision app
A brick wall with several plants as aforementioned, far left is a marigold that hasn’t bloomed yet
A huge pot shaped clump of wormlike roots topped by numerous large buds with green leaves as well as dried stalks
A sulfur crested cockatoo, and a gray butcher bird on our deck rail. The Butcher bird throws back her head and sings.
Stickers: one heart shaped with Sophie and Benedict, one with Sophie in her masquerade costume, and one K-Pop Demon Demon Hunters
View of two kookaburra‘s sitting on our deck rail, pans to a cockatoo at my feet, and then back along the deck rail to a total of five kookaburras
A large bottle brush tree with the sun’s raise coming from behind picking out the light pink blooms
An Australian magpie splashing in a low terra-cotta bowl of water surrounded by flowering plants
A mid sized soft shrub with large leaves and midsized, bright orange blossoms with fuzzy yellow centers
Pan over the garden terrace of long vines going right and left from a central growth point, large leaves and a few butternut fruit of various sizes are visible. Interspersed with the butternut vine are zinnias and other plants
View through a screened window of next door roof where a is vocalizing
A bright red and green king parrots eating from a tray of seeds
A young plant with large leaves
A clump of zinnias in white, yellow, and various shades of pink
View of internal wood paneling
A view into the tree where two juvenile kookaburras are making a racket. You can’t actually see much of the birds
A lizard with long slender toes, a long tail,spines on the back of its head and down its back, hanging onto a small tree
A frog with a mottled pattern of shiny gold and bright green
Overhead view of the garden terrace below our deck, with two long arms of vine with big leaves, plus zinnias, roses, and more poking up among the butternut leaves
Close up of a bright yellow sunflower with a pale green center
A young ring tail possum perched on top of our awning frame
A largish tomato still green
A poster showing a cartoon cat with its paws crossed over its mouth, balloons surrounding it detail events like graduation, sports award, etc. text at the top says none of these occasions warrant politicians giving gifts