Amazing tree

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Originally uploaded by julannahennessy

This amazing tree is in the reserve, can you see the hand? It's not just my imagination is it? Do you know where the tree is? Have you seen it before? Mind you I didn't see the shape properly until I took the photo. Now I think it's so obvious I don't know how I missed it all the years I was near it.

Lorikeets

This wasn't originally why I planted apple trees, but seeing as I'm really bad at keeping the bugs out of them and therefore don't get to eat any myself, this is definitely a second best reason for having them.

Rain & bridges

I would have liked to get some pics of how the rain affected the area, but that's the problem with rain, you don't want to go out in it to take pics! Ropes Creek rose quite a lot. I think it's highest was about 8 feet under the bridge on Forrester. If it hadn't stopped raining it could easily have flooded again. I think it's been over 10 years since it flooded last. When it does go the bridges on both Forrester and Debrincat go under about the same time, but now the bridge is up at Ropes Crossing we should be able to get in and out of the burb easier - it's higher than the other two. The planners did plan for once! We had to go all the way to Mr Druitt to get over the creek last time.

Hot

I wonder what the temperature was predicted to be? On my front porch it was 45 deg C at 5.30pm. With my portable air con unit it was 33 deg C in the lounge room.

Bushcare in Tregear Reserve

Bushcare Calendar

2009 Meeting Locations

7th Feb and 7th Mar

Tregear Reserve Bushcare Group
Wilkes Cres, Tregear
9am - 12 noon

"Don't forget to wear a hat, closed in shoes and long trousers."

For further information please contact Council's Bushcare Team on
9839 6074

Dragonfly

This pic wasn't straight forward either. I was surrounded by dragonflies the whole time I was down by the creek, but they move too fast. No way I was getting a pic. Then when I was walking away I saw a flash of redfly pst me and land on the ground about 3 metres away. I couldn't see it on the ground but I knew it hadn't moved so I just stood still, zoomed my camera as far as it would go, pointed where I knew it stopped and snapped on auto. It was only when I got the pic onto the computer that I saw the dragon fly. Cropped the pic, sharpened (even on auto the focus wasn't very good at all), and here for your enjoyment is one of the many draganflies from Ropes Creek.


I've never seen them with their wings forward like that. Because I couldn't actually see it I don't know if it was moving it's wings and that's where the camera caught it, or if it was simply sitting with it's wings down.

ps, Hello Cathi!

Spiders and Topp Twins

Another pic from Tregear Reserve. The flower this spider is sitting on is maybe 2cm across. It's more luck than good management that I got this pic. I did know the spider was there but it ran under the flower when I took the first pic. Amazingly, for such a small critter, it ran back up on top of the flower just as I was ready to take the next one. I haven't looked it up yet to find out what it is, when I do I'll post it's name.


Has anyone local seen the huge glaring yellow light that's been put up, presumably to highlight the sculpture at the entrance to Ropes Crossing on Forrester Road, but instead it's angled into the eyes of drivers coming up Forrester? Pretty bad. I think the RTA might be the best people to report that to?

We went to see the Topp Twins at St Marys Leagues club last night. They getting better as they get older. The whole room was cracking up most of the evening, and you could tell the ones who'd never seen them before, they laughed the hardest. My cheeks ended up sore from laughing so much. And on top of that they are excellent musicians and amazing yodelers. Wonderful night.

Kangaroos

I walked in the Reserve on the weekend, took a few photos. I'll put a few up here.


They look so free, as if they fit, even with the bike frame in the tree, as if they belong, as if it's their space - but of course they aren't protected either. There's no fence since they left the ADI site. And there's dogs roaming.

Day off

So, after the lovely cool break in the weather last time I wrote it got insanely hot again, and now we're having another cool break! Happy Australia or Survival Day, whichever way you go, I hope you're all having a lovely day. Public Holiday for me, I'm not at work, makes me happy!

It's been so hot and dry I've been watering parts of my garden with grey water. Bath and washing machine water pumped out of the washing machine using a long hose. You have to be careful with that though, you'd have to be very sure of the pump on your machine. My daughter blames pumping grey water for her washing machine breaking down. Mine is pretty strong I think and it only pumps water down hill. My plants are very happy for it.

Lovely weather

See what going back to work does to me?? It's been so long since I posted!

Tregear has been very quiet at my end, the only thing I noticed was a boy on a dirt bike being seen by ambulance people in the reserve across the road a couple of weeks ago. I didn't see what happened, but he didn't have a helmet on of course. Of course it's soooooo much safer riding a motorbike in the reserve than on the road that, of course, no one needs helmets over there.

I'm loving this cool change. It was actually a touch chilly in the back yard this morning.