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Thursday, 1 November 2012

Thursday; substitute;


LV Paper bag; that will have to do, if you can not afford the real McCoy!

Smile, a bag is a bag; enjoy your day.




©Photo, my garden, Ts

Wednesday, 31 October 2012

Wednesday; travel to...



Flying over the Flinders Ranges;

Places  in Australia with odd names; I leave you the pleasure of looking them up on the Australian map,
enjoy a nice trip. The names are pronounced in English!

 Oodnadatta,
Pepegoona,
Ararat
 Arkaroola
 Tantanoola

 Wipipee



Above the Flinders Ranges;

 Farina
 Ballarat
 Thackaringa
Taltabooka 
 Murrindindie;
Kalioota
 Winininnie
 Beltana
The Bight,
 Mallee's 



Flinders Ranges a fantastic landscape.

 Darling Downs,
 Yudnapinna,
 Tidnacoordininna,

 Mallacoota
 Baroota
 Yankalilla;
Wallaroo
Wirrawilla
Booboorowie 
Oodla
Wirra, 
Orroroo
Wycheproof
 Wollongong
 Never Never,

Sounding in each mountain rill,
Echoing from hill to hill…
In the lonely, silent places
Men lift up their glad, wet faces,
And their thanks ask no explaining -
It is raining - raining - raining!

Names of  towns used in CJ Den's famous poem  "And it's raining, raining, raining."

C J Dennis, Poet; Journalist, was born in Auburn, South Australia, on 7 September 1876,  he preferred to be known as Den.

©Photos Ts.

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Tuesday, 30 October 2012

Tuesday; Nature's wonders;


Honey Bee collecting nectar and pollen; My Garden;



Lavishly golden,
 liquid sunshine held in tiny, waxen  chambers. 
 The  fragrance of  flowers and harvest, warmed by sun, wind and rain,
 nectar collected diligently, 
transmuted into  the sweetest  of sweets,
 for sticky, little fingers to lick and savour,
  this wonderful alchemy of  nature. 


©Photo/Text Ts



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Monday, 29 October 2012

Monday; Aahh...




Aahh… close your eyes and dream of an island in the sun;
 idly succumb  to a delightful dream;  a closed book in your lap,
 the soft tap
 of  a slow day rolling by. Aahh…



©Photo/Text Ts




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Saturday, 27 October 2012

Sepia Saturday 149;



Aptly described as ‘gifts from the earth’, thermal springs occur in many parts of New Zealand. Most are scattered throughout the Taupo Volcanic Zone in the central North Island, but some are in areas of extinct volcanic activity such as Northland, the Coromandel Peninsula and the Bay of Plenty. Others lie in non-volcanic areas, along faultlines, particularly in Westland and North Canterbury. They are formed when rainwater seeps down through rock towards the heat source deep beneath the surface and then rises again. The hot water dissolves minerals in the rock, and the mineral content as well as the temperature of hot springs varies according to locality.

http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/thermal-pools-and-spas




 Mud is bubbling;


Water Steaming;


Hot sulfurous lake;

©Photos/ Ts Rotorua, New Zealand;


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Tuesday, 23 October 2012

Tuesday; nibble; Jaboticaba fruit.



  JABOTICABA
(Myrciaria cauliflora)

The Jaboticaba is  a tree native to Brazil. Fruits are formed directly on the stem and branches. The fruit has a fairly thick purplish black skin, with a sweet white flesh inside. It  is best eaten  fresh or can be used to make jellies and drinks.




A multi-branched evergreen tree, the jaboticaba  is a decorative although slow growing tree. Up to four times a year, the small yellow-white colored flowers followed by the fruit, appear directly from the trunks, limbs and large branches of the tree.  Jaboticabas might begin to bear fruit anytime from 4 to 10 years old

Jaboticaba trees are mostly raised by seed. The seeds are polyembryonic each seed giving rise to 3-4 seedlings.

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Pop the fruit into your mouth, squeeze out the fruit pulp and discard the skin;


©Photos/Text Ts.