postaday – bushboys world

Awe in flying

Published on March 23, 2020 by bushboy9 Comments

The Photo a Week Challenge: Up In The Air
Pic and Word Challenge: Awe #224

So at ease
soaring above
watching in awe
watching with love
Sometimes alone
sometimes in threes
freed from the ground
freed from the trees

Large in the sky
spreading of wings
riding aloft
this one not sings

Large is impressive
filling the sky
but small is too
this butterfly

Light the night

Published on February 28, 2020 by bushboy8 Comments

Nancy’s Photo a Week Challenge: Light the Night

Natural light or man made light? You can be the judge.

Our Moon gives a lovely light at night

A bit of both
Fire lights the night
A party boat glows on the bay
A man, a torch and a Brush-tailed Possum
Big Ben has its own lights
A man, a car light and an owl
A man. a woman, a torch and a Moon Flower

Old tools

Published on February 25, 2020 by bushboy2 Comments

Nancy’s Photo a Week Challenge: Over One Hundred Years Old

I found these old stone tools on my place a few years ago. I bet the bloke who lost them was quite annoyed. My place is part of a very large property that was settled by white fellas over one hundred years ago and has been subdivided over the years
The underside of the stone axe and the chipping rock.
This stone is used to sharpen the stone axe
The stone axe. The most amazing thing is the axe fits snugly into my hand.

Minimalism

Published on February 20, 2020February 19, 2020 by bushboy9 Comments

The CitySonnet Photo a Day Challenge 20 Feb: Minimalism

In the garden

Published on February 19, 2020February 19, 2020 by bushboy1 Comment

The CitySonnet February Photo a Day Challenge February 19: Monochrome

Faces

Published on February 4, 2020February 4, 2020 by bushboy8 Comments

The February Photo a Day Challenge 4th: Faces

I see faces almost everywhere
The unfortunately named Jap Pumpkin
“It may just be an old wives’ tale, but it is said that Jap pumpkin derived its name from growers who weren’t sure of how to market it, so they chose the acronym of Just Another Pumpkin!”

The skull like tree

The goofiest slippers ever
This has to be the smuggest tree
Are you as shocked as this oil burner at the number of faces I have found?

The Mauritius hemp plant

Published on January 25, 2020 by bushboy2 Comments

Nancy’s Photo a Week Challenge: Three Angles

Work

Published on January 17, 2020January 17, 2020 by bushboy6 Comments

The word prompt from Nancy for Photo for the Week Challenge: Work

One of the main bits of work I have to do around here is cutting and getting firewood for Winter. Yes, it does get rather hot but over Winter here in the foothills, the nights can get quite cool. Sometimes this can be quite a challenge or a quite peaceful way to spend a Winters day.
Come with me and help out with a bit of work.

Quite often I would start the chainsaw and the Pied Butcherbirds would appear

After a bit of cutting and time to have a rest, the Butcherbirds would swoop in and check out the log.
Synchronised bug hunting
Always on the look out making sure I had a longer rest than necessary. Are you ready to go again?
Back at home time to unload the cut rounds and start splitting the wood for the fire. Of course the sound of wood being split attracts the chooks who come looking for snacks. Standing on the chopping block is one way of delaying the work that has to be done.
What are they looking for? Most times it might be white ants which chooks love or sometimes it could be a Centipede hiding in the crevices in the wood.
A ute load of wood split and ready for the Winters fire.