One of the sensations of our little Zoo is Flöckchen (little Flake), the albino roo.
It’s damn hard to take a picture because the camera has a hard time focusing on white (or black)
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Ice Swimmer has more rocks to show us and they are full of colour and pattern. Let’s go….
Details. ©Ice Swimmer, all rights reserved
This part of the rocks comes with stripey details.
Detailed Details. ©Ice Swimmer, all rights reserved
Here is a more detailed look on the details.
Decidous and Evergreen. ©Ice Swimmer, all rights reserved
Many of the broad-leaved trees were exhibiting their deciduousness while, the pines show their evergreenness all through the seasons.
Grain. ©Ice Swimmer, all rights reserved
The pattern is like figured woodgrain.
The Border. ©Ice Swimmer, all rights reserved
Humans are not welcome on the other side. Gulls and geese will keep watch in spring and summer. The dinosaurs were absent in October, but no human was seen trespassing.
In the next installment, we will have walked the path towards east (to the left of the last picture) and we’ll see something completely different.
The camels were doing something. We could not figure out whether they were fighting or about to have sex. The whole thing was slow and I hope at least they still knew whose head was whose.
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Our most recent addition are a couple of striped hyaenas. I’m sorry, hyaenas, but nature was really mean to you. Is there any other big mammalian predator that isn’t also really cute? None that I can think of, except for the poor hyaenas.
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The forecast is calling for warmer temps (+9º C!) over the weekend with rain. If it’s true, that should get rid of the rest of our snow and all the damned ice so that Jack and I can walk around our own block again. I don’t want to get too excited, though, because the warm is just a blip and not a trend. It’s supposed to turn cold again on Monday (-9º C!) and stay that way right through next weekend. Oh.
These photos were taken at Pittock Lake. The snow and the sand made these really interesting patterns and I thought I’d share a few with you. [Read more…]
It’s time for another walk with Ice Swimmer and he has more incredibly beautiful rocks to show us today
Surface. ©Ice Swimmer, all rights reserved
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Not Charly the Affinity author, obviously. He’s seriously getting old and everybody is dreading what lies ahead. He’s one year older than #1 and our kids and our friend’s kid all grew up with him herding them.
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Fun with the wide angle lens
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This is a colour photograph. ©voyager, all rights reserved
Drizzle.
Drab, dull.
Dung, dirty.
Depressing.
Damn.
Lofty has sent in a few photos from his daily bike ride up and down Mt. Lofty.
The final four pictures of Mt Lofty. The first two are of the summit with its own little wooly cap on the morning the cool weather arrived, lastly two predawn shots over a local vineyard. I circle around the mountain on my bicycle from the south west via the east side and then up the northern ridge, then after a rest at the summit descend down the south ridge at a rapid pace.
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Nimble-footed, ©voyager, all rights reserved
Well, the sun has gone back into hiding and the world is all gloomy shades of gray again. It’s also a double gravity sort of day for me making our walk in the woods more of a slow plod than a walk. Not so, though, for the nimble-footed creature who left these tracks in the snow. I think he hopped, skipped and jumped all the way along with an energetic flourish and a twitching tail.
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Our amazing Thuringian billy goat. This domestic breed almost died out in the 1980s and was saved by adding some Swiss goats. Our herd is part of the program to save and stabilise the breed.
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Ice Swimmer’s here and today he has rocks to show us. Be still my heart…..
Shaped by Ice Age. ©Ice Swimmer, all rights reserved
The rounded forms of the rocks come from the Ice Age. The bottom of the glacier was full of rocks embedded into the ice that was quite flexible under the huge pressure, grinding the rocks into rounded shapes. [Read more…]
Nightjar has sent some wonderful photos of a wee little spider which you will find below the fold.
This month I haven’t been able to go out with the camera much, but today while gardening I came across this tiny flower spider on an African Daisy and immediately thought I had to share it. Later in the day I checked back on it and it had already managed to catch a little fly! Sadly I couldn’t take a photo because by then there wasn’t enough light available to photograph such a tiny subject with my gear. I will surely keep an eye on it from now on!