28 July, 2009

Beach in winter

Sunday afternoon when I was walking along the beach between Cottesloe and Swanbourne I wondered what happened to the nice looking green weeds which were covering these sharp rocks last year? It looks like the sea has taken more sand than previous years and uncovered an agressive side of sharp grey rocks.
I am sure it looks a bit friendlier when the sun shines...

Bleeding sponge

During the beach walk Sunday afternoon at the beach between Cottesloe and Swanbourne:
The area where all the sand has washed away and left only sharp rocks is washed with seaweed a bit further north and I found this huge red colored sponge standing straight up as if it was wondering how it ended up there...

26 July, 2009

Shell

How old are these shells? They've gathered so much stuff in their grooves as well as other shells.

24 July, 2009

Ringneck feathers

Although we don't see them as often as we used to I find regularly some brigth yellow and green feathers of a ringneck.

20 July, 2009

Young chickens

Meet Dot and Ethel my new young chooks.

11 July, 2009

Buds


These beautiful flower buds are growing on an eucaliptus tree around the corner of my place. The brigth red is such a nice contrast with the green and have an amazing shape.

08 July, 2009

29 June, 2009

My winter tomatoes

When I had planted my rosemary cuttings in a long pot within a few days three tomato plants sprouted in between them, but as it's winter here I didn't believe they would survive but I let them. But apparently they like the cool weather as they develop nice fruits, as the caterpillars also discovered... I hoped they were hibernating... as the snails, they eat all my new plants, like I have only one rhubarb left... That's when I hate them! I collected several snails stuck together in making more snails into the green bin yesterday!

24 June, 2009

Mushrooms

Also from the old box, somewhere in the early 2000's in a forest in Holland during one of our walks were very tiny mushrooms growing under the trees.

19 June, 2009

These are Scottisch Highland Cows which were introduced to Dutch parks to keep the diversity in grasses and other fauna. This is in National Park De Hoge Veluwe in 2002 during a walk.

18 June, 2009

Spring in Europe

I was scanning some old photos and came across this one from 2002 when we made a trip to the Dolemites during early spring. This was on the campsite in the south of Germany.

12 June, 2009

Wet...

Wet

Yesterday it rained, a lot!

08 June, 2009

Centipede

A very small one.