Day 16 - we have visits from our Australian wildlife quite often at Artisans ...on the hill. This fellow stopped to check us out before he continued on his way lolloping across the front paddock!
Day 15 - If you follow this blog for any length of time, you will notice I take photos of a variety of things in nature. However, I do have my favourites and spider webs are one of these. This photo I took a few years ago on a very cold and misty morning in a timber yard in Queenstown on the west coast of Tasmania. I can just about feel the cold still!
Day 14 - I love lavenders - this one is specially propagated for New South Wales' humidity (cross between a french and Italian variety). It is small of stature and clumps beautifully. Not a lot of perfume except in its crushed leaves, but a beautiful and profuse flowering bush
Day 13 - we have lots of native ducks who visit us regularly, but we have one pair who live here permanently, so they've been named!
Day 12 - storm approaching over the Manning Valley this afternoon. Temperature dropped from 43C (109F) to 26C (79F) in less than an hour! As well, we got a much-needed downpour!
Day 11 - one of our small green tree frogs - we have three different sizes here and you will see all them probably several times as I love frogs!
Day 10 - a closeup of a dragonfly
Day 9 - My husband Peter sitting at the base of a beautiful old fig tree - I just love the root system and the trunk
Great tree!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous detail, I love dragonflies!
ReplyDeleteI do too Thea
DeleteGreat closeup of the dragonfly - I actually got some last summer for the first time. One of the nice things about winter - no insects now. :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks Mark
DeleteVery dramatic sky - glad to hear you cooled off a bit and got some rain. :-)
ReplyDeleteIt was an amazing sky, and the rain was very welcome. Had another 25mm (1 inch) last night as well, which means our tanks are nearly full again. We are just on tank water here so rain is always welcome!
DeleteTank water is a way of life in NYC where if you look up at any tall building you will see our iconic wooden water tanks. It's not rainwater though - rather water from the NYC water system that is pumped up there so that gravity can feed the buildings' residents/occupants.
DeleteLOVE the lavender!!
ReplyDeleteAnd you and Krista are on the same wavelength with the spider webs! :)
I love spiderweb shots - but have never gotten one that I am really happy with. Going to keep trying though.
ReplyDeleteAnd don't have many kangaroo shots ...
Beautiful Aussie pics! The stormy sky looked fantastic!
ReplyDeleteThanks Wendy!
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