tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75625290007852782692011-04-22T09:02:31.132+10:00Families with Children from China-Australia (FCC-Australia) is a non-denominational association of families and the only national Australian parent group that acts solely for families who have adopted or are in the process of adopting children of Chinese ethnicity.Magnolia's Friendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13244431161490646784noreply@blogger.comBlogger51100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7562529000785278269.post-37657366577670639622007-07-03T21:54:00.000+10:002007-07-03T22:16:50.231+10:00<div><img src="http://lh5.google.co.uk/fufairy/Roo3BmVwAvI/AAAAAAAAAH4/0zQO5EDtm4U/s400/Friendship.jpg" /><font color="#cc66cc" size="2">Photograph by Anne Rigby </font></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7562529000785278269-3765736657767063962?l=fccaustraliagreetingcards.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Magnolia's Friendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13244431161490646784noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7562529000785278269.post-18712503668549950402007-07-03T21:52:00.000+10:002007-07-03T22:16:39.537+10:00<div><img src="http://lh5.google.co.uk/fufairy/Roo5EmVwAyI/AAAAAAAAAIQ/OcwSN_RPKS0/s400/harmony.jpg" /><font color="#ff0000" size="2">Photograph by Tasha Moon</font></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7562529000785278269-1871250366854995040?l=fccaustraliagreetingcards.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Magnolia's Friendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13244431161490646784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7562529000785278269.post-635335917122775902007-07-03T21:47:00.000+10:002007-07-03T22:16:25.091+10:00<div><img src="http://lh5.google.co.uk/fufairy/Roo4qmVwAxI/AAAAAAAAAII/Z04wmaWB4ZM/s400/tranquility.jpg" /><font color="#6666cc" size="2">Photography by Anne Rigby</font></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7562529000785278269-63533591712277590?l=fccaustraliagreetingcards.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Magnolia's Friendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13244431161490646784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7562529000785278269.post-40717684694780417272007-07-03T21:46:00.000+10:002007-07-03T22:15:35.315+10:00<img src="http://lh6.google.co.uk/fufairy/Roo222VwAuI/AAAAAAAAAHw/TDl6wAg4tso/s400/destiny.jpg" /><span style="color:#ff9966;">Photograph by Phil Moon<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7562529000785278269-4071768469478041727?l=fccaustraliagreetingcards.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Magnolia's Friendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13244431161490646784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7562529000785278269.post-57947578277896851222007-06-27T16:08:00.000+10:002007-07-04T11:59:41.538+10:00<a href="http://www.blogger.com/<a%20href=" authkey="'EMRZXj2eVzI#5082937352334082818"></a><img src="http://lh6.google.co.uk/fufairy/Roo4l2VwAwI/AAAAAAAAAIA/QyT-6WnnGTs/s400/love.jpg" /><span style="color:#009900;">Photograph by Lisa Wilson </span><br /><p><span style="color:#009900;">About the photograph</span></p><p><span style="color:#009900;"><span style="color:#000000;">Lisa took this photograph in September 2005 at the Chengdu Panda Research Centre, Sichuan. Lisa had returned to China with her family to celebrate the second anniversary of their daughter's adoption.</span></span></p><p><span style="color:#009900;"><span style="color:#000000;">The Panda Research Centre is on the outskirts of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan. The centre houses many pandas and is an active panda breeding centre. Lisa's family were even able to view a female and her 2 day old baby through a nursery window.</span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">As Lisa explains:</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">'We had to visit the Research Centre early in the morning - the pandas like to eat their breakfast and then sleep for the rest of the day. They are definitely more active in the mornings. </span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Even though it was very hot later in the day, the morning was cool and misty and it gave the whole centre a really mystical feeling - it was lovely.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">It was an amazing experience so many pandas in one place - I have seen pandas before in a zoo setting although never so many in one place. And here we were so close to them. Most of the enclosures were quite large and naturally landscaped.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">The two pandas in the photograph were 'teenagers' and there were two other pandas in this large enclosure with them. </span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">But I was drawn to these two with the beautiful stand of bamboo behind them. They looked like they were sitting down having a little chat over their breakfast."</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7562529000785278269-5794757827789685122?l=fccaustraliagreetingcards.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Magnolia's Friendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13244431161490646784noreply@blogger.com0