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10 May – the stem stiffens, moves across to its neighbour with a new golden glove seeming ready to catch the fig if it falls.
But no, those leaves fell instead.
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It happens I have a photographic record of this particular fig and its stem through most of autumn – this was the
And lo! the fig-leaf of the east has caught
The sun’s delight in a golden glove.
fig leaf back on page 1 on 24 April.With green fig hidden in the foliage, subtly exposed by red arrow.
11 days later on 5 May – all the leaves are gone …
on that stem at least. What is to become of the leftover green fig? No ripening seemed to be taking place anywhere else on the tree over ten days or more – it seems they were stranded too late in the season? -
Late figs have been ripening over the last few days – surely more appealing than an old bag of lard to a flock of silvereyes?
Here’s a fig being finished off in this morning’s sun, against textured alder foliage in its muted autumn colours.To which a silvereye is remarkably well matched.
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And what an eye, Jos! But back on the subject of breakfast, not the ducks', nor a dog's, but mine this morning for all to see - muesli by my own fair hands featuring heaps of walnuts. But in particular the drops of yoghurt each similarly moulded by tetrapak spout but with variations, suddenly reminded me of something - the ?"genetically modified" ?raindrops of yours in the tui tui blend I commented on back two pages.
Hence photo, and to ask how/what are those ghostly face-like drop-likes of yours in Tui tui in the rain, all similar but each different?
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On the riverbank a little earlier,
solo duck and best friend the black chook exchange glances. They are unmoved by the spectacle but agree it is a sign that breakfast will soon be served. -
Autumn’s morn
this morn, on the riverbank.I thought to read the signs in relation to budgetary politics or personals, but inspiration did not take me past
Morn Ng swerve.
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In this case including a pair of mallard/grey ducks resting in the shady shelter of the overhanging riverbank at lowish tide – ‘loafing’ the ornithologists’ term, as perhaps I am doing too, gazing through my glass window and the foliage window into a room of their world of secure contentment, on a tidal river in town, a few days into the duck-shooting season.
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Later in the morning, kitchen windows being atypically clean after a recent burst of activity on my part, thought to photograph the wider context wherein I first saw this gem, standing at the kitchen sink as one does.
The grape foliage fitting neatly under the wing of the old grapefruit tree (its name both fitting and unfitting). The distinctiveness in the play of light and shade on the form and texture of each of those grape leaves. Their connecting gaps as positive contributions to the image. And as windows to the beyond …
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Yesterday morning’s sunshine as if held within a woven gift bowl, framed by grape foliage.
Closer view, to emphasise the organically geometric design – or is it geometrically organic?
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Capture: Autumn lite, in reply to Jos,
Tui tui in the rain.
I like this one very much, there's a dreamy visual coherence and much detail to intrigue. It would look great printed large I reckon. Especially notable the tui's red eye in relation to the rain-drops genetically modified(!:-)) and plain. I was thinking "beady red eye" but then 'beady' has other connotations, so 'bead-like' red eye instead.
Which stimulated me to recover this not quite successful image of two bead generations on a tiny 3-d network of spider threads, as the sun came through the fog one morning last week. Those of the larger older bead generation enclose not-quite-sharp-enough refracted images of strings of beads.
