Saturday, September 24, 2016

Pine cones at Bool Lagoon, Kuitpo, and Lyndoch Hill -- years apart

Pinecones at Book Lagoon in heavy weather, March 2012

...and at Kuitpo, in the strange, cool, green summer of 2024

...and at Lyndoch Hill, autumn 2021


Moonrise at Normanville - the Supermoon of June, 2011




The sun shines in winter: vineyards at Blewitt Springs




Acorns and Conkers and Brambles ... and Rabbits -- oh, my!






Looks like rain


Koala, napping on a blue-sky day


Naptime for a sleepy koala at Belair National Park


Deer in the mist


Deer in the mist near Hahndorf 

...and at Deep Creek

...and they've spotted me!


Sunset inferno, Normanville in June 2011




Ducklings at Byards Wetlands



Byards Wetlands is a great place to see ducklings...

...it wouldn't be spring without duckings!

These are the 'lings of Pacific Black ducks...

...and like ducklings anywere, they're just too cute!



Koala!

Koala in the dawn light, Onkaparinga Gorge

Ear-tagged koala at Playford lake, 2023

Untagged koala, Belair NP, 2011


Twelve Apostles


Banksia -- an alien life form, and a beautiful flower





Raindrops and roses, captured in Hahndorf in 2008, right after a shower





Raindrops at Morialta


On a walk to the falls at Morialta in the rain, 2012


Fiddlehead fern, Warrawong Sanctuary

Fiddlehead on a fern tree at Warrawong Sanctuary 


The Dance of the Monarch Butterflies


At Mount Bold Reservoir


...in the garden here at home!


...in a treetop at Manning Floral Reserve


...on a thistle at Belair NP


Little corella -- look at that mascara!





New Holland honey eaters!







Darter at Belair NP


A magnificent male Darter on Playford Lake


Kookaburras at Belair NP