Today I walked from Lake Mackenzie to Parsons Track with a friend...to see the Richea scoparia. Such a variety of colours!

Some alpine magic for you...from the Vale of Belvoir, Tasmania.

Some late Christmas Bells up on Blandfordia Hill...flowering much later this year due to the heat anomaly over Antarctica which is giving us a perpetual winter here in Tasmania

Very gently "death-wish chickie" is herded back to the others.... this chick has been in so many scrapes...yesterday evening I found it cheeping in the centre of the paddock when its siblings & mother were all tucked up in the nest for the night! It does not think Mum's instructions apply to it!!!

First berry breakfast bowl for the summer....even if it is just 5 degrees C!!!!

Some lovelies from the west coast heathland of Tasmania..... First: Prasyphyllum pulchellum

Yesterday's fabulous find made by friend on our walk in Rocky Cape National Park: Green Comb Spider Orchid (Caladenia dilatata)

Peonies in the Paddock...NW Tas

Went duck hunting today... got two ;)

We found a different version of Caladenia transitoria yesterday in NW Tasmania... normally greenish yellow...we found a large colony containing both green-yellow ones and beautiful peachy pink ones!

More lovely orchids from NW Tasmania

Rocky Cape National Park - Postman's Track was a lovely walk yesterday.

Arthur Pieman Conservation Area was an orchid wonderland last weekend!

Arthur Pieman Conservation Area lovelies from today's outing. A very windy day!

This is Tasmania in mid spring lol...yesterday at Cradle Mountain

Something erratic from the west of Tasmania :)

Some nice fungi finds from yesterday's forest scramble in the Dip River Forest Reserve.

Last season I saved seeds from my 'green dragon' broccoli and my red cabbages. This year I have a few green dragon broccoli, a couple of red cabbages and lots of cabboli... or should that be broccages?

Imagine having a Productivity Summit with the theme of Resilence and failing to address first up the impact on Australian life, community, landscape and infrastructure of existential twin crises of global heating and biodiversity collapse. Instead it’ll be Env is a handbrake on ‘jobs and growth’.

Waterfall wetness....

Lazy rainy afternoon... sitting with a pot of French Earl Grey tea... perfect to settle in the 11 barrow loads of mulch I spread around the garden earlier today!

Road trip to Waratah and surrounds...

How cool is this decorated scallop I found on the beach this morning?

Here's some waterfall joy for your day :) Dip Falls, NWTas.

Morning beach visit today...there's finally been enough rain to get the little creek started and to make the river run dark with tannins...

This is why I post mostly about fungi or wildflowers...the natural world!

It was a Cortinarius kind of day today... found 16 different species!! These were 4 of the more spectacular ones...

Well...another day in my local Rocky Cape forest looking for fungi and we found a really odd one. It appears to be an asco on a stipe!! At first glance we though "another mauve Cortinarius.." but then we realised... no gills!! I've set a couple up for spore prints overnight.

Have been away on holidays but back home and into the forest already lol...these from Sunday

More fungi from Hellyer Gorge today...

Stupendous day hunting fungi in Hellyer Gorge, Tasmania! Some stunning finds took our breath away! First Herecium coralloides...a whole tree stump of them...over 20!

Found some cool things on the local beach this morning!

Big fungi day in the NWTas beech forest yesterday...found some beauties....

More fungi delights from NW Tasmania

Today's run was on the local beach and there was heaps washed up after the recent bad weather! I had to keep stopping to rescue stranded sea stars!!

Today's fungi finds...

But let’s open up the Narrabri gas project /1

Fungi found at home today...

Autumn leaves

What to do on a frosty -2°C morning? I can't do much after Wednesday's shoulder surgery but there's a lot you can get done with one hand tucked into your jacket like Nelson lol Clearing up around my major trees to make them more resilient in a bushfire...and keeping me and the dogs warm!!!

Meeting the new neighbours....

Went fungi hunting a couple of times this week...we haven't had much rain...but enough to get things started at last!

On the beach today a juvenile WBSE took way too much interest in Finn. Finn's too big (I think!) for it to successfully attack but maybe it was recently independent & a bit too hungry!! I called the dogs in close for the rest of the run but it still followed the three of us for nearly a kilometer!!

Locals are very...um...friendly at my place lol....

Had to show my sister the turning of the Fagus - her first time visiting Cradle in autumn :)

Start of the burning season! Will be a while before I can light up the bush though...and get into this year's cool patch burning....4mm of rain really wasn't enough to wet the peat layer!

Sitting with cows is very relaxing!

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Can't wait to try my new chocolate fudge icecream...

Rocky Cape National Park was magnificent as always today...