My first walk in my home bush was partly about the ground (and water) beneath my feet, and partly about the bark in front of my eyes.
I set off eagerly along a familiar track, and suddenly there was another path heading off to my right, never seen before, but well formed and probably part of bushfire containment. So of course I set off along it, glad to be walking my own territory again, and pleased to find it unfamiliar. I followed the track along a ridge and then down into a gradual gully, with glimpses of a lake through the trees. The track dwindled, so I turned back before I reached the water, leaving that pleasure for another day.
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SO Meg! 🙂 🙂
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Trees are wonderful entities, aren’t they? All that arty recycling they do, welcoming you home.
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They must’ve been preparing for my return for a long time!
Sebald awaits me on my Kindle. Thank you.
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Lovely colours and texture in the leaf litter and bark and the second muddy reflection could be an intended sepia image if you stand on your head! It always fascinated me how the previous autumn lingers and underlies the current spring. By full summer it must still be there but we are distracted by greenery. Great to see you home Meg 🙂
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Are you up for head-standing? I’m not! Never have been. All this leaf litter is from non-deciduous trees, and it’s probably been building up for a while. But I love the idea of autumn lingering and underlying spring. Our summer doesn’t provide the greenery that is such splendour on your side of the world.
It’s great to be home, Gilly. I’m adaptable, but when it came to the point I was panting for the Point!
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Beautiful images of the different barks (now I get your leitmotif)…… And a great gallery 🙂
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Thank you. Compliments from you are indeed worth having!
Broken Hill is about 1300 km from the coast. I knew I had a bark problem when I was stopping every 200 metres to capture bark. Unfortunately I did not seek help then!
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Love it! Well, I’m semi-obsessional about decrepitude! 😦
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Semi-obsessional? You’re too modest.
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OK, you’ve labelled me now….. 😧
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I love the area around where you live Meg, and have happy memories of walks with you there. Your photos of the trunks of spotted gums and the litter of casuarina seed heads, eucalyptus leaves and strips of bark, arranged artistically as only nature can, delight the senses. What a lovely welcome home. However I agree with you that in such beauty also lies the danger of bushfires as the weather grows warmer and drier.
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You’re right about nature’s arrangements: if I tried to do it myself it’d look far too ordered. It was odd that I wanted bush rather than ocean for my welcome home.
Does this mean you’re properly back on line?
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Yes I am back on line, after several conversations with the ISP consultants, a new modem to replace the one provided by that ISP, and two visits from my computer geek. I now have reliable internet connection which doesn’t keep cutting out all the time, or not working at all. It has been a real headache. It made me realise how much I rely on the internet. This afternoon, while I was out, there was a phone call from one of the ISP consultants to check on what was happening. They do some things right.
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Hallelujah!
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It must be good to be home and walking and seeing the brown, brown bark of home….Your gallery has an autumnal feel to it even though we are verging on summer, good gallery…
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All that desiccation is a bit scary.
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Wonderful photos and gallery presentation Meg. The ones of the ground really work for that’s what we see most walking in the bush. Its interesting how much drier it is than here. Waling in Tower Hill yesterday everything was damp – even muddy.
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Gallery created in Frametastic (awful name!) which I can use with Blogsy and which gives me many photos for the price of one. I felt very welcomed home by this walk, and my old camera was a good (and accidental) companion – still not unpacked from the car.
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The galleryworks well as does the camera. It must begood to be home. Beautiful sunshine down here today but still cold. Imustget offline and work… 😦
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Me too – I’m reading an article about the snout of an echidna and it’s hard!
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weird little creatures – the snout does look hard – now that you mention it.
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I meant the article was hard reading! Dysfunctional ambiguity as opposed to yours, which is always superbly functional.
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Lol. 🙂
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