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Eastern Spinebills In Kangaroo paw blooms currently capturing my heart at the Australian National Botanic Gardens. Two gorgeous Aussie Natives. Look at this tiny bird with its entire beak down the throat of the flower gathering nectar. The display of Kangaroo paws at ANBG is starting to fade now but the mass plantings were absolutely stunning a few weeks ago. I've been making it a habit to

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Over the decade or so that we have lived here the range of bird life has greatly changed. From the smaller rose robins, silver eyes, black birds and eastern Spine-bills that were frequent in our earlier years. We have had a fairly constant presence of Magpies, Currawongs, Pigeons, Rosellas, Noisy Miners cockatoos etc This year however the the rise of the predatory birds has been noted. This is

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This is a post about Value but not about management of Finances, I'm here to remind you that money is not the only currency you possess! Have you considered time, energy, emotion and mental space as forms of currency? I really believe these are things we could invest more wisely, for better returns on self love and general wellness. Take a few minutes to think about

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Image Details :- Eastern Rosella Taken Using my Canon 650D Lens:- 70 - 200mm f/4-32 Focal length 200mm 1/250, f4, ISO 100 About this picture Taken in my backyard August 2016 This was a Female Eastern Rosella on the ground with one young. Eastern Rosellas have been visiting frequently for the last week or so. We had 12 in the back yard at once one day, which is the

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Think about this. We frequently tell ourselves that we 'should' do various things. 'Should' lives in Expectation. So, we set ourselves up for a lot of negative internal dialogue by not meeting this expectation of self, or having a desired outcome we are not attaining, Right? I don't think anyone consciously does this. Yet, its like we are all somehow taught this manner of

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This week we headed out to Cotter dam on the afternoon I heard it had reached its new Capacity for the first time and was about to overflow. The Dam was quite tricky to photograph with any level of satisfaction but I did get some OK partial shots of the water falling with a total storage capacity of 76,200 million litres since the upgrade finished in 2013. That has me feeling

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I don't feed Currawongs, I generally see them as scoundrels. Well I don't feed most birds but I just let them take what they want from the fruit seeds etc. But there are a few I do feed; my two Magpie friends Mama and Little one and this Currawong, Baby. Baby first started coming around when I fed the Maggies about a year ago I guess, He speaks in a sweet low coo and has never warbled or

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Male Golden Whistler with Dinner. Sometimes I want to write, but I just don't know what to write. Its not that I'm not Authentic in what I do share but I certainly censor myself. I'm an introvert, cautious about what I share and who I open up to. I don't want to draw too much attention to myself. My Children deserve privacy. Details of my Day to day life seem so mundane. I think

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  We Recently took the kids out of school for a couple of days and all went camping. One of our adventures took us to pebbly beach on the South Coast of NSW . On the way back up from the beach to the car ... by the way look at this gorgeous National park so lush ... so anyway, I was snapping some pics of the kids and the ducks that were to my right then as we rounded the last bend a bird

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A defining moment in my journey as a photographer. So this morning I realised that when it comes to an event I need to choose if I am going as a Mum/person or as a photographer. Today I went as both and was not happy with my photographic skills and outcomes or my Parenting skills. Most revealing of all was the realisation that while I can photograph other things occasions or events I am

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Its been such a long while since I have shared any of my lovely Yarny creations! I'm so often working on my hexagon blanket or Dolly cardigans, for the Blythe Girls that I'm quite sure it would bore you to see the same things often and so I choose not to share them here. However I do still get that itch for a new project and I whipped this flower Puzzle ball up for my nieces first Birthday

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Its that time of the year again. We are being visited by the Vulnerable species 'Superb Parrots". Around mid Summer when the fruit is plentiful they promptly arrive, and have done for the last few Summers, though it was actually Autumn the first time I saw one. I remember seeing it clearly from the Kitchen Window, perched high in bare branches. His Bright Yellow face leaving me feeling

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They still stick close together for at least the first week out of the nest. I loved seeing these two little tails poking down from a nearby branch when I realised they had left the nest.

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I was lucky to notice this treasure in my garden. I never got too close and tried to take a photo every day from when I first saw them. In the beginning one chick hadn't opened its eyes. They grow so quickly! Such a privilege to watch. There is more from Day 8 yet to come.

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On Thursday I spent a couple of hours with a group led by Steve Parish, the session was called a leisurely walk and talk, though they actually walked at quite a cracking pace, maybe because it was raining?  I didn't monopolise Steve's time or garner his opinion. I hung back a bit seeing things I usually do with one ear on the conversation and tips that were being offered. it was

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On Monday afternoon a Swarm of Bees landed in our garden. I knew that with a Nosy little dog this was a disaster waiting to happen so I called a local bee keeper who said he could come to collect the swarm the next morning, for a small fee.  The next three pictures are from that first afternoon, the bees had formed a large loose U shape on the fence and were congregating under

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On Sunday I headed off early to the Australian National  Botanic Gardens ( anbg) and spent a couple of hours wandering around with my Camera. I'm trying to spend at least 1/2 hour a day out in my own garden with the camera but its always interesting to get out of my comfort zone and have different subject matter. I like going without the kids as I can get off the main path and go at my own

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These Orchids are a part of the Gardens research collection, not usually on display but were available to be viewed until the 6th of October. The scent as you entered the hothouse was overwhelming. I noticed not many people who came in after me stayed longer than I did. It was mostly quick in and out visits. The new lens that I mentioned in my previous post

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September 2015 We headed off to our favourite holiday haunt again this week and took the Mr along as well. We decided to do the Sanctuary wetlands walk and are so happy we did, as we were rewarded with Platypus action viewed from a board walk which was just amazing! We also saw a pair of black swans in the reeds and we suspect they may have been building a nest.  The photo below is

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This Mama comes down to chat and forage and she knows me now, like our Possum. They are Natives free to come and go as they please but ours just the same. Today I was in the right place at the right time. I'd been photographing flowers and I could hear her signing over the fence as she fossicked about, but once the rain started she decided to ask for a convenience meal and came to me.

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At a passing glance you would not know that the wings of insects cast shadows; New Foliage of roses is sharp; Wild Violets have fur and Flowers are not always apparent. This is how I observe things. Its the little things that capture my attention, its the detail that draws me in. What appears to be ordinary can actually reveal itself as extraordinary if you just linger a little

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Spring has me out in the garden working with Gusto. Our once beautiful garden has been left seriously untended by us over the last 4 years and is over run with grass and weeds in the beds. This has bothered me slightly but really ... in the grand scheme of things, flowers still bloom and grow and I see beauty in those fighters that bloom dutifully despite the hardships they fight and

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Just popping in to share some of the photos I have taken over the last month, to let you know I'm still around. I'm having a bit of trouble at the moment keeping all my 'balls in the air' as they say, so blogging has been relegated to the back burner. I've mainly been re-photographing my Etsy inventory these last couple of weeks, not out in the garden as much.  I'm trying to update

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Last Month I got the itch to go back and do some more work on this Blanket. I ordered the rest of the yarn I think I will need to finish it and started working up little hexagons. I created a half hexagon to fill the gaps on 2 of the sides. I've yet to work out how to fill the triangular spaces on the other sides, I'm not making all of my sides flat yet. I still need to

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