Showing posts with label Norfolk Island Pine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Norfolk Island Pine. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Reflections & sea mist

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Reflections Palm Beach

With the big seas closing the beaches, and its being a public holiday, even though I went late to the beach, there were still a lot of people at the rockpool and I didn't feel comfortable with the thought of leaving my camera with my things as I swam. So I walked the beach instead.

Walking north and looking landwards against the sun, there was a shroud of sea mist, giving a wonderful light.

But coming back, I saw this reflection in the smooth water surface of a receding wave. Or more to the point, I didn't. I saw the wonderful smooth surface. Only when I had captured the image, did I see the reflections.

Is this innate or is it learnt, this failure to observe the intangible and the evanescent?

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Sunlight through sea mist and Norfolk Island Pines

(Both images best viewed large. Click on them, then go to All sizes and click on large.)

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Norfolk Island pine in bloom

A heterogeneous harvest of photos this morning.

Araucaria heterophylla. A common planting on Sydney's Northern beaches, it characterises the space between sand and road.
Here it is in flower.


A good time for fishing: raining with a low but incoming tide.


Hydrangeas on Whale Beach Road, Whale Beach.
Christmas is definitely upon us. But by Christmas time, these beautiful flowers, like most hydrangeas directly exposed, will have been burnt by the sun, after rain.



It was raining when I went for my swim and bucketing down by the time I got home.

Thursday, November 29, 2007

View from the base of Barrenjoey


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Originally uploaded by MargaretsFamily

View across the sand dune regeneration area looking across the Pittwater towards Kuringai Chase. Barrenjoey, Palm Beach, NSW.


The dark areas are poisoned boneseed, the grey - dead branches of living teatree. The bright green is the bright new growth of acacia sophorae, some norfolk pines to the left, and coastal banksias at the back.

I like the patterns of colours of the vegetation.

http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Chrysanthemoides~monilifera

http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Araucaria~heterophylla

http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=in&name=Acacia~longifolia+subsp.~sophorae

http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=in&name=Banksia~integrifolia+subsp.~integrifolia