MY WORLD ~ Back to the Ranges

I know I have posted about this remarkable part of South

Australia before but this is an area I love so much that I

just could not help showing you a little more.

The Ranges are a National Heritage area, a National Park

where the 'dreamtime' sings to you and draws you into the

landscape. Painters are mesmerised by the beauty of the

light and intricacy of the rock formations and those who

seek solace for the sole just soak it up through every pore.

Hills photographed while driving by and as you snap, suddenly

you see a patch of brilliant colour.

Whether you have time or not, you stop and get out of your

car for a closer look. Snap a few dozen photos and turn back

to be faced with a flowering bush perhaps not quite as stunning

as the Sturt Desert Peas, but certainly a stunner in it's own right.

For the purists among the artist community there is gloriously

colourful ochre right on the roadside. One is not supposed to

plunder this riches but how can one resist when it is washing

away before your eyes.

Red ochre above and yellow below. There was white, deep

yellow and orange to be found here and there as well.

Changing light and little birds capture you attention

and the ever present red soil one can just never get enough of.

Beat this for a colour contrast!

All photos enlarge if you want to be sucked into the magic.

Enlarge at least the first one to see the folding of the mountainsides.

Thanks as always to the MY WORLD Team for hosting this meme.