We have blossom on our fruit trees now. The plum trees, apple trees and down the road are the cherry blossom blooming. The bees are more evident now and busy all day long.
Category: Flora
Winter daisies
There are quite a few flowers starting to show now. The daisies are out, and the camelias. We’ve got bulbs springing up all over our property. These are always a surprise as we didn’t plant most of them. I’ll share them with you as they flower over time. Below are yellow daisies and a white…
Winter Flower – Azalea
The Azaleas are now coming out in flower and looking quite pretty.
The Fruit of the Liquidamber
I didn’t know what these would be called. Seems they have lots of names such as “space bug”, “monkey ball”, “bommyknocker”, “bir ball”, “gumball”, “conkleberry”, “cukoo-bir” or “sticky ball” (see Wikipedia) In reality they are fruit and that explains why the birds (parrots in particular) go crazy over them.
The last of the Autumn leaves
They’re almost gone now. Most are on the ground, brown or black, crisp or drowned by the rain. Amongst them all was this red leaf that stood out.
T'was a foggy morning
This is outside our house one foggy morning just after 8am last week. I’ve had a lot of feedback about this image at both Flickr and Facebook. It has an eery surreal look about it. It is currently my favourite shot. This image is now for sale in both low res and high res copies….
Winter Iris
Amongst all the dead autumn leaves and the green leaves of bushes on the ground I spied a bit of purple and went to investigate.
Oak Tree's last leaves
We still have a few Autumn leaves on display but not many.
Winter flower
While it is winter here we’ve had some amazing sunny cool crisp days. Makes for nice photos. This is a Salvia in full bloom.
Kookaburra in the autumn
This shot I took a couple of weeks ago. I’d never taken a shot with a kookaburra with autumn leaves in the shot before and it appealed to me.
The Colours of Autumn VII
Seems that nature is matching its surroundings at the moment. When we drive down the hill towards our home all you can see is yellow, green and gold, and some brown. The leaves on the ground matching the picket fence of our front yard. It really stands out from the rest of the street which…
The Colours of Autumn VI
More colours of Autumn. This time from my own garden.