Posts by ChrisW
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At the old cemetery on Anzac Day – colourful depths in Liquidambar foliage.
Or, focusing more on the individuals rather than the collective – depths of colour in Liquidambar leaves.
To the fallen.
Both scattered and swept into drifts by the wind, shadowed in matching pattern by the surviving Liquidambar foliage. -
Boring? If so, then no doubt you can liven them up with some monsters :-)
The sproutling is a cutting from a plant I have in a pot (photo'd November) that I've grown from a cutting from a shrub in my mother's old garden. I'm to return a new one in a pot for her, a sentimental favourite. It's Iboza = Tetradenia riparia from southern Africa, attractive foliage with soft textured heart-shaped leaves and sprays of mauve flowers in July.
I'd thought this cutting was a failure after no action for 5 weeks, so now that green sprouts are emerging, all the stronger the urge to take a baby photo to send to its great grandma. -
And a few light showers. Ongoing warmth and the onset of rain lately seem to have indicated 'Spring!' to this Nasturtium.
"A word in your ear?"
(Or just a passerby, heading off to chew the ear of some juicy mint leaves.) -
There was some real sun here this morning as I tended my exensive kitchen garden.
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Capture: Autumn lite, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Larger spot at far left looks mighty suspicious – reckon those spots might be mite-spots.
Dangers of close up photography!I'd eaten at least half the evidence before looking at the photo enlarged on screen, but further investigation on similar unopened fruits with a 10x hand-lens revealed the occasional six-legged spot ...
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Capture: Autumn lite, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Autumn leaf attracted to iron leaf-like.
Lovely. I'd never thought of poplar leaves as square before - it seems to have the NW quadrant well covered.
Another, earlier autumnal poplar leaf interrupted on its fall, by a she-oak/Casuarina in dry March conditions. Among all the angles, it may well be similarly square.
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An earlier attempt at holding a Cape gooseberry open to the window-light.
And detail, showing the obvious spots as on the surface of the sun. Sun-spots? or fly-spots. Larger spot at far left looks mighty suspicious – reckon those spots might be mite-spots.
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Capture: Autumn lite, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Indeed!!
Back to basics…..
Autumn lightand yellow fruitfulness -
Cape gooseberries on my kitchen sink-bench (have I mentioned my house was built in the late 1970s?). I expected to fit six together in this circle, but by their angles they insisted on five.
Nicely matching the five-fold division of the flower and calyx.
That's not a gardener's hand! They grow happily without my assistance, and I'm happy to hunt and gather them. Only once has there been enough at one time for a pot of wonderful jam. -
More on yesterday's brief fogginess - through the double window, before sun-up.
Just after sun-up, the murky golden light befitting the last of this poplar's leaves.
The solo duck generally feeds with the gang of five, but that dark blob beside it is its best friend, a black chook. -
Capture: Autumn lite, in reply to Jos,
So this is what happens next after peppers go bad.
I reckon it had plenty and looked better before! But the autumn blend definitely has something more than the sum of the parts.
