Once mighty (now on a stick)

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John’s Cellpic Sunday

This Autumn the Golden Orb Weavers had huge golden webs all through the garden and bush, Once the web is no longer in use, I take them down when they are where they were on the garden paths.
The very sticky golden web remains. I put this in a tree and the birds will take some for nest building

The web certainly is a Golden Thread

and for the traditionalists, the Pete Seeger original

A day in Glen Innes (museum version)

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Debbies One Word Sunday: Red

Another photo from a cold, eventually wet, day in Glen Innes. Pulling up to the Museum, History House, the skies opened and it poured. Waiting for a moment, then a lessening in intensity and the museum was the place to be while it rained.
The museum is in the very old hospital so there are various rooms of exhibits, including the photographic room where I found this woman from the past

what else but Kodachrome

Walk on (never alone)

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Beckys #SquaresRenew

Walk on
never alone
go forward
someone
is there
always with you
share the day
share
the moment
cry or
smile or
laugh
never alone
walk on.

Oh look……..yachts!!

Sculpture – ‘To Be or Not to Be’ by Keld Moseholm

No points for guessing this one, the first song that came into my head as well. Gerry and the Pacemakers – You’ll Never Walk Alone

Up there (orange stripes)

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Hammads Weekend Sky #127

One morning a few weeks ago the sky looked like it had a bit of promise, so I wandered down to the best spot I have for sunrises. It looked like being a dud but then there seemed to be a change in the air.
I am glad I stayed as the sky was phenomenal for a few short minutes. Enjoy what I saw. No playing, that wonderful sky as it was.

I wonder if this marvellous cloud structure is called.

The last of the show as I went back towards the house

The twists and turns (of art)

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Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge: Twisted

Sculptures from the annual Sculptures by the Sea exhibition in Sydney. The sculptures are along the coastal walk from Bondi to Tamarama. These photos have been taken over the years.

Have to do the Wilbury Twist

Sorry (I have to go)

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Becky’s #SquaresRenew

In the late
afternoon sun
an Australasian Pipit
on the run.
Must go
sorry to say
things to do
cannot stay.
Going forward
is the way
doing stuff
end of day.

Bye

Can’t fight the Runnin’ Blues

Sandpaper (and cauliflory)

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Becky’s #SquaresRenew

Growing straight
from the tree.
Am I burgeoning?
renewing?
Am I emerging?
The real story?
I am cauliflory.

Like all Ficus trees, Sandpaper Fig flowers ‘outside-in’ — its flowers form on the inside of its fruiting body — and can only be fertilised by a particular family of wasp. This fig species bears its fruit on its trunk as well as on its stems: a phenomenon known as “cauliflory”. Fruits ripen from January to June and may be plucked straight off the tree or collected off the ground.

The Sandpaper Figs fruit can be eaten fresh (after removing the furry skin) or dried, or cooked into cakes, pies, biscuits, jellies, jams or sauces, they have a sweet, slightly tart flavour. Mature fruits are edible but are not as palatable as immature fruits.

I couldn’t find a good fig song. As the Sandpaper Fig fruit isn’t all that tasty, I thought Sour Cherry was close enough

REF: https://tuckerbush.com.au/sandpaper-fig-ficus-coronata/