Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge October: Close Up or Macro
A ferocious Grasshopper defends the garbage bin
An Orchard Swallowtail Butterfly enjoys a sip of nectar
Getting in close to a Firesprite Grevillea flower
A few macros
Tag: grevillea
Around here
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Walk 50 steps or less and take a new photo(s)
I walked out of my front door. I have a few ways to walk fifty steps so I made the decision to go up both directions of the driveway. First I went up the left hand side driveway. I didn’t know what I would find and luckily there were these wood fungi.
Fifty steps up the right hand side of the driveway are Grevilleas which are in flower
Opposite the Grevillea flowers are the Ivory Curl trees and they have finished flowering but now they have these lovely seed pods
Going down the path towards the back of my house is the shade house and my Begonias are flowering
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Macro Monday – 18 July 2022
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It’s mine
Debbie’s One Word Sunday: Duel
Sometimes not is all good fun and friendliness in the garden. One day I heard a bit of a ruckus outside and found that there was a disagreement of the ownership of the Grevillea in the garden.
Instead of my usual photos, here is something a bit different. No one was seriously hurt making this video. Lots of noise and posturing.
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Robins in the garden
Todays Prompt: Robin
How could I not post and share with a prompt like this
Here is a female Eastern Yellow Robin.
The male Eastern Yellow Robins are a bit more colourful
The little Rose Robins are a treat to see
And for something completely different a Robin Gordon Grevillea
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Water drops and sunset
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From small to tall
The Lens-Artists Challenge #192: Earth Story
My focus for this challenge is vegetation. From a tiny moss “forest”
to grasses that support life
with seeds and flowers
ferns providing shelter
Bottlebrush bush with flowers and food for everyone
Grevilleas giving shade and food for insects and birds
Tree Ferns who are older than dinosaurs, first plants to recover from fires – yes those fires in 2019 – as seen here. The stems of tree ferns are a miniature ecosystem, with epiphytic plants like mosses, small ferns and maybe lichens growing on them.
The first fronds that emerge are called Fiddleheads
Bigger flowering trees can be spectacular like Poinciana trees
Or Illawarra Flame Trees which stand out against the green of the bush when flowering
and then there are the towering giants in the rainforest that support all manner of life from the soil to the tree tops
Where would an Earth Story be without our wonderful plants – from the small to the tall. The featured photo is my favourite spot, Raspberry Lookout where you can sit among the trees as well as look over the valleys and the tree tops.
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In the frame
What was the last good…….
Friendly Friday Challenge: What was the last good
What was the last good……thing I ate. My breakfast a BLT on a sourdough roll and a coffee
What was the last good……song I listened to. Strange Brew by Cream
What was the last good…….nature photo I took. A Yellow-faced Honeyeater in a Yamba Gold Grevillea
What was the last good…..blog I read (and participated in) Paulas Pick a Word.
One of the first Photo Challenges I started doing way back in 2016 I think and has always been a favourite
Here is my contribution to the photo challenge
Pick a Word February 2022
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Curls in nature
Today’s Prompt #139: Curls
A Five Fingered Jack Fern curl
The curls of an Ivory Curl tree flower
Looking at the flower’s curls with a bonus bee
The Tree Fern frond getting ready to uncurl
Assorted Grevillea flower curls
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