Treasures in a landscape

Tide is out,  water is clear, wood is sculpture

The great egret captured in the rippled water, stalking its morning prey

Winter landscapes

Winter in south oz is charecterized by glorious sunny days with cloudscapes to fantasize about and temperatures that require beanies, gloves fingerless and scarves…these will be interspersed with grey, rainy and windy days…days better off spent inside by the fire reading a good book.

Taken through my front window latish on a cold and rainful day……

Taken on a bike ride not far from my house …a great egret taking off. Oh for a better lens ! It was  somewhat shy of my attempts to photograph….

winter beauties

Winter beauty…..luminescent greens

More of sojourn on KI

These gorgeous entities are everywhere …often in family groups nestled in amongst the gum trees. They say they only grow a couple of cms a year.

They are remarkably hardy plants able to survive the fiercest of bushfires…..their symmetry leaves me open mouthed at times.

They are prolific and after a bushfire  you can see them pushing up through the soil along the sides of the road…any cleared space really.

Weekly photo challenge – fleeting

Another day at the beach

On my morning  walk ….

Beautiful colours and shapes

Unimaginable diversity…….so good to see

Along the cliffs @ KI

Weekly photo challenge – signs

This sign was on the back wall of a public toilet in hilo on the big island….I was bemused having never see such a comprehensive list of nots!

Sojourn on KI continued

The cliffs close to where we were staying were made of jagged limestone,  worn into gloriously fantastical shapes at the whims of the wind, the sea and salt spray

The vegetation hugging close and dense, footholds tightly twined into the rocky sand

Colours vibrant and lush

Fleshy, succulent attuned to this harsh yet wondrous environment