366 September 2020

Experimenting with my new camera (actually secondhand, from ebay). Happy with this result.

Surprised that I had somehow managed to change the aspect ratio, without trying... learning the ways of the new camera... out walking with our dogs. A flowery month so far...

Ist September 2020!

New South Wales, Australia Out and about, only my mobile phone with me :-)

Supermarket chain Coles has rolled out a new collectables range for kids that feature pocket-sized books, inspired by the Treehouse book series. The grocery giant partnered with author Andy Griffiths and illustrator Terry Denton to write 24 Coles Little Treehouse books.

Kookaburra, NSW Quiet Sunday. Gardening, mulching, shifting rocks...

in the neighbourhood. The light and colours appealed to me.

... a picnic, on the foreshore by the Manning River in Taree, New South Wales. The Manning River is a double delta river system with two openings, the only one of its kind in the southern hemisphere. The main mouth of the river is at Harrington with the second opening located at Old Bar. The river rises near Mount Barrington within Barrington Tops National Park. It descends 1,500 metres over its 261 kilometre course from the high upper reaches through the Manning Valley and out to the Pacific Ocean near Taree. visitnsw.com

Carpobrotus glaucescens is found growing naturally in coastal areas on sand dunes along the NSW and Queensland coast, north to Rockhampton. It also grows down into the east coast areas of Victoria. Pigface grows on the front of sand dunes and acts as a stabilizer where it helps to bind the sand, this allows more effective sand stabilizers such as spinifex grass to take a hold. "The name refers to its edible fruits, “karpos” meaning fruit and “brota” meaning edible in Greek. Common names include ice plant and pigface, so called because the flower resembles a pig’s face – an association that will require a high level of imagination!" wanderer.websoup.com.au/pigface/