Old Owl's photos

Press Z for a better view (in my opinion ... YMMV). Esplanade Bus Port, Perth, WA.

Happy Fence Friday to everyone. May your day be full of joy and your weekend be restful and fulfilling. Kayaks stored on the edge of a canal in Mandurah.

Happy Wednesday Wall, everyone. May this bright blue building cheer up your day. Biggen it up by pressing Z.

HBM, everyone. Let’s hope that wherever you are you can sit and contemplate the joys of the world (those that are still to be found). These benches face Mandjar Bay. The sculpture here has six faces showing paintings representing the six seasons of the Nyoongar calendar. Mandjoogoordap (now called Mandurah) is home to the Bindjareb people of the Nyoongar nation. The six seasons have variable lengths since they relate to weather patterns and natural occurrences rather than to fixed dates like whitefeller seasons. We’re currently in Bunuru - the season of adolescence, which is the hottest part of the year, lasting from early February until late March or early April. It is sometimes called Second Summer.

Happy Fence Friday, everyone. I hope your day is productive and exciting; and your weekend is restful and calm. This footbridge spans part of the marina in Mandurah, leading to Dolphin Quay on the left. I walk across here every morning at about 7.45 on my daily constitutional. Yesterday's weather was rather dull for a change, though by about 9.00 a.m. it had reverted to its normal bright blue sky with not a cloud to be seen. Wunnerful! Probably better seen large by pressing Z.

Clara Bow? Theda Bara? Louise Brooks? The shadow over the left window reminds me of hair across the eye and thus of a film actress from the 1920s. First thought was Veronica Lake (but she didn't have black hair). Help me out here, guys, lest I begin to obsessively trawl the interwebthingy and end up in a padded cell and have only a few friends who will shake their heads sadly at my pitiful state. It is actually a wall next to a restaurant in Dolphin Quay in Mandurah. The shadow is from an awning above. Happy Wednesday Wall to all and sundry. Enjoy your day whatever you're doing.

HBM, everyone. Sit down and enjoy the view .. though not on this bench. Whilst the view of this wide bay may be wonderful (and it is, I assure you), the various seabirds have also enjoyed sitting there and have left evidence of their incontinence. When the rain comes some time in March or early April the bench may be cleaned by the downpours ... for a while at least.

"Like a vision she dances ..."

White-faced heron. Mandjar Bay, Mandurah.

Nankeen heron (AKA Night heron). Stingray Wharf, Mandurah WA.

HBM to all. May your bottoms rest on comfortable benches and your day be calm and gentle. This is in the Wheatbelt town of Dowerin in WA. There are a number of benches along the main street, all of which are bright red. Note also the tin dog on the wall to the right. Again a number of dogs appear throughout the town, most of them with a front paw extended. This is Tin Dog country, named after Tin Dog Creek just outside the town where, according to folklore, miners on their trek from Perth to the Kalgoorlie goldfields (about 600 km) stopped to camp and eat on their journey, and where they left their empty corned beef tins. Just outside the town is a large statue of a tin dog ("Rusty") designed and built by students from the local high school in 2004. UPDATE WITH PiPs Three PiPs are in the top left edge of this picture: the first is of Rusty; the second is of Rosey, created in 2020 as a female companion for Rusty; the third is a tin dog affixed to a litter bin and doing what dogs do to such structures. These pictures were taken by She Who Must Be Obeyed and I give her much thanks for her permission to use them. Many thanks, too, to the delightful and caring Ecobird for helping me by telling me how to add PiPs. This was most necessary for I am an owl of very little brain ...

Mandjar Bay, Mandurah. HFF, everyone. Let your weekend bring you peace and joy (or at least a break from the daily grind). (Press Z to see it bigger.)

HWW to everyone. I hope your week is a good one. This is part of a sequence at the base of walls in Bridgetown, WA. This one is at the entrance to the post office.

Stingray Wharf, Mandurah. Not the best photo, I'm afraid. The scene was some distance from me and I was shaky having run/walked some distance on an increasingly hot morning, plus my iPhone skills are rather rudimentary. The bird on the right is, of course, an Australian pelican; the one on the left is, I think, a Nankeen heron (sometimes called a night heron in these parts). I took this and walked on ... They were all still there, in more or less the same positions when I passed by 45 minutes later on my return journey. Now THAT is patience. I hope they were all rewarded by a feed from the estuary waters. Gosh, I love this land.

HBM, everyone. I hope you're sitting comfortably. (For those of us of a certain age with an English heritage, that phrase about sitting comfortably may bring back memories. Nothing to do with this photo, of course; just whimsy on my part. Sorry.) This haven is in Balingup, a small settlement in Western Australia.

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Have a Happy and safe Fence Friday, everyone. Keep warm (if you're above the equator) or cool (if you're down here with me). These are Australian Ibises, commonly (and derogatorily) called Tip Turkeys or Bin Chickens after their penchant for scavenging food in waste bins. It's a shame really, as they are very useful in gardens and farms, using their long curved beaks to forage for grubs in the soil. We (Mrs Owl and I) are visited daily by one we have named Libby who fossicks around the bushes and plants in our garden.