Banksias
Family
Nicolson Barker, rescue dog, with my daughter after his first attendance at obedience school
My son in his workplace in the rivers around Cairns: only one crocodile that I heard about
Bruce, our resident python, all new-skinned, on my deck!
Photos lurking on a card I obviously haven’t used since 2013
Son and son-in-law meet coincidentally at Gate 39 at Brisbane Airport
Around the streets
Trees
Coffee by the water
Beach miscellany
Odds and ends
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The world through your eyes and lens is a magical one. Nicolson is seriously cute and your daughter is the image of you. Is Bruce friendly, I can’t imagine sharing space with him!
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Bruce goes about his python business, neither friendly or unfriendly. But I have no fear of him, rather see him as a blessing. You are not the first to suggest that my daughter and I share a gene or two. We might think Nick is cute, but I gather Cruz doesn’t: he’s visiting with my son at the moment, and he’s not impressed.
(That photo of the nest you and your G-babies found is a beauty: those lovely sharp-focus feathers.)
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The Tuross Boat Shed and the sunset leap out at me. And the light through those eucalyptus leaves. I hope the python stays outside!!
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Only inside in the roof. What is it about the boatshed? It was my least favourite photo: I nearly didn’t use it.
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The first of the boat photos with the reflection is so lovely and sharp, the gulls just posing for you. I also like the rope in the second image though I might have focused just on that, and then the third photo shows the tranquillity of the setting – the quiet waters. I am not talking about the coffee shop picture. That is a bit boring. I have no idea why a boat is called a shed… and I am so glad I didn’t know about the python when I stayed with you…
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The boat belongs to the boatshed! Which is also my breakfast place of choice with my first friend when we moved her. When you were here the python may not have been. The coffee shop one was a grey day but it’s a spectacular view at Narooma – I was planning a series and a return but I didn’t get round to it. And I can’t let things go!! Although my new camera has just gone to get the lens cover sorted – I hope before we head west.
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Heading west sounds fun. I am imagining the wagons already… 😀
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We might actually need defences against … twins!!!
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Those long leaves win it for me. An exquisite photo. I have never seen eucalyptus leaves like that before. Do you know the species?
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Forest red gum – Eucalyptus tereticornis. My new camera is good on close up. However, I’m despatching it to camera hospital today with a problem opening the lens cover. That’s after I get access to my printer through all the living room stuff stashed in front of it for the carpet clean!
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OMG, that python! I’m still in a state of shock that one can get so close to the house. I hated my fear of snakes and spiders when I was in Oz but could do nothing about it and when I visited my Australian friends in Khao Lak in Thailand they introduced me to their pet monitor lizard which also scared the hell out of me. I envy you your calmness in the face of what could be instant death. To get back into a calmer frame of mind I gazed long and intently at your Beach Miscellany – love the Boatshed one in particular – and the Odds and Ends. Thanks for all of them.
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Sorry! Should have put a snake warning at the beginning. This one will not provide instant death. I have a photo of such a one peering into the curry pot on my friend’s stove, where he spent one winter. I was amused to see the panic in Warsaw recently over an Indian python on the loose. I feel blessed when I see mine – he appeared just as I was venturing into private consultancy and I saw him as a good omen. I’m glad the boatshed provided an antidote!
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I love this Hotchpotch, Meg. Family mingled together with nature, what could be better? I love the little rescue dog with the black eye! And the Banksias are interesting. I had to look them up to learn they are Australian honeysuckle. I’ve never seen anything like that before!
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Australian honeysuckle??? You can suck sweet nectar from the flowers, but there the resemblance ends! Young Nick is actually brown-spotted – I only realised that the other day. He’s just met Cruz, my resident dog, gone north with son for other son’s birthday celebration. The video my daughter just sent doesn’t quite make clear how the meeting went. They’re talking to each other round a corner.
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That’s what I found online when I looked it up. Strange it was described as such when you describe it so differently. 🙂
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I’d never heard it called that, but it makes sense given the sweetness of the nectar.
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Another great Hotchpotch, Meg!
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I love your Hotchpotches 🙂 🙂 The still reflection of Tuross Boat Shed and the sky leaping over the water and then melding with it are my favourites. And a certain tiny twosome! 🙂
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