TODAY'S FLOWERS ~ 30 Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

The cycle of life.... when one fades, another
flowers and an understudy waits in the wings.

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Just one today, there were just too many to choose from!

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Thanks to Luiz Santilly Jr. for starting this meme, and to

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SkyWatch ~ 49 Clouds, just Clouds...

A couple of days ago we walked to the park to check
on the water level in the dam, when I saw these clouds.

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They kept changing so rapidly that I had to snap

as we went along.

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These photos are not adjusted nor did I use any filter,

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the sky really was such a deep blue. On our way

back across the paddock, some late afternoon

colour crept up from behind the hill

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but back in the garden it was quite different, with

the sky assuming a sunny summer quality and

making a perfect foil for one of my early spring roses.

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Thank you Klaus et al for hosting this meme.

Nature Notes ~ 2 Domestic Ducks

Some new arrivals in the poultry yard have exhibited

some interesting behaviours.

We lost our drake so two more ducks entered our
lives because our g-daughters could not resist them
and of course a drake to keep them happy.
















One of the new ducks herded the drake almost
immediately indoors hoping for a little privacy. As
soon as the other new duck twigged, in she went
chasing both of them out again and displaying quite
a bit of jealousy.
















After we gave up watching, they must have worked
their troubles out or he at least had understood what was
expected of him. When my daughter brought up a bowl
of 14 duck eggs it was patently obvious how ducks had
come by their name...They are just sooo pro-duck-tive!

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Spring has sprung and bigamy is in bloom.
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Watery Wednesday 16 & Bird Photography Weekly - 24

A little waterfall no more than 4' high in a little
Japanese garden.



An elegant Egret soaring among the clouds.



A wealth of liquid diamonds.....if only....



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MY WORLD ~ 41 Pildappa Rock, Eyre Peninsula

15km north of Minnipa in the Eyre Peninsula lies
this giant granite turtle.




The countryside is arid with sparse vegetation and
from here it does not look particularly preposessing.





Come a little closer and it has a way of growing on you.
It was not easy to find a spot to get onto the rock itself
without a ladder because of the eroded layer at ground
level.

A you can see, we did manage it and this granite

boulder turnes out to be quite extensive. There are

a number of these outcrops in this otherwise flat plain.
I put this shot in for a measure of scale, the Prof in

the distance is 6'2" tall and that is only a part of the

rock showing.

On the horizon you can see the Gawler Ranges.

Here again the Prof's legs are an indicator for the size

of the moulins some of which still held water from the

rain some days previously.

A large part of the top of the rock was like a pock marked
lunar landscape.

All this is still part of one single rock. Frost has broken

layers off the top which look small at a distance but in

reality are anything but.
There are a number of fingers of rock stretching into

the landscape

and some bright spark has at some time dumped his

garden waste there thinking nothing of it and certainly
not expecting the hardy plants to take root and create
a garden of exotic species here in the wildernes.

It you ENLARGE, you will see the Geraniums.

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TODAY'S FLOWERS ~ 29 Calla Lilies

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Calla Lilies that I planted on the overflow depression
from one of our dams, just a tiny corm from our mountain
garden poked into the side of a paddock, never watered
or tended but with a lot of love and hope lavished upon it.



This year it has prospered into a real clump and is
a joy to behold.



Calla Lilies are survivors, like me. When the old
homesteads have long ago crumbled back into rubble,
they still grow along the winter creek bed in this dry
country, a reminder of what once was, a greeting from
beyond the grave.

Their pristine white beauty telling the discerning of times
of yore and gladdening the eye of the passer by.



This heart I dedicate to all flower lovers everywhere.





To call them Lilies is a misnoma since they are grown
from corms not bulbs, but somehow the appellation has
stuck in the English vernacular.

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SkyWatch ~ 48 Melbourne and Vicinity

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Coming into Melbourne, Victoria from the east, the sky
looked threatening as I wielded my camera while the
Prof. drove at a steady 110kph .



Getting out of the car at my sister's, the sun lent a
golden glow to the houses on the other side of the road.



The dark clouds and slanting light brought out the
red in the recently cut Eucalyptus branch seen from
our bedroom window.



Heading home along the Western Highway next day,
we passed Ballarat and caught a glimpse of the rainbow



over the completely dried out Lake Burrumbeet. Although
the water levels have often fluctuated in this lake, in our
40 years of driving past it and having picnics there, we
have never seen it in this dessicated state before.



This last drought was definitely no joke.

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