We have a variety of mushrooms popping up everywhere. Mainly tiny ones like the ones below. The larger of the three tiny ones has 3 very tiny yellow bugs on it. I’ll have to go out again with my macro to see if I can pick up what the bugs might be. The other is…
Category: Flora
Winter flowers
Now that winter is setting in here in Victoria, Australia, the winter flowers are out in bloom and one recent day we did have sunshine and blue skies. Below are images from our own garden and that of our neighbour’s.
Beautiful morning
We are now in the months of winter here in Australia and in my own state of Victoria, it has already gotten particularly cold, and wet. We had a long weekend this past weekend and Graham and I had nothing in particular planned. Just taking each day as it comes. Saturday and Sunday were days…
Amanita muscaria
I’d almost given up on seeing any this year in our garden. Previous years it had been much earlier in May for them to be visible. Here it is early June and I found this a few days ago, at the end of May. And we’ve only seen one this year instead of a dozen…
Last of Autumn
Winter has definitely been on the way for some weeks now. Cold days, cold nights, wind and rain and we’ve been getting the occcasional gorgeous Autumn day here and there. These are Autumn leaves from our Liquidamber tree in our garden. As you read this post today, we’re busy getting ready for our daughter’s wedding…
Huge leaf
Saw this huge leaf on the ground at home the other day and wondered where on earth it had come from. Then as I wandered around the garden I noticed a tall tree at the side of our property that I’d not taken a lot of notice of in the past and realised the leaf…
The beautiful dahlia
As Autumn is drawing to a close and winter is nearly upon us, the garden is starting to look bare with leaves scattered all over the ground and the trees looking bare. This dahlia was in full bloom recently though and looking very beautiful.
Our Autumn garden
Some might think it messy and others colourful but our Liquidambers are definitely putting on a show at our home right now.
Beautiful Crepe Myrtle
Our Crepe Myrtle has turned the most beautiful colour. It probably won’t be long before it loses all of its leaves. Sunday was a beautifully glorious day with blue skies and the leaves look just wonderful with the blue background, don’t you think?
Sunlit maple leaves
These past few days have been absolutely gorgeous here in Victoria, Australia. I really do love Melbourne’s Autumns – it’s the best time of the year. Warm days, cool nights, beautiful colours, fog and mist, great sunrises and sunsets. Our two maple trees have begun changing colour and this is the upright with the leaves…
Aging Mushroom
We’ve had only a very small number of mushrooms in the garden so far. I’m hoping we get a lot more as we have had in previous Autumns. This one was a large white one that started to keel over. I liked the colouring underneath and then noticed a bug on the stem once I…
Why is this fig so important?
I hope you all had a great Easter break. I even took a break from my blog here – family things happening, attending church services and also breaking in a new computer. I’m still transferring stuff from the old one but am at about 85% capacity now. Today’s photo was taken a couple of days…