How good was last months lot of photos. Let’s do it again. I was lucky to be in a another great spot for my last photo.
The rules are simple: 1. Post the last photo on your SD card or last photo on your phone for the 31st May. 2. No editing – who cares if it is out of focus, not framed as you would like or the subject matter didn’t cooperate. 3. You don’t have to have any explanations, just the photo will do 4. Create a Pingback to this post or link in the comments 5. Tag “The Last Photo”
OK. This is the first go at using the editor for my monthly wrap-up. I usually write about the photos before the image and now I may have to use captions. I reckon you should know what the image is before you see it not after, especially for those who follow my blog and are a bit “wary” of my spiders and snakes. I like to put in a warning. Loading the images individually would solve this but it may be time consuming, we’ll see anyway.
May was the last of Autumn and I did get out and about as this is a lovely time of year here, not too hot and the Winters chill hasn’t fully arrived. Many flowers are blooming and some on the wane. There are the usual birds still around and haven’t departed for warming climates and the Winter birds are yet to arrive.
Maybe I should start with the misty mornings that are part of the landscape.
I bet you are wondering about Joey and how he’s been getting on, so let’s visit him and Mum first on a wet morning.
There is also another new Joey in the garden
The birds – Tiny, the King Parrot, was still around in May with his partner
A Peaceful Dove having a stretchThe Cuban Royal Palms at my Besties are flowering and the Rainbow Lorikeets a loving the flowersThe Grey Shrike Thrush has a lovely song and sings every morning in the garden. Here on the verandah rail making sure I am up and aboutSometimes Kookaburras fluff up and seem quite fatWhite-throated Treecreepers are always around hopping up and down the trees looking for insects under the barkThe berries almost match the Satin Bowerbirds eye colourHis Bower is still going and looks quite well constructed. I hope the female Bowerbirds like his effortsSometimes you have to get into difficult positions to get a snack. A Blue-faced Honeyeater hanging onGoing for our morning walk at my Besties, there are lots of birds along the roadside vegetation. Red-backed Wrens flashing about attract my attentionThe Golden Whistlers are around still and the female is often in the gardenThe Eastern Yellow Robin is a frequent visitor to the garden. One of my favourite birdsThe first of the Winter visitors, the Eastern Spinebill has arrivedCheeky Eastern Rosellas are in my besties garden chatting away in the treesAnother of the birds on our walk is Chestnut-breasted Mannikins. This one is eyeing off the seeds for breakfastThe latest ones to be on the edge of the road are Double Barred Finches. These two are deep in conversationIt was a surprise to see a White-breasted Sea Eagle on the tree. He kept a wary eye on us as we walked along the roadThe Magpie was having a lovely song on a tree top in Tenterfield when we were there. The Magpie Lark, or Pee Wee didn’t seem to enjoy the song as much as us
The insects are slowing down although there are still some Butterflies about. A selection from my place and my Besties
A Blue Tiger Butterfly finding a comfortable spot on the Bottlebrush flowerScarlet Jezebels are everywhere in May A small spiders web glistened in the sunlightA St Andrews Cross Spider with a snack and only half of the cross completed on the webThe Orchard Swallowtail Butterflies caterpillar on the Lemon Tree. They love citrus leavesA Common Crow having a restwhile this Common crow had found the Bottlebrush flowers. The bees didn’t like sharing and soon buzzed off the butterflyI think this may be a Bee Fly on one of the last Zinnia flowers of MayA Butterfly playing peek-a-boo over a Frangipanni leaf in the garden
Speaking of flowers, I did manage to capture a couple of blooms in my Besties garden as there was a bit more rain at her place than at mine. I don’t have many flowers in my garden.
I have never had a Coleus flower before. An interesting flowerThe Begonia has been flowering ever since I bought it home.The Honey Gem Grevillea with rain drops that looked like diamonds
Here is the random images found while in Tenterfield, a town about 150kms from my place in the tablelands.
Love this old house. Someone actually still lives in thereNo matter how hard I pushed……Looking back at Tenterfield on the way home
Sometimes Red-necked Wallabies are quite dainty eaters
I love finding Koalas when we go for a walk. This Koala did wake up and wonder what we were doing chatting away while it was trying to sleep
The Sunset on the way home from Tenterfield was rather special. Amazing reds and oranges. This was the afternoon I captured the Raven at sunset one of my favourite photos for May
Our Moon is up so I better get going.
Hope you enjoyed a stroll through my May. Did you have a favourite image? This did take a bit longer than usual and I couldn’t jump around with the images as it was easier to do them in groups. Was the setting out ok and did it flow well enough for you? Thanks for the visit and see you again soon.
Pull up a seat take a load off your feet Sit for a while let’s have a smile We need to chat about this and that Sit here, sit there there are benches everywhere Here’s a few but not one pew some of wood, some of stone when we sit we’re never alone.
I have never posted from my own Ragtag prompt before. Is that allowed?? The trees here after the devastating fire are doing the most unusual things. I found this tree on my place, a Grey Gum or Grey Box I think whose bark had sheeted off and landed almost like wings.
An Aussie song that has no association with the photo……please enjoy
The screen door is a reclaimed part of my childhood. No longer used in the family home it made its way here. The screen door was used on the first “house” I built. It made the journey to this house, albeit with a few dodgy repairs, and was on the front door until it started to show signs of wear.
Relegated to a shed and neglected. I was always going to fix that screen door up one day. Years passed and the lack of a good work space where things could get started and a place where the job could sit if it needed time for repairs to set.
The screen door made its way to the shed in a very sorry state
Some of the timber surrounds that held the screen wire in place were missing and some were broken and all of them were unusable. The hinges were…
