Rolling in the grass.

OK, I'm not rolling in it and if I did it has the look of something itchy, but here's the flower stem of one of our native grasses, this one is a lomandra, I think of the variety longifolia, but then all the folia in grass is longi, that's what makes it grass!

Dicky Beach

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Colour in the shadows

I've never had a great deal of luck with Hawksbury daisies, or brachyscomb multifida to name them botanically.  The seem to grow well for a while, then die off in patches, but tonight, desperate for a photo before the sun left us completely, I snuck up on them in the near dark.

Then it was the turn of the internet to take it's toll.... who knows when today's "daily" photo will show up!

Dicky Beach

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When a plan comes together.

I don't mind admitting I have a haphazard approach to gardening which is in stark contrast to the care I take with the structure of the landscape.   Here is a step in the garden path, contrived to mimic beach side boardwalks, with a fern which just turned up of its own accord amid the gazanias.

Happenstance or happystance?

Dicky Beach

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Ignominious

What a sad ending for a fish whose only crime was to get caught.   I don't like the use of harvested "souvenirs" as objects for commercial exploitation, yet here we are, in our own back yard accepting a gift graciously and even taking some enjoyment as it hangs there gracefully aging.  

I wonder if my bones will meet a similar fate?

Dicky Beach.

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Lighting the way

You know that lunch is drawing to a close when the garden lights come on....

Spirit House
Yandina

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Gently returning from whence it came.

It may be a few years, it may take ten, but one thing is certain when you live by the coast it's only a matter of time before the roof starts to deteriorate.

I wonder once the process has begun, how long it will take to rust holes in the iron?

Picnic shelter
Moffat Beach

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View from a big lunch.

I'm not a food blogger by any stretch of the imagination, but on the odd occasion when we lash out on a splendid lunch, I'm not averse to taking a quick snap of the view.

The Spirit House
Yandina

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Catching Breakfast

Perfect water temperature, perfect air temperature, who cares if there are fish about?

Moffat Beach

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Glass Rings

It's still early, so the people selling glass rings at the markets haven't had enough customers to ruin my composition.     Then, I thought it would be wonderful to have just one piece missing.

Caloundra

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Custard Apples.

The custard apple is a native to Central and South America apparently, but I have to say I am grateful to whoever it was that started planing them here all those years ago.   They are one of my favourite fruits although that's possibly due entirely to nostalgia, as my earliest recollection of them is picking them more than sixty years ago in my grandparents' back yard.

How can I possibly be old enough to remember that far back?  (gulp!)

Caloundra

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What not to do with someone else's culture.

Dream catchers, I thought were the domain of some native American cultures.  Not so it seems, because here one's dreams can be caught in technicolour, and if one dreams big, well they come in sizes to match even the most obese nightmare!

Caloundra

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another fine shadow to get in the way.

Go early they say, when the light is perfect for photography.   It might be too if there wasn't this big flashbulb in the sky that always seems to be standing behind me.

Perhaps I should have saved this one for the "Shadow and Hightlight" theme day in June!

Caloundra

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Wanderlust windows.

If I had a caravan now, I wouldn't be able to resist the urge to make that one of my windows!   Actually it makes me want a caravan.

Caloundra

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Wooden Roses.

Wooden roses - scented to your preference - we liked "freshly sawn timber with a dash of dye", but that's just us.

Caloundra

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Poster

This was actually a summer shot, but it has that look of chill about it that will do just fine for May.

Moffat Beach

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A little slice of sunshine.

Just practicing for next month's theme day I suppose.

It may look all cool and wintery, but the temperature was twenty-six degrees at nine in the morning, and the spear of sunlight wasn't as welcome as one might imagine!


Caloundra.


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Something to contemplate!

I went to the Bulcock Street market this morning, and the nice folk at Goodmix gave me a taste of their delicious grain mix with a bit of yoghurt, and an equally delicious nutty grainy chocolate to follow!

I await the outcome with bated breath, although I'm fairly sure l won't be reporting the result!

Caloundra

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How quickly they grow up.

What are the chances that these are the same kids from two days ago?

Moffat Beach

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Moffat Headland a bit closer than usual.

It did occur to me that all my photos of the headland were from a distance, with that Norfolk Pine standing out against the sky, but there is more to it than that, much more.

Moffat Headland
Moffat Beach
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Early Days

While dad watches the surf.....

Moffat Beach

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Headland View

Yep!  It's a pandanus, but look beyond to the Norfolk pine and if you've been paying attention for all these years, perhaps you will recognise that the background is Moffat Headland!

Moffat Beach

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Cousin It.

It's actually a prostrate form of a she-oak,  Casuarina glauca, known also by its common name  Casuarina "Cousin It", so called after the character in that ancient television programme "The Addams Family".

Normally the eyes, if they actually exist, are hidden under all that hair, but it seems that a bunch of nasty fun-loving vandals have really given this lot a working over! Good on 'em I say!

Landsborough.

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And sometimes..

I wandered around the Maleny wood show for an hour or two  last weekend with my camera firmly zipped in my bag.

I guess the inspiration that oozed out of the pores of the place was for things other than photography.

Here's a roo, chainsaw carved by a bloke whose card I lost.

Maleny

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Totally delicious

Two blokes in vaguely Mexican outfits playing vaguely any kind of music during a break in the rain.

Maleny Wood Show.

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Hazardous to your health.

It's not just the diorama that has suffered inside the big pineapple.   The produce on display is perhaps just a teensy weensy bit beyond its use-by date.

It may even be safe to eat inside those lovely rusted tins, perhaps it's some sort of long term scientific experiment, but it may be a while before I could be convinced that this is the pinnacle of our rural endeavour.

Nambour

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Inside the Pine.

Sadly the interior of the Big Pineapple hasn't had the same love lavished on it that the outside has.  Here is part of what once was a glorious pineapple diorama.

I can't say which part, but it's not the ugliest!

Nambour.

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Proud as ever.

And there she is, the big pineapple, freshly renovated on the outside at least, giving some minor assurance that she may well be there for the enjoyment of yet another generation.

I wonder if it's been listed by the National Trust yet?

Nambour

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Still there.

I suspect it has been six or seven years since I last posted a photograph of the food court in the Big Pineapple.   I expected that it was not long for this world then.. who knows how it has managed to survive this long.  A testament to how little paint fades if it is left in the dark I suspect.    Of course there's little risk of wear and tear on the fixtures, but the fact that it's still there is something of a modern miracle.

The Big Pineapple

Nambour

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Mandys.

Gayndah Mandys don't seem as expensive as the Buderim kind.

We'd just had a coffee at a place where one could get Avoes on toast with Mushies, and had driven past a sign which said "Aggies Cheap" so why should we have been surprised when Mandys were on offer?

I suspect there will have to be hints given before all of the above can be translated by those who don't live around these parts!

Nambour

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It's nature's way.

When good theme parks go bad.

These days it costs nothing to explore nature(')s world, and if one is of a mind to do so, one can sit and watch ever so quietly as steel reverts to it's natural elements and finds its way back into the ground, where no doubt some thousands of years from now, someone will find a way of extracting it from the soil in a hitherto undiscovered process.

Nambour

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The Smell of Hardware

There can be no mistaking the smell when we arrive at our local hardware store.

Every day the sausages and onions sizzle outside, as charities take turns to raise a few dollars from customers rendered helpless to resist by the sizzle of the onion.

This is my take on today's theme "Smell".   For many others, some pleasant and no doubt some not, please visit City Daily Photo Theme Day.
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