Ragtag Daily Prompt Monday: Golden

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Hammad’s Weekend Sky #91
The morning skies have been alternately sunny and cloudy of late. This morning is the full cloud grey sky with drizzling rain at times but not when I took these photos. I was awoken by rain during the night so this scrolling song came to mind
It’s a steel blue/grey sky this morning
This is the view where the sun is sometimes on the tree tops hence a lighter sky from this view
I read wormies – Out of the Cave poem the biggest death and I was inspired to try and find my sunset photo of
“imagine the sun
yolk in shades of bursting
fading crimson
in a cinderblock sky”
This is the untouched image. Can you imagine what the weather was like that day?
Hammad’s Weekend Sky #90
More of the same, blue skies with puffs of clouds. Today is going to be a warm one in the mid 30’sC.
The Sun wasn’t quite high enough this morning to get into the photo.
A closer view of those puffy clouds
The Sun is well and truly washing to clouds in sunlight.
Hammad’s Weekend Sky #89
The morning photos from my usual spot. A bit of light cloud in an otherwise blue sunny sky.
I was wondering if these photos are becoming a bit boring as sometimes it seems that they photos seem the same each time, unless I am awake early enough to get a colourful sunrise.
Do you think I should change my direction for my photos from the small deck into something more interesting?
While writing, this song came to mind. Renée Geyer was a most wonderful Australian singer. Unfortunately Renee died in January this year so please enjoy this song.
Light cloud drifting across the sky. The sun is still low among the trees
The sunshine filled Eucalypts are reaching for the clouds
Hammad’s Weekend Sky #88
I am being more haphazard in my taking photos from the small deck. This morning I should have taken the early morning yellow sky but didn’t think until I saw Hammad had posted this morning (my time)
The sun is just through the trees with spreading clouds. As I write the cloud cover is almost 80%
As the rising sun colours the Eucalypts against a blue sky. This blue has now disappeared. The clouds moved in very quickly. I hope it may rain as the garden needs a good soak
Hammad’s Weekend Sky #87
This is a mixed bag again. I actually found some Weekend Sky photos from the 22nd January which I didn’t include in my last weekend sky post. These are the first two. The clouds cleared after a while to a hot day and storm in the afternoon.
Looking to the north, the blue skies were coming
Now to this mornings sky from the small deck. I was up late enough for the sun to be peeking above the horizon and trees. A bit of blue sky and wispy clouds
To the north, the clouds were drifting so I expect another hot sunny day is in the offering.
I went into the garden to see if there was anything else happening. This is the sky about three minutes later. I don’t know if it’s going to be a rainy day or a hot sunny one. All I know is that it is warm and humid already.
Welcome to a new year.
Again another quiet be at home mostly month. The weather started to turn warm to hot signalling that Summer is here. The hot days were just that so time was spent inside in the middle of the day.
Towards the end of the month, the rains came with hot days and afternoon storms, some of which were doozies. Thunder, house shaking a couple of times when the storm was directly over head, not much lightning and torrential rain. So much so that the gutters couldn’t hold the water and there were curtains of water around the house!
OK It’s time to have a look at what I found in January. There were a couple of exciting moments as you’ll see so away we go.
This is your scrolling song which is perfect for the rain I have had so far this month.
The frogs have been loving the rain as well. This Australian Green Tree Frog could have been living in the downpipe and was washed out with the force of the water. Their croaking has been so loud as it echos in the downpipes. They love the rain and that’s when they do their best croaking.
A regular on the verandah, a Garden Skink, who investigates every morning to see if a snack arrived over night
One of the annoying Brush-tailed Possums who clomp around the roof, thump onto the verandah and are generally noisy during the night. I think this female has a young one ready to be born judging by her big belly. When the young are bigger, they ride around on Mums back.
I spotted this unusual shaped insect scurrying across the verandah. Looking at the photo, I saw that it had a spider for lunch. You can see the fangs of the spider under the insect. It was moving quite quickly dragging lunch somewhere safe to consume.
Some of you have seen this Katydid before on a Macro Monday post. The Katydid flew onto my desk one night, no I didn’t jump, why would you ask! It was quite happy for a few snaps until I tried to get too close. The Katydid has already been in battle with a Huntsman Spider or one of the Velvet Geckos that live inside my home.
