Photo/s of the day. 21/06 and 22/06

[moonvoice]

Grevillea in Flower
(21/06/2010)





Daviesia
(22/06/2010)






Conostephium; Pearl Flower





Common Forest Heath - which is amusingly, not that common at all in the bushland behind our house.





I suspect it may be a wildflower called Salt and Pepper - but don't quote me on that.





Menzies Banksia shoot - the tree has been knocked down and showing no signs of life for a year and then, on one place on the entire tree, this emerged. It's a shame the tree will be killed again. :/





Astrolobium xerophyllum - this plant has no common name.





The tiny web of a Trampoline Spider





Menzies Banksia blossom, post flowering - feels as soft as velvet, too.





The bushland doesn't care about looking pretty for you. You have to look hard in this to find all the things that I found. :)





Like this Hibbertia, the most cheerful of flowers.





And this baby Drosera, won't know if it's a bridal or a rainbow until it flowers.






ETA: I walked through too many spiderwebs to get these photos. TOO MANY.

Comments

[malignlibra.livejournal.com]

Your photography, and art in general, never ceases to amaze me. I would LOVE to spend just a day photographing the things you see, I think it would open my eyes so much to life around me.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

*blush* Thank you. I do love taking my photos of things like plants and insects. I'm sort of obsessed with it. Poor Glen, basically, if he comes with me bushwalking and I have a camera. 'Oh look at this! Look at this one! Oh look, here's the twentieth identical flower that we saw before, I want a photo again!'

Glen groans, rolls his eyes, and practices what can only be considered 'epic Zen patience.'

[jeliza]

Those are just spectacularly weird and lovely.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

I love the local wildflowers we have here, we are so blessed.

[shadows-wolf06.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. I love the droplets of dew on the flowers and plant life. They almost look like little glass flowers and such.

Also, the common forest heath almost looks like crystallized snowflakes the way the dew is shining off of them.

Awesome catches, very beautiful. And a very true lesson that all can learn from- unless you look close enough to find the true treasures in life, you'll miss those most precious and simply settle for the more glitzy and obvious ones...

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Yay dew! All the dew was gone like thirty minutes later. I was out five minutes after sunrise to get those photos. I couldnt' sleep this morning.

Common forest heath looks really amazing, it does look frosted with fluffy snow from a distance, and the flowers are small and delicate.

[shadows-wolf06.livejournal.com]

::sighs:: I envy you Aussies. You guys get the coolest flora and fauna around. Or you guys at least rank right up there.

I have another friend in Perth who keeps telling me I should visit him. Had I not started having weird, uncalled for panic attacks at 1500 meters up, you better believe I'd fly there for a holiday in a heartbeat.

North America has some really cool wildlife, too. It just gets mucked up more often than not by man, and it seems like more and more of our wild places are getting smaller and smaller or have disappeared completely.

And for that? There are no words...

[silverjackal.livejournal.com]

Great photos, as always. I really like the Salt and Pepper, the Astrolobium, and the close up of the Banksia. If you didn't know, you could think it was woven textile. Very cool.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

The salt and pepper, if that is what it is, will look very pretty in flower too.

Astrolobiums are *awesome*, they flowers are actually insanely robust, despite looking all pretty and fuzzy at the end. It's like a plant making hundreds of tiny plastic flower cups. If I did flower faerie art at all, they'd all be drinking from astrolobium blossoms.

[amethyst-clan.livejournal.com]

my gods, these are breathtaking pictures!

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

*blush* Thank you. :)

[findingruby.livejournal.com]

wow, these are all beautiful but I especially love the first one.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

The first one is in our garden. *pats it* It looks like it's going to send up another twenty more flowers and it's its first year blossoming in our garden so yay! :D

[little-foxy.livejournal.com]

Those flowers are gorgeous and you just done see them elsewhere in Australia... Mind you they don't grow well here, bit too damp and humid for them... sigh which is a shame as they are lovely.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

The grevilleas grow elsewhere (the one in our garden), but yeah, pretty much everything else is 'Australia endemic,' and then a lot of it is 'South-Western Australia endemic.' We're not a global biodiversity hotspot for nothing.

Of course in ten years we're probably not gonna be anymore what with drought + global warming + dieback and stuff.

[ariestess]

Gorgeous, gorgeous flowers!

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

I really love them. Most people don't even notice they're there. People who live here all their lives, even.

[ariestess]

I love flowers of all kinds... Especially purple ones, so I tend to see them a lot...

[lupabitch.livejournal.com]

....are you very sure you live on Earth?

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Oh no, Australia isn't on planet Earth. I have no idea where we are.

*grins*

[lupabitch.livejournal.com]

No wonder Americans have such skewed views of you, then. We have enough trouble keeping track of people on this planet, nevermind a different one. Sorry for the cross-cultural interplanetary inconvenience.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Oh I like it! Everything else is so exotic in comparison! :D

[singingnettle.livejournal.com]

Aw. Wonderful. Especially that first photo. Love the drosera, too.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

The drosera are so pretty when they flower. The bridal one has white flowers, and the rainbow one actually only has pink or purple flowers (but not both), so... 'rainbow drosera' is kind of an interesting name. Heh.

[pyewackettt.livejournal.com]

They're all very beautiful. :) I kinda like walking through cobwebs... it makes me feel lucky to have been the first person there that day.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

I'm not a fan. Too many venomous 'like to kill you' spiders in Australia. And while some of them don't weave webs, some of them do. I'd probably not mind it as much if there was almost no chance I'd need antivenom (i.e. if I lived in the UK instead).

[mermaiden.livejournal.com]

Your pictures very often make my day--this one is a case in point--wooooooooooow~ <3333

[xmetanoiax.livejournal.com]

The baby Drosera is ADORABLE.

[redsixwing.livejournal.com]

I like the Daviesia. I like it a lot. How you get such close shots, with such perfect focus.. it's just amazing, is all.

Also, spiderwebs. Brrr. It makes me want to do the Get-It-Off Stomp just thinking about them.

[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

Great photos - lots of alien Aussie lifeforms!

The spiders webs sound a wee bit scary...