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| Crowding the edge of the track they flow back into the bush enjoying the respite from drought and fire and exhausting heat. Swaying their blooms in the breeze they clamour that size doesn’t matter being more beautiful than petunia or poppy or exotic polyanthus. Squawking galahs paint the air with garish pink and grey heralding the carpet of boronia and grevillea and spider orchid Which sneak through the leaf litter growing in the crushed sandstone the core debris of the bush humming as the colours sworl the canvas. |
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Wonderful words and photos...lots of beauty here.
ReplyDeleteThe first looks like birds in flight. Lovely photos, interesting notes on birding.
ReplyDeleteI love the galahs streaking by in pink and grey. I remember them from my visit to Australia many years ago.
ReplyDeleteThe flowers in the bush are beautiful, Julie, as are your photos of them, and your wonderful words.
Kay, Alberta, Canada
Indeed, that first is galahs streaking by. I have shots of them feeding on the ground but consider this, although a poor photograph, to be a good 'painting' of what I was trying to sayin this post.
ReplyDeleteI have no idea what these flowers are. I was told ...
that the little white one is a native orchid and indeed it has an orchid throat if you embiggen. There is a ground-cover green grevillea. The final image is a boronia known as 'bacon and eggs' ...
Beautiful photos and words - loved the flowers that sashayed through your poem.
ReplyDeleteAll those flowers on the Putty Road! I had no idea. You've opened my eyes.
ReplyDeleteTerrific bursts of colour in the bush.
ReplyDeletelove the birds on the wing
ReplyDeleteThe blur of the birds is gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteI am not a nature photographer but the top picture is a brilliant image. Subtle, all based on suggestion but so very evocative.
ReplyDeleteThe blurred birds are outstanding, capturing flight. Bob said it all.
ReplyDeleteVery lovely - you have a wonderful eye for a photo.
ReplyDeleteI love those galahs. The contrasting colours, the light through the feathers and the sense of movement are all really effective.
ReplyDelete... and SO deliberate ...
ReplyDeleteMany of these are familiar to me so here we go. Left, right, left, right etc
ReplyDelete1. Dunno
2. Dampiera
3. There are squillions of pea flowers Jacksonia, Pultenaea, Dillwynia, Daviesia, Bossiaea, Gompholobium and several varieties within these. I haven't got a clue which one it is
4.I think this might be a Large Wedge Pea (Gampholobium grandiflorum)
5.Green spider flower (Grevillia mucronulata)
6. Rice flower, Pimelea linifolia
7. Pink Fingers (Caladenia carnea)
8. It might be called bacon and eggs but it is not a boronia. One of the pea flowers listed above maybe Dillwynia (I love that name for some reason)
I hope you are suitably impressed. Back when I first started blogging I tried to identify every flower I photographed. As I have misplaced my flower book I used my blog to remember the names.
splutter splutter!! Suitably impressed ... you betcha ... so now go and do the same with Letty's bunch ... that green spider flower is the green grevillea I was told of ... pink fingers ... is that a native orchid ... will google that ...
ReplyDeleteIf you winch at Joan, aren't you glad your mother did not like Dillwynia ... the playground sure would have shortened that!!
Pssst ... taa ...
Pretty flowers and a charming poem too.
ReplyDeleteBrilliant birds.
ReplyDeleteYour colours are just so vivid! Stunning.
ReplyDeleteLove the one of the birds.
All beautiful photographs but that first one is a stunner!
ReplyDeleteThe pink fingers are certainly a native orchard. I was blown away to find they were tiny orchards the first time I photographed them.
ReplyDeleteYou sure know how to delight, Julie.
ReplyDelete[I've not been around as much lately... overflowing work plate and a hard disk giving me grief leave little time for fun like this...]
Ouch to both of those ...
ReplyDelete"they clamour that size doesn’t matter" that's the wildflowers of the burning bush. Read and looked all the way to here and more, nostalgia galore with Sydney (worked there many years) Putty Road... similar to Wollombi, where many of my (true) stories are set.
ReplyDeleteSo glad to have found you!
Ditto Mr Ray. I shall add you to my daily lookeesee list.
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