I think someone wanted to cut the grass despite my car being there.

Say goodbye to may car, I’m buying a new one soon 😦

Often I wonder what it would be like to be an insect and see the small world as a big world. Maybe that’s why I like taking photographs of little plants and flowers up close. In a way it puts me in amongst the little ecosystems.

I also like minuscule on the ABC before the 7PM news. They have a great website: http://www.minuscule.tv/

Jenny Saulwick is a resident of Belgrave and has been for years but Jenny is also an environmental champion who walks the talk. In the photograph below, Jenny is standing next to a very difficult waterway rehabilitation project. As the coordinator of this rehabilitation project and being someone who cannot walk past an angled onion without pulling it out, this site has a good future.

Last weekend I was off to the Terrick Terrick National Park for the regular grassland bird survey. It’s a great place to visit but getting there was also good. The sun was setting and the light was good.

First is Prairie, a sleepy little crossroad.

Then I photographed the wheat silos at Mitiamo, another little crossroad.

And lastly a Canola Crop Sunday morning on the way home.

This photograph is a surf break inside Westernport that is called “the pines” It’s relatively passive but fun. Today it’s flat.

Shortly after we bought our house at Rye, I realised we had native orchids in our back yard. Initially there were only 20 – 40 but over the years I have hand weeded amongst them and around their perimeter with the result that we now have over 100 and they’re still increasing. The species is Pink Fairies Caladenia latifloia and whilst they are relatively common, we think they are special.

The photograph below is a couple of our special orchids.

Being the age I am, I can remember when people put flying ducks on the wall of their house as a feature. It’s a funny thing to put on a wall. It may be associated with a time when shooting ducks was popular and common.  I may be wrong but you don’t see it much these days.

BUT at a petrol station in the Tonimbuk area, (Victoria) I saw these. One can only wonder, how many would they sell?

After buying and planting some Broccoli at Nyora, Judy was given around 40 seedlings for nothing. I quickly made room before they become root bound. Some are seen in this photograph along the side of the larger bought Broccoli. In the background is some garlic.

Please forgive my next comment but “when I was a kid” it took half a day to get to the Mornington Peninsula. Not the case now and certainly not in a year or so.

The shot below is the formation of the new Peninsula Link freeway that will be snaking it’s way from Carrum to Teurong. This is the Teurong end. There was a rainbow amongst the beautiful clouds but below the march of progress continues. It’s pushed it’s way through remnant bushland, over paddocks and right next to houses that currently experience quiet.

I was speaking to someone yesterday about Wilsons Promontory. I haven’t been there for awhile so I had a look at some of my  photographs of the Prom.  Being a waterway fancier, I like this one.