Lovely to look out the window or over the fence here at home to see sights I never saw in the suburbs. I could hear the lazy clip clop of a horse’s hooves and was in time to catch this girl and possibly her brother or a friend riding beside her on their bike as…
Category: At home
Liquidamber in the Winter
This tree is outside my office window and one day last week we actually had some blue sky. A hint of the Spring just around the corner.
Blackbird in the garden
The Blackbirds are hard to get. Any sign of movement a distance away and they hide away under bushes or fly into trees. This one was in the garden outside my office window and I was able to move the net curtain aside very slowly to poke my camera lens through to take these pictures. …
Toki in the garden
I think Toki is a lovely study when he doesn’t realise I’m watching him. He often follows me around in the garden as I move around with my camera.
Curious parrot
I was watching two Australian King Parrots in my garden and kept a distance so I wouldn’t scare them away. Managed to get a few shots and moved in a bit closer at each click. The male had noticed me and then took off and I thought that was that. Imagine my surprise when he…
Winter blooms
We have a number of flowers out now for winter and one of those is the Grevillea. We’ve got a few grevilleas and this is the larger one. The Eastern Spinebills and Wattle Birds which I’ve posted at other times really love this flower.
Rain Chain
Not long after we bought our new home, but before we shifted in, my youngest daughter and I were visiting outside looking longingly at the house and talking about when my husband and I would shift in. She noticed a thick chain hanging down from the corner of the verandah roof and mentioned it to…
Maa, our sheep
Maa came with the property when we bought our new home last year. I don’t know if she used to bleat a lot for the previous owners but she certainly does for us. I don’t really remember her doing that when we came to look at the house. Seems she’s always wanting company and always…
Australian King Parrots
We have a couple of feeders in our park. One hanging off the pergola and another off an oak tree. After I put this one up and started to put seed out we had Australian King Parrots pay us a visit. They hadn’t been here before then although I knew they visited a place across…
Thanks Dad Photo Competition
The national (Australia) Thanks Dad Photo Competition is on. This is the brainchild of 3 men, Chris Hawke, Michael Hawton and Greg Schlieman who have all been involved in men’s welfare issues and who wanted to bring positive images of Australian fathers to the attention of us all. There is so much ‘bad news’ about…
Another view
Here’s another view of that pergola. It is a pleasant place to sit during the day and watch the bird life, or listen to it. The cats like to come and sit with me in there too.
Protea in flower
I’m loving discovering all of the flowers on our still new property. We’ve been here almost 9 months and the winter flowers are now out. This is a protea.