spring is sprung

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the grass is riz
and I know where the birdie is.

The silver wattle is begining to flower.
Those native plants that die back to bulbs are shooting away and will fill my paddock with gold and blue before the summer

The wedge tailed eagles are doing their mating dance, swooping and barrell rolling and stalling. I watched a pair when i was at work on fri it cost me about 15 minutes. Worth every cent!

Its good to live in the mountains.

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Yep, definitely looks like the first signs of spring. Very Happy

What a blessed relief!

(Nice time in the city, too, dadpad.)

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Pictures!

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I was so enjoying the Aussies being in the clutches of winter.

The fact that they are warming up means the cold winds approach the real people -- the people in the correct hemisphere.

I would enjoy seeing the earth stop in its rotation and turn my hemisphere into one of eternal sunshine and happiness and cast the Aussies into an interminable ice age.

Is that too much to ask?

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Aussies deserve to be cold.

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You're wicked..... like an icy winter wind.

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Nah, he is trivial, like the drip at the end of a cold, wet, red, winter nose.

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All this nature talk brought to my mind a beautiful old verse....

some of you may be familiar with it....

The clouds above may kiss the sky,
the bird may kiss the butterfly,
The rain may fall and kiss the grass,
and you, my friends may kiss my ass....

Ah.... nature! It's so... natural!!!

Laughing

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gustavratzenhofer wrote:

Aussies deserve to be cold.

I hope your swamp freezes over in a few months, so there!

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in Just-
spring when the world is mud-
luscious the little
lame balloonman
whistles far and wee

and eddieandbill come
running from marbles and
piracies and it's
spring

when the world is puddle-wonderful

the queer
old balloonman whistles
far and wee
and bettyandisbel come dancing

from hop-scotch and jump-rope and
it's
spring
and
the

goat-footed

balloonMan whistles
far
and
wee

- E E Cummings

<sigh>

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msolga wrote:

in Just-
spring when the world is mud-
luscious the little
lame balloonman
whistles far and wee

and eddieandbill come
running from marbles and
piracies and it's
spring

when the world is puddle-wonderful

the queer
old balloonman whistles
far and wee
and bettyandisbel come dancing

from hop-scotch and jump-rope and
it's
spring
and
the

goat-footed

balloonMan whistles
far
and
wee

- E E Cummings

<sigh>

Swoooooooooooon.

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littlek wrote:

Pictures!

Stay tuned. Sometime over the weekend.

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I have spent the last twelve months making friends with the magpies that live in the big gum outside my house. Meat scraps, cut into worm-sized strips have proven very popular. They return the favour by knocking on my sliding patio door with their beaks and leaving me gifts of dead cockroaches. As swooping time is about to begin I will be able to test the theory that they do not see me as a threat.

(Hope they go for the rotten ankle-biters across the road, though!)

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http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a40/dadpad/spring/hardenbegia.jpg

Hardenbergia Violacea. (sarsperalla).

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a40/dadpad/spring/acaciadealbataflowers.jpg

Acacia. dealbata (Silver wattle)

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a40/dadpad/spring/varnishwattle.jpg

Acacia vernicifua (Varnish wattle)

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a40/dadpad/spring/redstemwattle.jpg

Aciacia rubida (Red stem wattle)

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"Wattle I do with just a photograph
To tell my troubles to?"

The winter is over, the spring is here!!
Capybaras don't like the cold.
Hope they invade your shack, Gus, looking for somewhere warm.
Hope they crawl up your nose!!!!

Laughing

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lezzles wrote:

I have spent the last twelve months making friends with the magpies that live in the big gum outside my house. Meat scraps, cut into worm-sized strips have proven very popular. They return the favour by knocking on my sliding patio door with their beaks and leaving me gifts of dead cockroaches. As swooping time is about to begin I will be able to test the theory that they do not see me as a threat.

(Hope they go for the rotten ankle-biters across the road, though!)

I have a dear friend who has a similar affection for her maggies, lezzles. She buys them premium minced steak, which is rolled into little balls, for their daily meal. (She tends to be a bit extravagant & indulgent toward any animals that cross her path!) :wink: Needless to say, they think they've found someone very special in D! Very Happy

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I find there is something very special about the 'friendship' of an animal. So maybe it only because of the food in many cases, but at least that's more honest than many human relationships.

The song of the magpies is, in my opinion, simply brilliant. I guess my ear is more attuned to the contralto rather than the screech of the soprano. To hear the musical phrases of the maggies early in the morning is magical!!

Must admit I wasn't expecting moving straight to 27 degrees!!

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lezzles wrote:

The song of the magpies is, in my opinion, simply brilliant.
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I think it's beautiful, too. Nothing else quite like that sound.

spring is sprung

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