[Photos] Maralla (late August)
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moonvoiceThe orchids are just starting in late August. Not the cowslips or the donkeys, not even the enamels. But the blue fairy orchids (which I had never seen in person before).
But this day of bushwalking was mostly about how the sun drapes herself all over the land lovingly, filling it with glowing light.
A shaft of light
She picks and chooses who she illuminates
A swamp paperbark at sunset
Burnt
There's this lovely winding gloomy murky path through a stand of mallee Acacias that feels very much like the official gateway into the actual bushland itself. This is the end of it.
Green
About as green as it gets, post June/July
A grove of immature swamp paperbarks. Even young, they still feel powerful.
Autumn is the best time for fungi
This is a natural peephole that has weathered into a dead (and burnt) tree over time. It feels very liminal, but Glen couldn't resist waving on the other side of it when I went to get a photo.
Gumnuts
This tree has such an unusual lean that you can drape almost fully horizontal on it while staring into its canopy
The raggedy blossom of Banksia ilicifolia, beginning to age from cream to pink
I liked the way the sun touched the Balga grasstree in the middle there
Pheladenia deformis, the Blue Fairy Orchid. My first.
It blossomed near this paperbark.
The sun and a Casuarina (sheoak). I love the foliage of sheoaks, it looks like someone has feathered out the leaves with a brush.
Sun on Eucalyptus.
A tiny (tiny) bit of sun on a Paperbark
One of the many endemic Fabaceae members. I can't be bothered identifying it, but a lot of them just get called 'flame peas.' They are extremely poisonous to foreign animals, and their properties are incorporated into 1080 fox baits etc.
But this day of bushwalking was mostly about how the sun drapes herself all over the land lovingly, filling it with glowing light.
A shaft of light
She picks and chooses who she illuminates
A swamp paperbark at sunset
Burnt
There's this lovely winding gloomy murky path through a stand of mallee Acacias that feels very much like the official gateway into the actual bushland itself. This is the end of it.
Green
About as green as it gets, post June/July
A grove of immature swamp paperbarks. Even young, they still feel powerful.
Autumn is the best time for fungi
This is a natural peephole that has weathered into a dead (and burnt) tree over time. It feels very liminal, but Glen couldn't resist waving on the other side of it when I went to get a photo.
Gumnuts
This tree has such an unusual lean that you can drape almost fully horizontal on it while staring into its canopy
The raggedy blossom of Banksia ilicifolia, beginning to age from cream to pink
I liked the way the sun touched the Balga grasstree in the middle there
Pheladenia deformis, the Blue Fairy Orchid. My first.
It blossomed near this paperbark.
The sun and a Casuarina (sheoak). I love the foliage of sheoaks, it looks like someone has feathered out the leaves with a brush.
Sun on Eucalyptus.
A tiny (tiny) bit of sun on a Paperbark
One of the many endemic Fabaceae members. I can't be bothered identifying it, but a lot of them just get called 'flame peas.' They are extremely poisonous to foreign animals, and their properties are incorporated into 1080 fox baits etc.
