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| 1st August (first day of Sprinter (winterspring)). Friends of Yosemite Sam. Saw these native peas, Bossiaea sp., (Yosemite Sam look-a-likes) on a bushwalk today. |
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| 2nd August Get Your Teeth Into That. |
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| 3rd August Am I Not Pretty Enough. Spent Magnolia flower. This photo is from my soft side, not like yesterdays dark side. |
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| 4th August No body wanted Angie. |
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| 5th August Slivers of gold in a dark alley. The sun catches a ledge and downpipe in an alley way between buildings in Parramatta that are earmarked for demolition. |
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| 6th August I think its run out of 'Puff'. Old dis-used steam locomotive at the Zig Zag Railway, Clarence NSW. |
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| 6th August Can anyone untie knots. |
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| 8th August Visiting the wineries at Mudgee, NSW. This was at the Pieter van Gent Winery. |
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| 9th August What are these mysterious bumps in the grass between Mudgee and Cassilis, NSW A: Emus |
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| 10th August I can never tell if I'm coming or going. Western Plains Zoo at Dubbo, NSW. |
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| 11th August The village of Lue (near Mudgee NSW) no longer bustles as it once did. |
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| 12th August Have you brushed yours today. Hanging above dental clinic at Narrabeen. |
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| 13th August Remains of The Bush House or Folly. The Bush House (built in the 1870's) is part of a terraced 19th century garden complex containing the remains of a glasshouse and rose garden, located in the grounds of the Gladesville Hospital, South Campus (once known as the Tarban Creek Lunatic Asylum). |
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| 14th August Looking like a small match, each bud on this banksia flower head promises a plentiful summer nectar flow for the local honeyeaters and lorikeets. |
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| 15th August Men trying to get close to Jack. |
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| 16th August Hurry up, I can't wait much longer. A Masdevallia Orchid at the St. Ives Orchid Fair Show. |
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| 17th August Not sure what it means, but I guess it says it all. |
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| 18th August The cameras and some of the accessories I have used through the years. |
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| 19th August Veronica visits the garden. |
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| 20th August This gun,and others like it, once protected Sydney. This is at the Georges Head Battery,Georges Heights (near Mosman). |
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| 21st August 3 Peas, but not from the same pod. The flowers of 3 native peas growing in the garden. |
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| 22nd August Jack and Gel. A nursery rhyme that went horribly wrong. Foot note Jill couldn't make the photo shoot. |
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| 23rd August Caddie. A Cadillac on show at the Maroota Muster. (the white spots are raindrops) |
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| 24th August A dragon passed by. |
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| 25th August Spring is close when my orchids start to bloom. |
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| 26th August Wildflowers in the garden. (another day at home) Clockwise from top right Dianella sp., Leptospermum (Tea Tree), Epacris longiflora and a Hovea sp. |
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| 27th August Orchid in the wild. Went looking for native ground orchids this afternoon. I found 4 species but the only one in flower was this lone Caladenia sp. |
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| 28th August Mandarin Sitting at a Window. Seen in a window while visiting a friend at RPA Hospital, Camperdown. |
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| 29th August Dragon on a post. Saw this Eastern Bearded Dragon (Pogona barbata), as a bonus, while on a 'Rare and Threatened Flora' bus trip today. |
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| 30th August Another day but a different dragon. Eastern Water Dragon (Physignathus lesueurii), seen near the Grotto Point Lighthouse in Sydney Harbour National Park. |
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| 31st August The last day of our southern winter, tomorrow we burst into Spring |
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| Project Photo challenge for 08 Aug is Beaty's Birthday |
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