If you’re a birder you would visit sewerage treatment plants just for the fun of it. If you’re nearby Byron Bay there is a nice little retired sewerage treatment plant at Suffolk Park. With a broad estuarine waterway running along side, there is a great mix of birds, of which one is the Red-backed Fairy Wren.

On my last visit a few weeks ago the water was clear, the sky blue and the Red-backs were hopping about without a care.

Strangely, Daffodils have always been a favourite plant for me. Despite being “exotic” they are a plant that flowers near my birthday, (which is rare) and we had a patch of Daffodils directly outside our front door at Preston. Mum and I would watch them put up leaves and then we would wait for the flowers. Bliss.

Below are Daffodils I planted at Nyora two years ago and now they are flowering. Please forgive me those of you who see them as weeds.

During a recent visit to Gembrook, I manage to take this photograph of a crop of Manna Gums, albeit an old crop. Grazing has been carried out underneath these large trees which I believe makes them more spectacular. However, where I live there are no plants over 10 metres in height, so I’m easily impressed.

This has got to be one of the oldest Blackwoods I have ever seen.  Located near Flinders on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria.

There was not a great deal of electricity being generated the morning I took this photograph but it was a nice view.

Dunkeld at night, with a truck passing by. Dunkeld is quiet and somewhat distant from the worlds distractions.

I call them a tree fern but is it a tree? Wikipedia states “any fern that grows with a trunk elevating the fronds (leaves) above ground level can be called a tree fern”  I guess, in the end, it’s up to you to call it whatever you want.

No, not the football team.

I visited Collingwood today, not far from where I use to work over twenty years ago. It struck me how much I love the vibe of this inner Melbourne suburb but also how I took for granted its constructed landscape.

Now twenty years later, some aspects seem foreign and unforgiving.

Just saying

Visiting a quiet little gully near Red Hill for the second time, I managed to get a few good photographs. It would be nice to spend more time here.

Very small fungi growing on the site of a path

Common Heath

Small fern just after rain

I finally managed to get my garlic planted a couple of weekends ago at Nyora. Whilst planting and avoiding typical winter showers, I noticed our Plane tree has no leaves but it is June.