Saturday 30 January 2010

Wednesday 27 January 2010

Monday 25 January 2010

Sunday 24 January 2010

Saturday 23 January 2010

Friday 22 January 2010

Wednesday 20 January 2010

Monday 18 January 2010

Sunday 17 January 2010

Kaleidoscoped Butterfly 1


I've always loved kaleidoscopes and always been fascinated by butterflies, so I decided to scan into Photoshop the patterned underside of one of the Australian butterflies in my collection and play around with a kaleidoscope filter. Here is one of the results.

Saturday 16 January 2010

Wednesday 13 January 2010

Big Buckle


While it's been too hot to venture outside I've been doing a lot of tidying up, sorting out magazines to chuck, books to pass on and items to find new homes for. I have no idea where this big buckle came from. The tongue is a bit rusty, but the rest appears to be made of brass. Now I wonder what its story is and where it came from.

Tuesday 12 January 2010

Monday 11 January 2010

Vegetable Cover Up.


With a temperature of 43C predicted for today, we decided to cover up as many of our precious vegetables as we could to protect them from being fried to a crisp in the sun.

With old sheets and pieces of fabric bought for future dyeing exercises we covered up most of the more sensitive plants. Hopefully it will be worthwhile and the vegetables can be saved!

Sunday 10 January 2010

Saturday 9 January 2010

Friday 8 January 2010

Thursday 7 January 2010

Wednesday 6 January 2010

Tuesday 5 January 2010

Monday 4 January 2010

Sunday 3 January 2010

Parsnips!


Although the very thin root ends of the parsnips won't be worth peeling and eating, the tops will be delicious. Such long roots are the result of having new raised vegetable beds with very friable soil. Amazing!

Friday 1 January 2010

New Butterlies for a New Year


To start off the New Year here is a recent photo of some Imperial Blue butterflies emerging from their chrysalids. These butterflies aren't particularly rare where they occur, but to see them as they emerged, fresh and new was very special. These butterflies not only prefer a particular type of wattle tree, they only pupate on selected trees of the species. There were quite a few trees where I found these emerging butterflies, but there were chrysalids on only one or two. The Chrysalids are attended by a particular species of ant, so it may be that those ants only visited these few trees.