
Also for Pull Up a Seat Photo Challenge
This is a Xerochrysum viscosum variety, a Summer flowering daisy. It is also known as Sticky Everlasting, Yellow Paper Daisy, Shiny Everlasting or Golden Everlasting Daisy.
Waiting to greet the day.
Open and feeling good
Starting to feel its age
Closing to protect the seeds and changing colour
It is finally over
Cee’s FOTD
Debbie’s One Word Sunday: Weather
Today I went for a drive up the Gibraltar Range as there are wild flowers growing at the moment. Of course a drive into the mountains wouldn’t be the same without a stop off at my favourite place, Raspberry Lookout.
This is what you can usually see when you stop at Raspberry Lookout
Today it was like this
I did mention wildflowers didn’t I? There were daisies and other flowers just on the roadside.
As well as Christmas Bells, the ones I had come to see.
These are for Cee’s FOTD
I don’t know if this satisfies Marsha’s and Cee’s PPAC I found it in the very old tree in a notch they cut out to insert planks to get higher when felling a tree many many years ago
I bet you wondered where all this was going didn’t you? Well this is all part of the Lens-Artists Challenge #181: Double Dipping
But did you notice that some of the photos were square so get prepared for Becky’s Square Photo Challenge February: Odd
Becky’s Square Photo Challenge: Past Squares
The Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge: Quiet Places
The Ragtag Daily Prompt Wednesday: Mist
I love a
misty morning
everything’s still
a hush broken
Kookaburra
a hush broken
nothing’s still
misty morning
I love
A close up of the tree in the middle of the above photo
Heading up the Gibraltar Range from my place to the Raspberry Lookout
Getting to my quiet place to sit for a bit while…….
…….the mist sits in the valleys
Or just be at my place in my other quiet places
Life in Colour September: Gold
On my last gold photo I didn’t let you know that it was a golden sunrise. I live on the east coast of Australia so a lot of my sunrise photos are over the sea. My sunsets are mainly with a mountainous backdrop.
To balance my gold photos, this time here is a sunset taken yesterday afternoon on my way home
My last gold song which has been stuck in my head all day
Aletta from nowathome nominated me for this weekly photo challenge
Ragtag Daily Prompt Saturday: Vista
Feel free to join in this photo challenge (everyone is welcome). Show your best photos, but let’s make this tricky to guess where the photos are taken.
If you participate in this photo challenge, this is what you need to do:
My favourite vista
The Friendly Friday Blog Challenge: Mountain Top
I have a selection of mountain tops as well as a few views I hope you’ll enjoy. One of my favourite Australian mountain songs from a while ago to accompany your scroll among my mountain tops.
“You want me to be a mountain
I’d rather be a river
Water flow can wash a hill away
You wanted me to fly
I want to get high
How else am I gonna see what I want to see?”
Mt Vesuvius – Wollumbin (Mt Warning) distant view and closer – The Gibraltar Range near my place in the mist – The Dalmatians – view from the Raspberry Lookout on a stormy day – sunset over the mountain top
Terri’s Sunday Stills: Your Favourite #Landscape
I took me a while to think of my favourite landscape. But really it is just up the road a ways from my place. We often go, sit with perhaps a picnic lunch or just tea and biscuits.
I think I have a few photos over the years of Raspberry Lookout in the Gibraltar Ranges National Park
Most times I just have one photo per word for Lost in Translations Pick a Word. This time I have a few more for the September Pick a Word and perhaps using my artistic licence for the matching photo.
Vantage
The view from Raspberry Lookout. My property is a few hills over on the left.
In order to get a good take off, you must have a good vantage point.
Bifurcated
You can’t fence me in
Intruding
Sometimes I feel like I am intruding when photographing butterflies and spiders.
Three’s a crowd when the males chase the female Orchard Butterfly.
Two Line-blue Butterflies getting “friendly”
Yes, the Huntsman Spiders were in the dining room but I don’t think they had eating dinner on their mind.
Jagged
Once a butterfly gets old, the jagged wings are the first sign of age as on this Australian Gull Butterfly
Quayside
The yachts moored late in the afternoon after sailing from Grafton to Ulmarra.
Quayside on the Great Canal, Venice
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