Last on the Card – May 2023

Last Photo for May 2023

Everyone who contributes their good and not so good photos has fun I hope. I enjoy seeing your photos. Thanks to those being brave enough to show everyone your last photo or photos from your phone and camera.
It doesn’t have to be on the very last day of the month if you didn’t take any photos. Maybe it was earlier in the month when the last photo was taken.

So let’s see what you have for May 2023

The rules are simple:
1. Post the last photo on your SD card or last photo on your phone for the 3ist may or whenever your last photo was taken.
2. No editing – who cares if it is out of focus, not framed as you would like or the subject matter didn’t cooperate.
3. You don’t have to have any explanations, just the photo will do
4. Create a Pingback to this post or link in the comments
5. Use the tags The Last Photo and #LastOnTheCard

Here’s mine. Last month an unintentional floral theme, this month, an insect leaning.

From my Samsung Galaxy S9

From my Canon PowerShot SX70HS

From my Canon EOS 1300D

Feathers of pink

Denzil’s Nature Photo Challenge #3: Pink
Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge: The Birds

The splendid little Rose Robin

Pink Galahs enjoy their lives together and are sweet to watch

and a bit of no feathers fungi for fun

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

Happy Valentines Day

This is for those who would like a few roses for Valentines Day. They come with love from me

Taste of You

The taste of your lips,
the smell of your body.
your touch
on my skin –
the warmth of your body
next to mine,
bodies melding together
feeling your heart beat.
eyes closed
but seeing everything.
words not said
but saying everything.
kiss me again –
a kiss that I can spin
into a dream,
a dream I can spin
into reality
with the taste of your lips
and smell of you upon me.

and a little Rose Robin to help melt your heart

This is the month…..

…..when a special visitor arrives at my place.

Ragtag Daily Prompt Saturday: Rosy Hues

I was sitting in the garden talking on the phone when he came by. Sitting in the Grevillea and they over to a bird bath. I didn’t have my camera and the phone camera wasn’t available as I was on an important call. So to let you see what I hope to see maybe tomorrow or during the week ahead, which gives me a rosy hue is the beautiful Rose Robin.

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Is it pink?

The Weekly Prompts Photo Challenge: Magenta Rose

I think I may have some magenta rose pics here somewhere……
Maybe…..flower pink_named_binna burra_may 2017
Hmmmm….maybe notflowers_pink_red_named_caniaba_oct 2018

This little fellow could be……
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This Frangipanni is closeflower_dark pink_frangipanni_garden_named_home_dec 2018

I think this could even be an actual Magenta Rose
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This is June 2019

About time I hear you say. Yes I am a bit late with last months wrap up. I didn’t take as many photos early on and then I seemed to find lots to photograph. This months photos have a couple I have used in other photo challenges but I decided to keep this post a bit shorter by not including the those photos.

So sit back and have a scroll through my June

Let’s start in Inverell, a town about 200kms from my place. We decided to have a mini holiday and ventured west. My goodness the drought has really hit hard out there. Didn’t see the usual paddocks with sheep and cattle in them. Many farmers have de-stocked and just holding onto their core breeding stock for when the drought breaks.
We stayed at a fabulous B’n’B, Blair Athol a Manor house from the early 1900’s. It is a great place to stay
blair athol estate_house_named_inverell_june 2019
We did venture around the countryside. It was quite sad. I think this granite outcrop says it all.granite_rocks_outcrop_named_tingha_june 2019
I found a Pied Cormorant just after a bit of a dip in the water. I love how Cormorants do this. Makes me smile every time.pied_cormorant_named_inverell_june 2019
Back home I was surprised to see ducks on my house dam as the water level is quite low. Three Pacific Black Ducks cruise the dam.pacific_black_ducks_dam_named_home_jackadgery_june 2019
Sometimes when I am about in the garden doing a bit of bird spotting I get a feeling I am being watched as well. This Grey-shrike Thrush was making sure I was being good.grey_shrike_thrush_named_home_jackadgery_june 2019
Another Winter visitor to the garden are Golden Whistlersgolden_whistler_named_home_jackadgery_june 2019
Of course a monthly wrap wouldn’t be the same without the resident Eastern Yellow Robin who found a post to sit on while surveying the garden for a snack.eastern_yellow_robin_named_home_jacadgery_june 2019
Little Striated Thornbills are flying about the garden in the afternoonsstriated_thornbill_named_home_jackadgery_june 2019
The Rose Robins are still around as wellrose_robin_named_home_jacadgery_june 2019
The Agave looked lovely in the afternoon lightagave_garden_sun_named_home_jackadgery_june 2019
This is called Witches Broom it is on a small Eucalypt. witches_broom_garden_named_home_jackadgery_june 2019
The variety of plants that are growing on a palm in the garden is wonderful. At the front is an Elk Horn, behind it on the right is a Birds nest Fern. They are surrounded by Hares Foot Fern and to the left rear is Fishbone Fern. All of these plants have decided to grow among the palm’s trunk.palm_elkhorn_birdsnest_fern_haresfoot_fern_garden_named_home_jackadgery_june 2019
Nearby, a Jacaranda has a lovely growth of moss that cascades to the ground.moss_garden_named_home_jackadgery_june 2019
My mate Geoffs Iris has flowered. Always will bring back a memory.iris_purple_garden_named_home_jackadgery_june 2019
All around the place Lichen has sprung up as there has been showers of rain over the last part of the month enough to keep the garden happy and for some plants to emerge.lichen_named_home_jackadgery_june 2019
I love finding water drops. My besties place has had much more rain than here.cumquat_water_drop_garden_named_caniabajune 2019
These are the seed pods from an Eucalypt tree I found in Inverell.nut_eucalypt_tree_inverell_june 2019
I haven’t taken many photos of the Red-necked Wallabies that hang around my place. I caught this bloke with a mouth full of grass.red-necked_wallaby_named_home_jackadgery_june 2019
Late one afternoon at my besties, she called out to come over to where she was in the garden. She found a little Bandi Bandi going across a log heading for a safe place to spend the night.bandi_bandi_named_caniaba_june 2019
There appears to be lots of Wanderer Butterflies about at the moment. Found this one flying around the lane-ways of Lismore.wanderer_butterfly_flying_named_lismore_june 2019
Meanwhile there are Wanderers in my besties garden feeding on Echinacea flowers.wanderer_echanacia_flower_garden_named_caniaba_june 2019
One day we decided to head to the coast for lunch at the Ballina Beach Surf Club. Afterwards, after watching whales from the window while eating, we wandered up to the headland and watched the Humpback Whales cruising past. I bit of blow usually let me know where they were.humpback_whale_blow_named_ballina_headland_june 2019

