Posts by ChrisW
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Any signs of rain where you are?
Nothing doing yet around Gisborne, but here's an expression of light rain on December grape leaves, for the memory and encouragement.
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Up Front: Card on the Table, in reply to BenWilson,
Thanks, Ben. Tried to come up with a photo-response, but ...
best not clutter Emma's place with more lurid photos.Fact is, the good eye's been disconcertingly singular lately, the other one problematic.
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Fallen walnuts accumulating in the tree's late afternoon shade a few days ago. There's been just enough moisture to keep the shady grass green, but not so much that it grows too fast. But yes, now the early (mostly dud) walnuts have fallen it's time for a complete pick-up and sort then mow the lawn for a smoother surface to ease the harvesting of the main crop.
Ontoit today - the first bucket of good walnuts sorted. Heaps more to come.
A bucket of walnuts has hidden depths.
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Walnut fruits generally form in threes - two at least of these ones getting ready to drop clean nuts. A pair of lacewings lurk on their common stem. The axillary (arm-pit) bud is the makings of next spring's male inflorescence/
flowers.Closer look at the lacewings. I get the impression they're so closely aligned they finish each other's sentences. Enlarge with second click and the upper one seems more than just lurking, looks like a suspicious looking character in disguise as a miniature stealth bomber?
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Small crop of japanese anemones this year due to lack of water
But beautifully formed.
Not so aesthetic by conventional reckoning, but the walnut crop is looking good in other ways. Plenty of ground water for the deep rooted.
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Sure!
Why, thank you, thank you, thank you!
As the manuka stems against ponga and rimu foliage look great, so the butterfly against manuka. Bonus I hadn't anticipated - in addition to the bark and branching pattern rhyming with those of the monarch's wings, also the light spots through rimu at right in the first one cf. the wing spots.
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Sofie - I'm reminded, meant to comment long ago, I love the look of your monarch butterfly against the manuka bark and form. And knowing your original files are big high-res ones, I wonder if you could show it enlarged, crop a copy of your original full-sized file about like so?
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Gidday Tess - "since May 2009", you'll remember 'Are we there yet?' well too no doubt.
That photo of the lurid sunrise up the page - I was, to be a little trite perhaps, thinking "dawn of a new era" and all that when I took it yesterday morning, as well as "wow, what a lurid sunrise". But it was notably only 10 minutes later that white smoke poured forth from the chimney on the Sistine Chapel. So the dawn of a new era indeed.
My favourite duck (known as Ninety) showed up to enliven the reflections, perhaps channelling St Francis. -
Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Nora Leggs,
just unidentified finchy type birds
Goldfinches like this one, I'm pretty sure.
"The gayest of the finches" said my 1970s Field Guide, revised and updated edition (!) -
The symbolism seems very graphic – I know that feeling well!
Didn’t contribute to the thread above, though about 90% of my journeys are by bicycle. Thoroughly ambivalent on the merits of high vis, have an el cheapo, seem to forget to wear it mostly.
