Street reflected in a pair of board shorts.

Bulcock Street, Caloundra, reflected in a surf shop window, board shorts hanging behind.

Caloundra

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The Long Wait!

Things have been just a little chaotic "on this side of the keyboard" in recent times. In between a dose of 'flu, house renovating, not getting the kitchen and bathroom details, or the planting plan on paper, and the usual rounds of fiddling with switches on the City Daily Photo Portal and the other blogs, all the while hovering just above the point of falling stupendously behind on this photo a day thing, we couldn't imagine fitting in a visit to a nursery to get the rest of the garden underway.

A few simple strokes of the keyboard had a few hundred teensy baby plants from the lovely folk at Australian Plants Online at our door.  They don't come pre-planted though, which gave an excuse for even more procrastination on those other tasks.  For now like the parents of every newborn we tend to  hover over them watching their every move.  In a week or two we'll just stand back and wait for them to turn into beanstalks...  or forest.

Dicky Beach

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More holiday architecture.

Not entirely satisfied with yesterday's shot, I tried another angle.

The building with the yellow?  Now that is what was happening in the seventies.  I like the noughties version better.

Caloundra

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Timeless.

It's a warm but murky evening, and I don't have a photograph for the day, there's not enough light to show the building in it's modern white livery, so it ends up looking a bit "seventies magazine" perhaps.

Actually it is a bit seventies looking in bright sunshine as well.  Cheap buildings for cheap holidays, entirely vacant at the moment waiting for the next round of happy vacationers.

Caloundra

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Spied 'er

This little girl is a Saint Andrew's Cross spider (Argiope keyserlingi)  She's not a huge specimen as these things go, probably eight or so millimetres across the the shoulders (that's about three eighth's of an inch).  

The "shadow" is a male, who no doubt has been invited into her parlour for an afternoon in the shade of the leaf which glows above.

I must roll around upside down in my garden more often!

Dicky Beach

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Pandanus

I can't think of anything to say that's suitable for publication, so I'll just note that these are the aerial roots of a Pandanus palm, I liked the lighting, and leave it at that.

Dicky Beach.

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Cluster housing.

One gets the impression that each new building has to stand on tippy toes to see the beach over the one in front.

I can't wait for the next to appear further up the hill, but I'll bet no-one is anxious for the owners of the house to redevelop.

Bulcock Beach

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Not snow, with a small orange leaf.

Yes I could have cropped out the leaf, or faked it and positioned it in the composition "just so", but I thought I would see if it was sufficiently distracting to become the focal point of the photo.

Hmmm..   This is sand by the way, covering a timber boardwalk adjoining a concrete path.   Wind can move tons of the stuff, and I have no idea who moves it back.

Bulcock Beach.

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Back to nature.

I was taken by the faded colour of the stamen (I think that's what the red things are - not petals?) and then I noticed that at the heart of every flower giant ants were having their wicked way with the pollen.

Nothing more to see here, I still don't own a macro lens, and the telephoto was at home!

Dicky Beach

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Kite eating tree.

For those for whom the grammar is unclear, this is not a photo of a kite eating a tree.  The reverse is in fact happening.   A kite eating tree is a tree which eats kites, the species was famously discovered by Charlie Brown many many years ago and until now I thought it was some sort of exotic overseas kind.

Here a Norfolk Pine has obviously undergone some terrifying genetic mutation.

Bulcock Beach

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Ephemeral

This month's City Daily Photo theme is "Ephemeral", and there is probably nothing that fits that theme more than the constantly changing line of white foam on a beach near you.

Don't forget to visit the theme day portal at this link.


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On a clear day...

You can't actually see for ever, because there are too many little children getting in the way!

When the sky clears, it really clears!

Dicky Beach

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Abandoned.

The rain hasn't started yet, the sand is dry with the top blown off it exposing every little twig and stick that has laid buried for months.   I think if I hadn't rescued this bucket it may have been buried as well in a day or two.

Bulcock Beach.

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Deserted.

All it takes is a bit of miserable weather and they all stay home.  Even the lifesavers are sitting behind their glass door, but they don't have too many lives to save.

It's OK, they need a break after a couple of weeks of holiday crowds and perfect weather to boot.

Bulcock Beach

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If only I could fly.

Ducks and seagulls should be banned as photography subjects, because they just sort of sit there and say "cheese" when one turns up with a camera.

Every now and then though, I manage to get a shot that's in focus, so I use that as an excuse to post it.

Pumicestone Passage
Caloundra

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What is the attraction?

I suppose it's too windy to fly far, and there aren't any people idly discarding their surplus chips, so there's not much else to do but stand around and wait for the weather to pass.

Why do seagulls come out when it gets windy, and where do they go when the rain starts to fall?

Bulcock Beach

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Murky

How quickly things change.

We've had perfect weather for weeks on end; clear blue skies and warm sunny days, then this!

Seventy kilometre per hour winds, rain threatening but not quite arriving although theres and eighty percent chance it will be here tomorrow.  Two brave souls with only a zillion seagulls for company.

Bulcock Beach.

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Changing Times

Meanwhile, in the suburbs that change that I mention from time to time rolls relentlessly on.  Another old Asbestos cement clad beach house bites the dust in a most inelegant manner to make way for what will undoubtedly be a brand new (perhaps two) rendered block "home" with beachy timber trim.

It's just the way it is.

Dicky Beach

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The times they are a changin'

 The store in what was Dyer's Hall has closed. It's a sign of the times I'm afraid and there's no use getting all sentimental about it.   If one isn't prepared to support small local businesses, preferring the convenience and price of the large supermarkets, one mustn't complain when one morning one drops in to buy something and finds the the little guy has closed.

Just another building to keep an eye on in coming years to discover how and if it is repurposed.

Landsborough

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The Railway.

That's the railway station reflected in the window.   The Landsborough station was built around 1890, and the line is still a single track connecting Brisbane to the Sunshine Coast.   One day, very soon perhaps, someone will wake up and realise that our transport infrastructure isn't what it's cracked up to be!

Landsborough

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