I chose two views from the kitchen window, the first is a young female who has just arrived as a garden visitor
And the other is the big young male who has staked my garden out as part of his territory
This is the first of the excitement photos. My old mate who lived down the road, gave me a whole lot of plants from his garden before he went into care. This is the first time this lily had flowered. Isn’t it fabulous.
All of the Hibiscus plants are flowering, the pinks and reds and this one is a favourite. It is in a neglected part of the garden (which is the next garden project area) but still has hung on for a very long time. The pink in the centre wrapped in a mass of messy orange petals.
The Ornamental Ginger plants are flowering through the garden giving off a wonderful scent at night that mingles with the Murraya and Frangipanni flowers perfumes.
The big black Orchard Swallowtail Butterflies have been in the garden for a while but in January several arrive and were flitting around the garden. The lone male had company. When I took this photo, there were five butterflies on the Pentas bush.
Thornbills are a regular around the bush and garden. A Buff-rumped Thornbill watched me closely as I walked around the garden.
For a while it seemed like there was a lack of small birds in the garden again. The Currawongs had gone for Summer but suddenly there were lots of small birds hopping around the garden again. A family, a male and five or six females or juvenile Red-Backed Fairy Wrens came looking for grass seeds.
Scarlet Honeyeaters are around most of the time. They are quite small and a flash of a red jewel zooming through the garden is a wonderful sight.
Yellow-faced Honeyeaters have established the garden as their territory but are always bullied by the bigger Friarbirds or Blue-faced Honeyeaters.
Just thought I’d drop in to see if you are still with us.
A Rainbow Lorikeet examines the verandah in case something important may be happening.
The next bit of excitement was that a pair of Brown Goshawks came for a week or so to see what happens at my place. This is a reason for a lack of small birds around the garden I think.
This photo is heavily edited as the Brown Goshawk was in shadow so I had to lighten and correct.
I always knew where they were in the garden because the pair chatted, probably letting each other know where I was in the garden. I thought they may have nested nearby but I haven’t seen them for over a week now.
Another reason the Goshawks may have moved on is the resident Square-tailed Kites may have encouraged them to move on. The Kites have been patrolling the area a lot more so maybe they have young in the nest.
As the Square-tailed Kites effortlessly soar and glide over head, the Noisy Friarbirds who also have lots of nests around at the moment, try to scare the Kites away with lots of squawking and dive bombing the kites if the get too close to the tree tops.
This Noisy Friarbird decided it was time to get out of there real fast. One of the perils of pissing off a Kite
Another Yellow-faced Honeyeater just looking cute and inquisitive
The Spangled Drongos look rather majestic as they check the garden for a snack
Not happy about a photo being taken at bath time. I get “that look” from a Scarlet Honeyeater.
I must tell you that no bird was killed from the incident with the sun room window. It must have been a shock for the poor bird. I didn’t hear anything so I may not have been at home or elsewhere in the garden or shed. There wasn’t a hurt, injured or dead bird in the garden which surprised me
When the storms arrived they were good ones. This storm also was very windy bringing tree down some across the roads to get to the highway as well as across the highway.
I had to go to town and I could just squeeze past the downed trees. On the way home, the bloke next door was finishing cutting the trees off the road. I was thinking I would have to do it when I got home and the day was hot and muggy.
After the storm has passed from over head, the sunset gave the storm clouds a lovely tinting
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Hammad’s Weekend Sky #86
Last weekend the sky had a wonderful morning display. I just had to take those photos for Weekend Sky but didn’t post them. The morning sky also held a surprise as well.
21 January skies
It is hard to get the full effect of the sunrise with it’s blazing yellow sun
While to the north, the sun is just reaching the tops of the Eucalypts and our Moon was still shining bright. This photo is from the old little camera which is not being used for morning sky photos any more but still is the small pocket sized camera I will use for my emergency camera if out and about and my main cameras don’t function as I would like.
These are this mornings photos. I was awake about an hour after sunrise this morning. After wild storms over the past few days, the blue morning skies are back, heralding more hot days with afternoon storms.
The northern sky, the sun fully lighting the Eucalypts and a wisp of cloud
Here is the sky on the 26th at around 5pm just before the wild wind and rain arrived
and coloured tinged clouds at sunset
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