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From here and back

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Terri’s Sunday Stills: Views from the Road

A quick trip around the neighbourhood plus a few extras, items of interest perhaps

I know it seems like a long way but it won’t take long to get around, most of the day probably.

Further along is the little bridge that has taken lots of punishment over the years. Huge trucks go across it, it goes well under water in a flood and big holes “grow” either side so don’t whizz down the hill.

Yes there may be cattle ahead as a lot of you would know. Luckily they grow up on the roadside and are car smart. Sometimes a belligerent cow will just stand until she is ready to move sometimes driving closer works other times you might get a kick or a spin around and glare before humphing off the road.

Mostly they are nice – I know a gratuitous cow picture

Of course if you have cattle, you have a set of ramps to help load the cattle onto or off a truck

This is where we deviate to a few kilometers away. Every now and then, memorials appear for all sorts of reasons. Older ones such as this one marking the possible whereabouts of the graves of James Stocks two wives who died within four years of each other in the 1870’s
Many of the newer memorials are at the scene of a motor vehicle accidents now.

At the top of the range above my place in the afternoon

The road back home. This is an old photo when the Wattles are flowering in August. My place is on the left, drive under the Lemon Scented Tea Trees

Last on the Card – February 2023

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Last Photo for February 2023

Everyone who contributes their good and not so good photos has fun I hope and thanks to those being brave enough to show everyone your last photo for the month in its naked glory.
It doesn’t have to be on the very last day of the month if you didn’t take any photos. Maybe it was earlier in the month when the last photo was taken. Last month someone didn’t take any photos after the 19th so that was the Last Photo

So let’s see what you have for February 2023

The rules are simple:
1. Post the last photo on your SD card or last photo on your phone for the 28th February or whenever your last photo was taken.
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. Use the tags The Last Photo and #LastOnTheCard

Here’s mine.

From my Samsung Galaxy S9

From my Canon PowerShot SX70HS

From my Canon EOS 1300D

Looking back

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Lens-Artists Challenge #230: Last Chance

I was going to do a photo a month for the year but that was boring trying to find something interesting that I hadn’t already posted. I some of the folders I flicked through were some that were blog resized and named. It looks like I intended to do something with them but they somehow became lost some how.

I’ll start with a few things I found in my garden.

Perhaps a better photo of a Tufted Honeyeater was posted. This one actually shows the yellow tuft on the neck feathers

I remember the next two. I was going to do a post showing the difference of Line Blue butterflies.
The first photo shows how they were named Line Blue

But on the outside they have intricate patterns and shapes that make it so hard to ID what actual Line Blue Butterfly it is.
The Line Blues are about 10mm in length

A Fuscous Honeyeater contorting to get a drink from a Pink Pentas flower. Probably wasn’t used as some people object to birds bums.

and why wouldn’t I have found a reason to post a red leaf?

It looks like Tiny the King Parrot wants us to go outside for a while. This is one of his “Look at me, aren’t I cute” looks as he poses outside of my office window

Another photo ready to go but didn’t get anywhere. At least it is bright enough to start the day and have a look at what’s to come.

The Intermediate Egret coming into land among the old oyster racks

Livin’ the dream on the Queenlands Gold Coast

Heading back home here is an old wagon at the front entrance of a neighbours. I really like this photo and not sure why it was never used. The stalks of Barbed Wire Grass and seed heads add to the rural feel I think

Love seeing an afternoon Full Moon against a blue sky. Another unused photo together with the last photo below

Heading up the road, that farm has a variety of stock. I love Belties (Belted Galloways) as much as I like coos.
This one was a long way down the hillside and the focus wasn’t sharp. It did have a certain feel so I couldn’t help but play around a little

Later in the night Our Moon was further along the sky so a close up against a black sky can sometimes show some of the craters of the rocky moonscape

I did have to restrict my self as I wanted to post so much more but aimed for a variety where some photos may have a lot more going on. Like bird or insect photos usually involve a flower.

I am only an occasional Lens-Artists poster but have fun when the theme strikes a chord. I am looking forward for our Donna to start posting some wonderful prompts

No apples, but red

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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Apple Red Colours

I had to go to town early this morning so I had a chance for a quick walk around after having breakfast. Keeping my eyes out for some apple reds The first thing I saw was this car parked across the road from the cafe. There three other red cars in the street but this one had a red that was hard to replicate with a camera.

Further down the street, on the way back to pick up my car, I saw the part of a street that has Poinciana trees instead of the usual Jacarandas. This splash of red just after the purple was delightful to see.

The worse thing was I went into the Green Grocers but didn’t take a camera.Didn’t even think of red apples either 🙄🤪