Just outside the building I work in is a tree with seeds that King Parrots obviously consider gourmet food. The male parrot is flashy with his red head and belly. This is either a female or a juvenile. Both images are cropped from larger ones, hence being a little grainy.
On a recent trip to Torrington, a couple of hours north of here, we found these small flowers on the granite outcrops. I loved the delicate colouring of the petals.
Early sunlight slanting through the trees, with the mist over the paddocks in the background. Perhpas it’s the weaver in me, but I do love the sight of spiders’ webs highlighted by dew, visible in the early sunlight. This small tree had many of them! (You’ll notice I said I love the sight of them…
Summer is drawing to a close, and overnight was a little cooler than it’s been lately. This morning a light misty rain dressed the scenery – and the many spiders’ webs – with delicate droplets. The grass seed heads with a sheen of moisture – I liked the contrasts of creams, browns and greens in…
When I was coming home last night, I had to stop the car because this lizard was right in the middle of the driveway, and I didn’t want to run it over. I got out of the car to shoosh it away, but it took sometime to convince it to move. At one stage I…
This lizard, lying very still, is well-camoflaged amongst the dry leaves of the bush floor. I had the dogs with me, and they were sniffing just a few feet away – fortunately, I was the only one of us who saw it.
Five years or so back, a friend gave me a geranium in a pot as a house-warming present. A leaf got broken off, and I stuck it in another pot and put it out on the verandah, and, as geraniums do, it grew well… until a local wallaby decided that geraniums were quite tasty, and…
The Wolery 