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Re-living the Past #23 – My First Greenish Photos

Published on September 3, 2022 by bushboy28 Comments

Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge: Greenish

This selection of photos range from 2014 to 2017. Perhaps you may have seen the before. Some are favourites I re-do for challenges and some you may have not seen before.

Yes there maybe a snake involved so perhaps I’ll make it into a slideshow so those who find nature not to there liking can skip past.

1 A Green-banded Line Blue Butterfly
2 Just a stack of bottles in a restaurant
3 There’s your Green Tree Snake
4 King Parrot feathers
5 A Green Tree Frog
6 Reflections on water. One of these started my interest in doing water reflection abstracts
7 A Dragonfly

Going round the bend

Published on July 24, 2021 by bushboy20 Comments

The Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge: The Bend

Which bend are you going to take?

May as well have a singalong as we go. Everyone should know this one

It’s in the eyes

Published on June 24, 2021 by bushboy29 Comments

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge – June alphabet letter I anywhere in the words or Eyes

Here is a selection of eyes to enjoy and a song to scroll to. All the names are in the tags if you are interested.

Some are blue and some are green

Published on May 25, 2021May 24, 2021 by bushboy38 Comments

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #149: Cool Colours – Blue and Green

Let’s start with some blues

and now for a few greens

The snake and the fence

Published on March 9, 2021March 9, 2021 by bushboy44 Comments

OK. I reckon you would have guessed by the heading that there may be a photo of a snake in this post.

I do thank you for your bravery in opening the post those of you who do want to see but don’t want to see.

A bit of an idea of what you will encounter if you do travel further into my world.

Green Tree Snakes have no fangs and no venom. They are very reluctant to bite but if provoked it will rise up, inflate its throat and body, and make a stink from its anal glands – so best not to get too close.
Snake skin is not slimy. It is dry and is made up of keratin.
They are thin and about 1 to 1.5 meters long.

The one you are about to encounter I found on a neighbours fence as I was driving home. As the Green Tree Snake was on a barbed wire fence it is good to check to make sure they are OK and not hooked up on the barbs.

“Excuse me, do you need a hand over there on that barbed wire fence?”

“Who? Me?”

“Nah mate, she’ll be right. I best be off.”

“OK then, maybe I’ll see over at my place. The coming cooler weather has made the mice think it’s time to set up house somewhere warm, where there’s snacks. My pantry would be a good place to hang out for a few days if you’re headed my way.”

You can see the size of this harmless little fellow compared to the gauge of the fencing wire which is 8 gauge. Sorry I don’t know what they call that size now-a-days. Thanks for getting to the end even if fast scrolling was involved.

A lot of S’s

Published on February 21, 2021February 21, 2021 by bushboy48 Comments

The Lens-Artist Photo Challenge #136: Subjects Starting With the Letter – S

The Sun is rising so lets go with a lot of S’s to get through

Shoes

Spanish Steps in Rome

Street light in Toowoomba Australia

A Singing Currawong

Sea Eagle keeping watch

Shell on the Sand

Silver Gulls enjoying the surf

Striated Pardalote

Scaly-breasted Lorikeet enjoying a Snack

A Spangled Drongo looking Spangly

A Scarlet Jezebel Butterfly also having a Snack

Scarlet Honeyeater – a jewel in my garden

Soft Shelled Snail

A Skink about to make a Snack of a Soft Shelled Snail

Sunset

and of course the don’t look section

don’t bother going any further you lot

You were warned as per the mountains of comment I have had

Going to start now

This is a warning photo of what might be coming

Spiders Web

St Andrews Cross Spider

A natural insect control in my house, a Huntsman Spider

A harmless Green Tree Snake

See that wasn’t too bad was it. Here’s some flowers for recovery

**Silky Oak** Grevillea flowers and a **Spider Lily**

Shhh

Published on June 23, 2020 by bushboy37 Comments

The Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #102: A Quiet Moment

A bit of green

Published on March 12, 2020 by bushboy10 Comments

The Ragtag Daily Prompt Thursday: Green
Water drops and leaves
A Green-banded Line Blue Butterfly and a leaf
A Begonia leaf
A green insect and a leaf

Reflections in water – no leaf

Moss on a tree – leaves in the background

WARNING: An image that may scare shock or give some people nightmares

Look…..don’t go any further

Oh go on, you are braver that you think

Musical Interlude – not about leaves

A Green Tree Snake and a leaf

The Green Tree Snakes visit

Published on November 9, 2019 by bushboy12 Comments

I had a week and a bit of a holiday in Tasmania. I came home to find my resident Green Tree Snake had decided to shed its skin while I was away. The Lilli Pilli in the garden is having a bit of a hard time surviving the very dry conditions which has made it quite handy for a snake to divest itself of last years skin.

Green Tree Snakes are quite harmless. A little slender snake about two meters long. Their fangs are located at the back of the mouth so you have to be partially swallowed before a Green Tree Snake can inject a venom which is harmless to humans but not so to the small prey, lizards, frogs, eggs etc. They are diurnal and have large eyes. They are not always green either. Known to be olive-green to black and the flecks of blue can make a Green Tree Snake look blue. They are mostly yellow on the throat and belly but also other pale colours as well.

The early morning sunrise also helped in the making of this blog.

The wrapping around the branches. Start at the head and peel away.

The belly and tail

Aren’t the patterns in the scales lovely.
The head end showing the large eyes and lower jaw.
The sunrise made an ordinary Green Tree Snakes skin look amazing.