Tag: Trees

~ Monochrome Madness, Trees ~

Monochrome madness this week is hosted by Sarah from Travel with Me and the topic is trees. Looking through my archives I see I have many photos of trees, we are surrounded by enormous trees where we live.

To be without trees would, in the most literal way, to be without our roots.”
Richard Mabey

I did take a few new photos at the weekend especially for this challenge. I’m not sure they would look better in green though!

Weeping willows overlooking the small lake

Taken at one of our favourite places to visit on a Sunday, Chapel Farm in the Swan Valley.

The trees above are our neighbours and provide wonderful shade during the summer. The only problem with these are the red berries that fall and become squished onto the tiles! After taking this photo yesterday I saw this cheeky fellow peeking through. It looks AI generated but I assure you it’s not.

My dear hubby attempting to climb to the top of the Gloucester Tree in Pemberton, but I put the brakes on, as I was too worried that he might fall.

Palm Tree on Samosir Island, Indonesia
Tree Stump somewhere in Western Australia

Playing around with photos with different editing tools is a lot of fun, I used Snapseed and the software on my S22 for these edits.

“Trees have a secret life that is only revealed to those
willing to climb them”
Reinablo Areras

Bamboo Forest – Melbourne Zoo

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A Beach Walk with Birds

After spending the last ten days practically housebound with the flu and asthma, I finally took myself off the couch and out for a walk. Time to get some fresh air into my lungs and stretch my legs and also gather some new material for this dormant blog.

I drove to the carpark along the river and decided to take a left turn so I could walk closer to the beach. After coming to the end of the trail I wandered off through some woods which took me back to the beach and I followed the beach around to the birdlife conservation area. I’m not sure why I’ve never done this before, but I’ll definitely be doing this again.

Trees for Cee’s Black and White Challenge, if you look closely there’s also a bronze sculpture for Marsha’s PPAC and a bench for Xing-Fu

A Pouch of Pelicans
A Bank of Black Swans
The Perth Skyline across the wetlands
Hop, Skip and Jumping for take-off
So near but so far!
Black Swan
Blue Billed Ducks
Red Capped Plover
FOTD – Hottentot Fig
PPAC

It looks like Spring is truly here and it was wonderful to get out in the sun once again.

Graveyard of Trees on the Beach

While we were at the Tanjung Rhu we took a walk along the deserted beach. In the distance I could see what looked like sculptures. When we got closer I could see they were massive tree roots. They were so intriguing I took a few photos. I like the way they had been left to their own devices creating natural sculptures.

There were some other interesting structures in the sea which we found out later were used as props for the Dutch Survivor TV programme.

Posted as part of Six Word Saturday hosted by Debbie at Travel with Intent

Art in the Forest, Northcliffe, WA

The featured image is titled ‘Treecycle’ by Cecile Williams. It is indeed made from recycled books, wood and screws.

These are more artworks that we discovered on our recent tour of Pemberton, WA. It’s an amazing trail of nature and art, cleverly designed to blend in with the natural surroundings of the forest.

‘Written on the Wind’
By Norma MacDonald

‘Sundew’
By Nat Williamson
‘Competitive Ground’
By Peter Hill
‘Whole, You Were Meant To Be Here’
By Lorenna Grant
‘Australia House’
By Cornelia Conrads
‘Rising From the Ashes’
By Kim Perrier

There is a whole community of artists and sculptors in this small town and you can read there story here.

Posted as part of Cee’s photographing public art

🍵 There’s always time for tea 🍵

Some very different types of trees for Becky’s Squares today. Taken on my recent trip to the Goldfields of Australia and Historic Towns.

I will be writing about this “ghost town” very soon!

🌧 From one week to the next ⛅️

Some magnificent trees for Becky’s TreeSquares – opposite my house. One in the rain taken from inside the garage! The other in the sun – one week apart. I love looking at these trees especially when I’m ironing.

Same but different

We have been having some very wet and stormy weather here in Perth, WA. The roads have been turning into small rivers as the drains don’t seem to be able to cope. Many of my neighbours have had flooding in their garages. We are not used to so much rain!

Stumped on Friday 🎋

I’m having a ball with trees for Becky’s July Squares and also Cee’s Trees or Tree parts. So I’ve gone out on a limb with these ones.

Does anyone know what the above tree is, it’s got me stumped

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~ 🌳 Life is Better with Trees 🌳 ~

Trees for July Squares hosted by Becky at The Life of B and also for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge – Water in Nature.

Not the prettiest but a life well lived! They still have their uses as perches for birds. Taken this morning on my walk around Lake Claremont, Perth, WA.

A Rural Father’s Day

This week Debbie has set the one word Sunday challenge as rural. As it coincided with Father’s Day I thought I would combine the two. It’s been a while since I saw both my parents, coming up to a year. I was lucky enough to have them both with me for almost five months last year, because of Covid they were stuck here for much longer than planned.

I asked them to artfully arrange themselves on some hay bales at a winery we visited

“I’ve got a hole in one”
“Tree Hugging”

Still like a boy!

Last on the Card March 2021

Brian from Bushboys World invites everyone to post their last photo of the month from their phone or camera. Click on the link for more info. Here’s mine

Somerville Outdoor Cinema

This is the outdoor cinema at Crawley, Perth WA attached to the University of Western Australia. It’s a fantastic venue to see a film outside, sitting under the stars beneath the towering Norfolk Pines. There is a pop up bar and a pizza joint that also sells other hot food.

I went on Tuesday with some friends to see “Dating Amber” an Irish coming of age story. A beautiful funny film that we all enjoyed. It was absolutely packed though and as soon as the doors open everyone rushes in to place pillows, cushions and throws across the seats to save for later and then rush off to the bar. Rather like the unmentionable people from a certain European country who rush out at 5 am in the morning to place beach towels on the sunbeds around the hotel pool.
At the cinema though when it gets dark people can’t remember where they’ve left their belongings and end up sitting way at the back instead!