Thanks mate, I'm rather pragmatic about death generally, but it still affects me of course. The drive was a bit of a killer although long distances in Australia are taken in our stride as everywhere is a long way off.
The nature thing, yep it's awesome right? The only frustration is that the bloody bees wouldn't keep still for my shots so I gave up. Bees will be bees.
Anything we do deliberately can be a mindful practice.
Yes indeed. I find it is so and that's one of the reasons I like making ammunition...it's relaxing and meditative in the same way actual meditation is, weeding, cleaning fountain pens, building Lego etc.