I love it when they gave a wave.
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Managed to get some tail shots.humpback_whale_tail_splash2_named_ballina_headland_june 2019
but could never be focused on the right place when a Humpback breachedhumpback_whale_tail_splash1_named_ballina_headland_june 2019
Now for a bit of weird. Walking down a lane in Lismore we always look to see if this window has changed. I think the hand and flag on the right have been added.eclectic_window_wierd_named_lismore_june 2019

A stack of chairs in a window.
chairs_window_named_lismore_june 2019

One morning, the mist was settled in the valleys. I used to tell the kids that the mountains have captured the clouds.
great_dividing_range_cloud_june 2019

A bit of my playing around with photos. A Magpie on a steel post
magpie_post_art_named_inverell_june 2019
OK the sun is down so time for me to go.sunset_orange_named_caniaba_june 2019

I hope you have enjoyed a bit of a look at my June. The feature photo is a butterfly among the Zinnias in my besties garden.

Rose

The Ragtag Daily Prompt Friday: Rose

So many ideas for Rose that Steph proposed but I think I’ll just go with the fabulous flower that is the Rose and maybe sneak in a surprise Rose.

rose_mauve_named_orange_feb 2015

 

rose_pink_named_orange_feb 2015

 

rose_white_named_orange_feb 2015

 

rose_yellow_named_orange_feb 2015

 

170712_blog challenge_flower of the day_rose

 

180426_blog challenge_lines_rose

 

180530_blackand white_flowers_rose

 

180904_blog challenge_pink square_rose

 

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First surprise Rose, a Desert Roseflowers_desert_rose_named_lismore_march 2019

Or of course there are Ceiling Roses for number two
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and for the final surprise, how could I not include my Winter visitor to my garden, the little fabulous Rose Robinrose robin1_named_home_july 2018

and for Sarah’s 30 Days 30 Songs

Yesterday in the garden

I was doing a bit of building work on the shed yesterday. In the afternoon I decided to have a break and was sitting on the step when there was a flash through the garden and onto the hibiscus. I was used to seeing Yellow-faced Honeyeaters getting a snack from the last red flowers. This time it was a smaller different coloured bird. Then all of a sudden other birds came swooping through the garden.

Here is just almost a half hour in  the garden.

The Peaceful Doves are always around. They are small and can get through the wire around the chooks yard and house. They always have a supply of food.
peaceful_dove_garden_home_jackadgery_june 2019
Of course this isn’t in the garden. The dam is quite low so I was surprised to see three Pacific Black Ducks swimming aroundpacific_black_ducks_dam_home_jackadgery_june 2019

Out front, this Grevillea is flowering. The Eastern Spinebill loves coming in to get the nectar. Sometimes they like to hover like Hummingbirds while their bill is in the flowerseastern_spinebill_grevillea_garden_home_jackadgery_june 2019
Every Winter there is a small flock of Yellow-faced Honeyeaters who stay at my place.yellow_faced_honeyeater_garden_home_jackadgery_june 2019

Eastern Yellow Robins are always around. When the heat of Summer is on, they spend more time in the gullies that surround the house. Yesterday there was two Robins who chased each other around the garden
eastern_yellow_robin_garden_home_jackadgery_june 2019
This is the visitor I have been waiting for, that first flash though the garden. Every year the little lovely Rose Robins arrive to add that splash of colour to the Winter garden.
rose_robin_garden_home_jackadgery_june 2019

I hope you enjoyed a quick half-hour in my garden with me.