Posts by Islander
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Capture: Better Food Photography, in reply to Steve Barnes,
I have a Monstera deliciosa that was given by a nephew of my mother's for her second wedding. The shithead she married is thankfully dead, but Mary & the Monstera happily thrive (the latter in my living room.) Never flowered or fruited. Temperature I suspect-
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Capture: Better Food Photography, in reply to David Hood,
O waua!
Wonder if I can recreate it in scone - or maybe, damper? - dough? -
Capture: Better Food Photography, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Ooo! Now I know what I was sold by a kid here in Okarito - he called 'em 'Chilli berries' and they * were* tasty. I had hopes of heat...
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Capture: Better Food Photography, in reply to Jackie Clark,
O! We used to have bushes of 'Cape Gooseberries' at Leaver Terrace.
First up, got them all. (Familial sharing? Not among the kids' bushes - but you trespassed on the adults' lot at your peril...)Never encountered plants since.
Jackson - lovely & evocative -obviously! - photo.
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to JacksonP,
I’d go with juv. blackback – both skuas have noticeable white flashes on the underside of their wings-
just incidentally, I got to know most of our gulls and mollymawks and terns, & quite a few petrels over time at Moeraki, Rakiura & Okarito. Fishing brings an interest in things other than fish...
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Adult blackbacked gull, karoro
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Red-billed gull (to distinguish it from the black-billed gull - amazing imagination in some bird names eh?) Tarapuka in the South-
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Whitcha?
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Capture: Better Food Photography, in reply to Hebe,
The family's fig supply is against a limestone cliff: huge old tree (well-netted )and four younger trees - interestingly, my brother's bloody big(stands on it's hinds taller than I am) & frightening (fortunately well-trained) Alsatian will go and nip off a few figs....
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Capture: Better Food Photography, in reply to Hebe,
Taoka indeed!
One of the weird things I regret about a younger sister's death is that the ruby-glass crystal bowl for trifles vanished into her Australian husband's family.
You cant do or so say anything about this kind of stuff.
You just mourn for childhood feasts now gone forever.