Ragtag Daily Prompt Saturday: Rainbow

Lens-Artists Challenge #195: Colourful Expressions
Is the colour you like bold or subdued. Should a photo stand out on it’s own or blend the colours? Does it sit at the front or stay in the back for someone to discover? I think I like colour. My house is colourful and my garden is colourful.
I don’t know where to start or what I am doing but lets see where this post takes you and me.
Let’s kick off with selective colour, one of my favourite effects
A fluffy Eastern Yellow Robins yellow just stands out more
Just the red on a Black Jezebel butterfly stands out
A leaf stuck on a window after a storm looked interesting but more so with selective colour I feel
Red always stands out
But can also be subtle
But is never missed
Green can be quite fluorescent
or just be a hint of colour
Some blues are hello
but also quiet
It’s a hello yellow
or try to find me in the grass
or among the trees
A pink to catch the eye
or to gently cascade
and be small and dainty
or pop out among the others
As Anne said the colours in rust are a favourite
Small and white a discovery
or be a showy presence in the garden
and have a subtle blend
with pastels and strong green to stand out
and a mix of colours that attract the eye
or add colour to a dull day
But a riot of colours that make you look more than once is always a favourite
Well that was a bit of a long post but I hope you enjoyed a bit of the colours in my life or actually in bushboys world
Welcome to a mixed bag of stuff. I have been trying to do things in between rain showers as well as days of rain. As the weather, albeit wet, has given a month of flowers and I have already posted quite a few during the month so there’s not an overload in here.
Not much news to tell so let’s get going shall we?
A January song to scroll to if you wish, a bit of Aussie music.
Where to start….how about we hop straight in with a few frogs. This little beauty, a Broad-palmed Rocket Frog, came into the house one night and was keen to explore. They move quite quickly hence being a rocket frog.
I was about to go to town when I noticed a strange lump on the top of my car. I found a Perons Tree Frog looking back at me. Goodness knows what he was doing there. Relocated to somewhere safer.
The rain during the month has had the waterfalls in the Gibraltar Ranges flowing. This is the Boundary Falls
A lot of the mornings were quite foggy. I love the trees rising out of the fog.
A while ago Graham from Hawaii posted a photo of a Japanese lantern flower, I thought the ones I had were different nut they seemed to be the same. I wonder who had a munch on this one?
There’s quite a bunch of stamens
The cap and the veins are so red which counterpoints the yellow.
This is one of the first flowers on a Hibiscus in my besties garden. It is so lovely again with reds and yellows
I love this orange and pink blush on this Hibiscus in my garden
This Summer the Marigolds have looked a treat
The Purple Gerbera really stand out in the garden
I this is a Livingstone Daisy, a brilliant splash of pink
Not only are flowers pretty in the garden but new leaves on a rose bush stand out as well.
The colour on the shed wall at my besties goes well with the flowers
The hanging pot of Geraniums has flowered well this month
A type of native Frangipanni in it’s stunning white colour
On a walk along a track at Evans Head we found some Wattles flowering possibly Acacia longifolia
There were also some seed pods on the trees as well
A Dragonfly decided to pay a visit to my verandah
The Lemon Migrant Butterflies arrived on their annual migration
I can’t help stalking Blue-banded Bees around the garden. Salvia flowers are a favourite
They like to dive straight in to one of my favorite coloured Salvias.
I had to go down river so I decided to keep driving to Brooms Head hoping to see the Coastal Emus that live down that way. I didn’t see any unfortunately. It wasn’t good weather at the beach and the Crested Terns faced into the wind so their feathers didn’t get too ruffled.
This Australian Pelican was standing on a rock for ages. I wondered what it was doing, then some fishers came over to the fish table to scale and gut their catch. Very soon the Pelican wandered closer.
The Sooty Oystercatches were hanging around looking for a snack to appear.
I haven’t made a silhouette for a while. This is a Male Figbird. The Figbirds have a nest in a Macaranga tree in my besties garden
Here is the female Figbird keeping watch on the power-line
I saw the Restless Flycatcher baby on the wire and soon a parent came to feed a tidbit
More birds on a wire. A Nankeen Kestrel waiting for something to move in the paddock down the road
A Peaceful Dove checking out the swimming pool
Sitting at my desk I had a feeling someone was watching me. A Rainbow Lorikeet was sitting in the tree
A Scarlet Honeyeater all puffed up after a dip in the bird bath
A delightful pairing. A Brown Honeyeater and purple Hibiscus. The Honeyeaters dip their beaks into the back of the flower to get the nectar
A couple of Australian Magpies enjoying the sunset on the roof
The sunset kissed clouds billowing in the west heralding the evening storm
I have never seen a rainbow with the colours so prominent. The storm clouds were getting closer.
Our Moon was just rising in the afternoon. I love the blue sky and the moon
Well the sun is setting over the four tree hill, one of my favourite vistas to witness sunset, so I better get going.
I hope you enjoyed my Changing Season. Join Ju-Lyn and I next month and don’t forget to link your Changing Season post to Ju-Lyns or my post
The Changing Seasons is a monthly project where bloggers around the world share their thoughts and feelings about the month just gone. We all approach this slightly differently ā though generally with an emphasis on the photos weāve taken during the month.
For many of us, looking back over these photos provides the structure and narrative of our post, so each month is different. Some focus on documenting the changes in a particular project ā such as a garden, an art or craft project, or a photographic diary of a familiar landscape.
But in the end, it is your changing season, and you should approach it however works for you.
There are no fixed rules around post length or photo number ā just a request that you respect your readersā time and engagement.
Debbie’s One Word Sunday: Rain
So many rain songs to choose from but here is one from an Aussie and the title – Raining on Sunday
Another post of looking back at first photos tagged Rain. As I expected the first one in 2012 wasn’t just rain, it was a Rainbow Lorikeet in my garden. So did look further on and it did take a bit of scrolling to find a photo that wasn’t a Rainbow Lorikeet.
From 2015 the rain had gone and left a couple of rainbows but still no actual rain photo. A photo from my desk where I used to work
An actual rain photo didn’t happen until 2017. This one is from an apartment in Sydney with a fabulous view.
The Lens-Artists Photo Challenge # 153: It’s a Wonderful World
Not going to go with the obvious song as everyone has already done that. Here’s my take on the song of choice
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