Ragtag Daily Prompt Tuesday: Movie
Dr K wants to know who is in your movie? Lights, camera and action!
Which movies do I choose? Roll the credits
One night in the chook house
One night in the chook house Part 2
Category: durranbah
Communicate with the world
Beckys square photo challenge: Light
Yes. Communicate withe world. On Monday the satellite that beams what I do around the world had a bit of a conniption and I was left high and dry without my computer. All of my “light” photos are stored ready to use. This led to my silence over the past days, so perhaps I have a bit of catch up to do. So today I thought I would show you my part of the communication process.
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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The Hibiscus bud
I can’t fit anymore
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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Silent Sunday
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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
