Five women in belly dance costume posed in front of a cycad garden
Another pose, all holding veils spread behind them
A shot of the ladies taken without their knowledge. They are all adjusting their costumes. It conveys their easy friendship and confidence with each other
Today we danced for residents of one of our local nursing homes.
Crowded kitchen bench. Appliances behind 12 bottles of homemade sauce. A very large Jarrahdale pumpkin sits to the right of the jars.
Just put the last lid on this batch of sauce. Tomato & capcicum I grew myself. 🌱
Going to have a break now, then later I'll chop up some pumpkin, in preparation for pickling tomorrow.
Market Day 🩵💜
Flame of the Forest. A brilliant red column of flowers that resemble the pea type flower
A grouping of the flowers
A close up of the flowers. They don't show up particularly well because the red is so vibrant
A curved concrete path. The Flame vine grows above it and the flowers cascade down along the path.
Winter in the tropics
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Awesome!
Yum!
Thank you, I'm definitely gonna try this one
Good night for the Kooks family tonight, we got SAUSAGES!!
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'Portrait' of my prize winning pumpkin with the 1st place card in front
Same pumpkin from another angle
The prize winner and my other entry beside. There is a fork between them for scale.
Winna, winna,
Chicken dinna!
I entered this beauty into the Mossman Show this weekend.
I have a video here on BlueSky pollinating it.
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Laughing Kookaburra family on the ground. On the edge of the firepit. Looking at the 'disgusting' pieces of lamb I offered this evening. (Yes, it was fresh). I am a disappointing human tonight 😆
Even Sooky Pants turned up. And turned away 😆
Another Laughing Kookaburra, sitting on the bird feeder in front of a large blue cycad.
This is Mumma. Also unimpressed with the offering, and chose to eat worms instead.
A Laughing Kookaburra sitting on top of my rain gauge in the garden.
This is Fatguts. He is not happy with his offering this evening. But he ate it anyway because he wasn't going to let anyone else have it!
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View from our front porch. Potted plants line the edge of the floor boards. In the background there are large cycads, aloes, palms, and a boab that is starting to go dormant.
Morning cuppa
I've never seen butterfly snapdragons before! They're so pretty. Do they still do the 'snap'?
Thank you! I was excited to find another successful pollination this afternoon
My veggie garden and Peter's cycads I'm the background. I have a lot of seedlings in that are too small to see in the picture, so it looks quite empty
Different view of my veggie patch. In this one you can see where I've been digging and scratching
Lil watermelon, and plenty of weeds! I don't really think I'm going to get much more in size, it's out of season. It is self sown but I hand pollinated it. (I can't help myself)
4 week old corn seedlings, flat leaf parsley behind, and a capcicum plant I grew from the seeds an old fella gave me. He was pleased to hear they're growing.
A bit over excited to see the sun. I took these pictures in the middle of the day. I've mucked around with the brilliance so you can see better.
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Capcicum are hungry plants. Make sure you give them fertilizer, weakly weekly.
You can never have too many! Make tomato chutney/sauce and bottle them😋
Market Day!
A simple illustration of the sun. It has a spiral in the centre that I particularly like
Happy New Year fellow Southerners
Great colour!
In the foreground, a leaping fire in a brick firepit. The pit is surrounded by a lush lawn. The lawn is bordered by a retaining wall and garden. The middle ground is the house, with the garden's creator relaxing in the sitting area. The top of the picture has a bright blue sky laced with cloud cover.
View of the garden from the sitting area.
Peter has had a very productive couple of weeks. The landscaping in high traffic areas is almost complete.
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We in the Rest Of The World will never let that happen.
May I remind you of the Tiananmen Square Massacre
I'm in tropical Australia, we haven't had mangos set for two years! I'm devastated and hoping that this year conditions will be right
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Clipping from a newspaper featuring our garden. There is a big photo showing tree aloes, palm trees, cycads and dracaeneas. The headline declares it's "Botanical garden glory"
My Mum has been sorting and came across this. It's our garden in Geraldton, over 20 years ago.
Another pot I find as interesting as the succulent!
Dancing in two lines, back to back, everyone swaying to their right.
Dancing in two lines, everyone with their left leg crossing in front of them in the kashlima step. Left hand on hip Right hand behind head
Two of my dancers hamming it up for the camera
Another of my dancers performing. Left hip pushed out, arms extended from elbows to the side. Her orange tassel belt swishing to the side gives movement to the picture.
The Mossman Shimmy Mob Team. This year's shirt is bright pink and we have teamed it with white bottoms and hot orange accessories. Also some purple for contrast. We are posing in front of some of Mossman's beloved Raintrees.
Photo taken as we are dancing, we are close together in a circle all looking into the circle with arms raised above our heads.
We are dancing, standing two lines. The Raintrees dominate the picture.
Me! Striking a pose one hand on hip, the other raised behind me. I look like I have a palm tree growing out of my head. lol
#shimmymob is a movement that has become very dear to our hearts. We are determined to lower the statistics of domestic violence. Don't wait for physical violence, recognise the signs of emotional abuse.
