The Ragtag Daily Prompt Sunday: Can’t
Sometimes you just grow too big and can’t fit in where you want to anymore
Sometimes a Mothers comfort is all you need even if you can’t fit
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Curve
Debbies One Word Sunday: Curve
So many curves in this world. I love the curve of a Roosters tail
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Stoplight in the rain
Beckys square photo challenge: Light
Come on over to Becky’s and join in the fun
Here’s the rule:
All you really need remember about this photographic challenge is that a square is a rectangle with four equal sides!
Yes the photo format is Square. Look on your camera setting before you get totally inspired and set it to 1:1 There you have it Square Format. If you forget crop your image to Square
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Silent Sunday
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Leading lines
The Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #80: Leading Lines
Down the hallway
To the windows
Follow the bicyclist
Down the road
Up and down the road
On the train to nowhere
Over the bridge
Over the pond
Up the stairs
Down the stairs
Leading you along the beach
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Unusual foam
The Weekly Photo Challenge: Unusual
After a prolonged dry spell, along comes the rain. Nothing unusual I hear you say about that. How about trees exuding foam!
or foam at the beach after a flood
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Smoking: a thing of the past
Debbies Six Word Saturday
The fire and smoking log are no more
For those who haven’t been following my Six Word Saturday saga, here is a recap
Fifteen days later I’m still smoking
The fire’s smoke darken the sky
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House lights
Beckys square photo challenge: Light
Come on over to Becky’s and join in the fun
Here’s the rule:
All you really need remember about this photographic challenge is that a square is a rectangle with four equal sides!
Yes the photo format is Square. Look on your camera setting before you get totally inspired and set it to 1:1 There you have it Square Format. If you forget crop your image to Square
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Changes in a day
This is not the usual post over the past year or so from me bemoaning how dry it is, fires have totally burnt my place, isn’t it hot for this time of year or my garden is dying.
No it’s not!!!
Prompted by a Ragtag Daily Prompt Friday: Wonderland
This is about this wonderland called Australia, my home and place I love. Let me preface the next few words and photos with the second stanza of a famous Australian poem – My Country by Dorethea Mackellar
“I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of drought and flooding rains,
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel sea,
Her beauty and her terror –
The wide brown land for me.”
These words are so apt for me at the moment as it is raining. Not just raining but actual downpours of wonderful wonderful rain. Over the past two days I have measured one hundred mls of rain falling on my blacked landscape. The dry parched earth is a tumult of rushing water filling dams and water tanks. I am sure you would like to see a bit. I ventured out to get a few images for you, juggling an umbrella and my camera in the pouring rain
Look puddles
The grass has started to sprout already. My place is going from brown to green
I can never tire of watching water flow into my water tanks or hearing the rain on the roof and gurgling down the water pipes and into the water tank
One amazing phenomena of the eucalyptus trees foaming.
“Essentially what’s happening is as rain falls on trees it’s dissolving chemicals off the leaves and bark and the compounds the trees produce act as a natural soap,” he said.
“Because of it acting like a detergent, water will then basically foam up as it’s running down the tree trunk.”
Mr Warren said the chemicals were produced mostly by eucalyptus trees to defend themselves against microbes and herbivores.
“You see the foaming much more after a dry spell because it gives the chemicals time to accumulate on the leaves,” he said.
“It’s quite a common phenomenon but it’s really spectacular.””
The foam is accumulating at the base of the Spotted Gums as they have a smooth bark
At this time of year the Spotted Gums drop their bark revealing many colours and textures
Yes that’s water in the background rushing down the gully to the big dam. Usually I cannot see this water only hear it as the vegetation covers the landscape
Remember that burning log I kept going on about? This is water flowing past going into the dam I use for around the house.
Here is the dam filling. That small patch of lillies was the size of the water in the dam three days ago
As you may have guessed I am one very happy person. I may get cut off from going to town due to localised flooding but I have enough to sustain me for quite a while.
This has taken a while to write as my satellite connection kept dropping out due to the heavy rain
Also LPM Photo Adventures: Rural Life
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Work
The word prompt from Nancy for Photo for the Week Challenge: Work
One of the main bits of work I have to do around here is cutting and getting firewood for Winter. Yes, it does get rather hot but over Winter here in the foothills, the nights can get quite cool. Sometimes this can be quite a challenge or a quite peaceful way to spend a Winters day.
Come with me and help out with a bit of work.
Quite often I would start the chainsaw and the Pied Butcherbirds would appear
After a bit of cutting and time to have a rest, the Butcherbirds would swoop in and check out the log.
Synchronised bug hunting
Always on the look out making sure I had a longer rest than necessary. Are you ready to go again?
Back at home time to unload the cut rounds and start splitting the wood for the fire. Of course the sound of wood being split attracts the chooks who come looking for snacks. Standing on the chopping block is one way of delaying the work that has to be done.
What are they looking for? Most times it might be white ants which chooks love or sometimes it could be a Centipede hiding in the crevices in the wood. 
A ute load of wood split and ready for the Winters fire.
