… which is the name of our star. Also known as the sun.
This is a build that no longer fits in a frame. Stage Three of the most intricate build I’ve ever attempted.
Stage Four with Earth and the Moon to come. So far everything that should work, works.
Illustration from the instructions …
Never saw such a long one … this large Eucalyptus near Winstandly Road bridge across Bulimba Creek near where I live. This tree looks to be one of the oldest in the area, just be going on its girth as it’s at least a third wider/thicker than the nearest other ‘big’ trees. Wonder how old it is?
The mud-covered termite trail goes from a large fork near the ground to the canopy, possibly about five metres or 15-16 feet.
Makes you wonder whether the whole tree is impacted. Or whether the nest up top will one day proved a kookaburra family a nesting hollow.
Looking south …
Trying to peer around to the west …
One of these days, when I’m not just back from a walk I shall nip up to the ninth floor and be there next to the fire escape to see what I can see.
Azolla water fern are one of my favorite plants. Theyfix oxygen and keep the water underneath fresh.
Indtead I’ve got a great dying. I managed to keep them alive and thriving for 14 months, through moving house, twice changing water, mud, and water again. Now all dead and brown, I don’t know why.
Too cold? Not enough light? Water poisoned somehow? Fish nibbling on the roots? Only two fish remain and they are carniverous. It’s a mystery.
The chickweed are doing very well, thank you.
All these vibrant hibiscus are flowering at the moment in the old gardens adjacent to the residential village where I now live …
Most of the residents living in the old village have gone but their gardens live on. Seems to me from this show that hibiscus are hardy and forgiving.
Gossiping, what the world lost when the authoritarian impulse took against the power of women.
Talk is power.
— Read on aworkinglibrary.com/writing/gather-your-gossips
Streets and streets of stratocumulus in my sky today. These are lines of ordinary sheep IE cumulus clouds parading close together in lines.
It’s said they don’t, but sometimes do, produce rain. They graze the skies between 2000 and 6500 feet high.
Two thousand feet? That’s only 609.6 metres!
They’re a low cloud. These are the ones that you bump through while in a plane on the way down.
Stratocumulus has seven variations which we’ll come to as they are seen. The most famous, howver, is a stratocumulus that presents as a ‘roll cloud’ a long tube, that appears in Northern Australia in September and October.
This phenomenon is called the Morning Glory. Seen it anyone? I know there are some Australians among you. I’ve never seen it despite spending a few months in the area in the 1980s.
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