Spring is here! (at least in Australia, it is!)

At this time of the year it's a pleasure to go out into the garden.  The weather's still cool, with a maximum of 20C today.  The sun's been shining and the jasmine and freesias are beginning to perfume the air.

I've been having problems transferring pictures from my camera onto my computer, so there ( Read more... )

Yay!  It's spring!  Well, at least it is down here!  While everyone in the Northern Hemisphere is entering autumn and heading towards winter, it's finally warming up here.  It's about time.  We've had an unusually cold winter for Perth and I'm ready to defrost!

My garden has been blooming for a few weeks now.  Here's a selection for your enjoyment ( Read more... )

Spring has well and truly sprung, and the garden is being very fruitful.

Do you want a good laugh?  We pulled some carrots from our garden today.  These ones are a little "different", don't you think?

( Oh, and I've rearranged them a bit...:) )

It's been very cold here!  All of a sudden the temperature (day and night) has dropped very low (for Perth).  The maximum yesterday and today were 15.1C and 15.6C, respectively.  This is what our back yard looked like yesterday when the minimum was 0.2C.


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My third and final wildlife post consists of larger creatures than were featured in earlier posts.  Birds, frogs and reptiles (no, not snakes!).

The photos in this first section were all taken in my garden.

Two rainbow lorikeets flew up into our back yard tree after I disturbed them eating our grapes.  Grrr!   Still, they're pretty!


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This is the second of my "wildlife" posts.

Our garden hosts many different type of insects.  They are always there, though not necessarily seen!  These pictures are of several different varieties of insects that I've photographed over the last few years.

I just love this little green leaf-shaped insect.  It looks like it's desperately trying to make ( Read more... )

I've been going through my photo collection and found that I had a lot of "wildlife" pictures among them.  These range from tiny insects through to amphibians, reptiles and birds.

We're still going through our long, hot, dry summer, and the garden isn't looking too good at the moment!  So instead of new flowers, I thought I'd do a series of posts ( Read more... )

I finally splashed out and bought a new digital camera in the post-Christmas sales.  It's a Panasonic Lumix DMS-FS7.  It's not the top of the Lumix range, but it's the best I could afford.  At least I got it for a lot better price than the one shown in the link. :)

There's nothing wrong with the quality of the pictures I took with my Pentax.  It's ( Read more... )

After yesterday's scorcher, some of my flowers are looking a little worse for wear today.  A temperature transition from the low '20s to the high '30s in the space of a day does not make for good things to happen in the garden!

However, the vegetable garden fared much better (just a couple of scorched leaves on a silverbeet plant).

The snowpeas have ( Read more... )

Sorry for the pic-spams over the last few days - including this one!  It's just that the garden is looking so good at the moment that I want to record all of it while it's still here (and it isn't going to last very long)!

I thought I'd lost my red freesia - but no, here it is!


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