Saturday 31 July 2021
BLACK COCKATOO
Friday 30 July 2021
Thursday 29 July 2021
SPRING BLOSSOM
A little early this year, the wild plum trees are blooming and `that means that Spring is not too far off in the Southern Hemisphere!
This post is part of the Floral Friday Fotos meme
Wednesday 28 July 2021
DON'T RUBBISH OUR CREEKS
and also part of the My Corner of the World meme,
Tuesday 27 July 2021
COUNTRYSIDE
Monday 26 July 2021
BLUE MOOD
and also part of the Blue Monday meme,
and also part of the Seasons meme.
Sunday 25 July 2021
Saturday 24 July 2021
MILLIPEDE
Friday 23 July 2021
Thursday 22 July 2021
RED GREVILLEA
Wednesday 21 July 2021
FADING LIGHT
and also part of the My Corner of the World meme,
and also part of the Nature Notes meme.
Tuesday 20 July 2021
HAPPIER TIMES
and also part of the Ruby Tuesday meme,
and also part of the Travel Tuesday meme,
and also part of the Wordless Wednesday meme.
Monday 19 July 2021
IN THE CITY
and also part of the Blue Monday meme,
and also part of the Seasons meme.
Sunday 18 July 2021
Saturday 17 July 2021
FISH DINNER?
Friday 16 July 2021
Thursday 15 July 2021
SOUTHERN BOUQUET
The flora of South Africa and Australia is very distinctive with quite a few rich botanical families that provide a diverse and amazing bouquet of flowers. The Proteaceae (banksias, grevilleas, waratahs) and Myrtaceae (eucalypts, bottlebrushes, titrees, lillipillis) especially are well represented.
Australia and New Zealand once formed part of a huge southern land mass now referred to as Gondwanaland, whereas northern hemisphere continents were once aggregated into Laurasia. Gondwanaland and Laurasia began to disaggregate about 160 million years ago. Prior to this time, the southern hemisphere land masses and India were connected into Gondwanaland, while North America, Europe and much of Asia formed Laurasia.
South Africa, Madagascar, India, South America, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Australia and various other fragments broke away and drifted northwards, leaving Antarctica behind. Australia and South America were the last major land masses to separate from Antarctica, Australia beginning slowly about 90 to 100 million years ago and establishing a deep ocean passage some 30 to 40 million years ago.
Here is a bouquet of the Gondwanaland flowers, readily available in florists throughout the world because of extensive flower exports from both South Africa and Australia.
This post is part of the Floral Friday Fotos meme.
Wednesday 14 July 2021
RAINY WEATHER
Tuesday 13 July 2021
ST KILDA
Monday 12 July 2021
SEASONAL
and also part of the Blue Monday meme,
and also part of the Seasons meme.
Sunday 11 July 2021
Saturday 10 July 2021
DUSKY MOORHEN
and also part of the Saturday Critters meme.
Friday 9 July 2021
Thursday 8 July 2021
FLOWERING GUM TREE
Wednesday 7 July 2021
TREE TRUNK
Tuesday 6 July 2021
EATING OUT POST-LOCKDOWN
Monday 5 July 2021
WINTER
and also part of the Blue Monday meme,
Sunday 4 July 2021
APARTMENT BLOCK
Saturday 3 July 2021
DOG AT CREEK
and also part of the Saturday Critters meme.