Lizard in the grass

As Andrew noticed in my last post, I forgot to include the lizard I spotted during a walk around my parent’s garden. Well, here is the lizard, in all his glory. You can see he is a tiny bloke by the grass and leaves around him.
I have since found out that this lizard is a [...]

What a wind

Yesterday was a mad weather day. It started out calm enough but ended up with winds blowing up to 130km an hour. I was out in it nursing my cold. I know, that doesn’t seem sensible but I had gone in to work and left early to see the doctor. Little did I know a [...]

Merri Good Morning

Early Sunday morning walking past the market garden on the Merri Creek
This is a photo of the CERES run market garden early this morning with mist still in the air and dew on the grass. The garden covers a two and a half acre plot on the banks of the Merri Creek in Coburg.
This [...]

Tie a knot in it

Pipeline protest signage Yea Feb 08
I have travelled through Yea in Northern Victoria regularly over the last year and I have seen the anti-pipeline signs yelling from the roadsides. This is how I first became aware that there was trouble for the Goulburn River coming in the form of a greedy pipe. [...]

Christmas survival aid

Grassy, glassy water
Christmas in Melbourne can feel all rush, glare and glitter, sometimes bad tempered glitter at that. People are encouraged to go out and stress over presents, food and baubles for the table. Spend, spend, spend. Hustle, push and hurry. Urk.
Sometimes I just have to go to a quiet place. We went for [...]

Too hot today

An old dead gum tree by the Werribee River. It has elegant, silver bones.
This photo represents how I feel. It is so damn hot today. The forecast I heard this morning was 37 ° Celsius which I think is about 98° in Fahrenheit. The weather forecast online says 35° C. Either way it [...]

Vale old mollusc called Ming

St Kilda – Crossing the ships. Port Phillip bay is scheduled for deep dredging
Today I commiserate with the 405 year old clam that was recently dredged up off the northern coast of Iceland. He/she (I will call Ming “he”) was ”plucked” as one report so gormlessly put it from his habitat and so became the [...]

Rain yesterday

Rain heading into Colac in Victoria, Australia
Magic rain. I can’t believe how long it has been since I ‘ve sat in a car watching the rain. I relished the blurring details. Bright ripples peeled across the glass. The rain even pelted for a while stressing out the windscreen wipers who have become [...]

She is drying out

These hills are changing.

These photos were taken on the way back to Melbourne this weekend. I haven’t been up to the north-east for about a month and the change I saw made me feel that same old feeling. Last year was a long, hot brutal summer. There is still a month of spring to go [...]

Echidna finds a lifestyle property with a view

A shy little fellow I was lucky enough to spot near Strath Creek.
She or he was all set up for the night in the best nest an echidna could hope to find.
There aren’t too many properties on the market as self- sufficient as this one.
It features:

three sturdy trunk construction
ample bark bedroom
great natural colour scheme
glorious [...]