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Daily Archives: June 5, 2014

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Dianella caerulea really really closeup

A fossil in the garden

Red wattlebird in our Japanese maple

Pelicans on the Wyong River in late afternoon

And this time a squid.

The papparazzi invade the marsupial Big Brother House

Red liquidamba leaves

Reflections of a ground predator

Spring rain

Brush turkey chick on the alert

Australian magpie with hairy caterpillar

Silhouette of a yellow tailed black cockatoo

Pomegranate star and blue sky

Spring rain

July sunset – sorry for knocking you off your perch for this one Snowball

Still morning on Two Mile Lake

Mist rising over Berowra Valley National Park

Eye to eye with Snakey the diamond python

A hoarder’s confessions

From a sentimental chicken remembers the good old days

The light blue soldier crab, Mictyris longicarpus

From bean thieves

Eat your heart out Georgia O’Keefe

Child’s eye view

The liquidambar feast

Winners and weeds

Eastern water dragon enjoying the attentions of the papperazzi.

Beautiful jerusalem artichoke flowers

Bowerbirds: snacking for solar gain

From bean thieves

White faced heron

Borage: a salad climax community

Apocalypse descending over Berowra

First artichoke of the year

A breba crop

Summer sunset

Orchestral manoeuvres in the dark

Just part of the flock

A hoarder’s confessions

Andy mugshot

Clydeside in late autumn. Ideal habitat for kale.

Past-it parsley showing off its new spiky leaves

Butterfly visiting a shallot flower – is it a cabbage white?

The Bronze Orange Bug: a worthy adversary

Death, hot compost and chicken addictions

Today on chicken TV: the makeover show

Tumeric flower

A fossil in the garden

From labour and wait

Surfers floating over the relics of yesterday’s lagoon

Dawn breaks over the barrier between Bombah Broadwater and the open sea

April sunrise

Huge sandstone cliffs at Wentworth Falls

Bee-ing positive

Spring rain

A fossil in the garden

Sprinter (not yet sprummer)

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