I was feeling mauldlin and a bit tearful yesterday after receiving sad news. Then a message arrived from my Mum and Dad.
Feathers Appear When Angels are Near # 1
Author: El Rolyat
Lustre: A Haiku
Sunset’s golden kiss,
Ripples dance in liquid fire,
Nature’s soft embrace.
Thanks to Moonwashed for this week’s prompt
A Promising Looking Sky
”Clouds are the sky’s imagination”
– Terri Guillemets
When Two Become One
With a devastating drought raging and the future of your species hangs in a delicate balance, life must go on …
A Bad Hair Day
Today’s bird of the week is the Great White Pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus), a relatively new permanent resident along our part of the river since the establishment of a large commercial fish farm up river.
Silent Sunday – May 26
Come Tiptoe Through the Tulips with Me
A Very Angry Chameleon
This guy was definitely not a fan of mine!
Jack and Jane
It was a cool summer evening just after the rain
A toad was out walking – she calls herself Jane.
Hopping and jumping and humming a tune
In her head she was thinking “now, where is the moon”?
The clouds had rolled in, they had covered the stars,
She couldn’t see Jupiter. Or Venus. Or Mars.
It was too dark to see, she may have been lost
To the pond she must get, whatever the cost.
As she stumbled along, her mind full of beaus
She leapt startled, something cold brushed her toes!
“Oh my! What was that?” and thinking the worst
She turned and she stared, her heart fit to burst.
“I’m too young to die! Oh please leave me be”
But as her eyes focused in the dark she could see
Two eyes stuck on stalks were staring right back.
T’was a small slimy snail – he calls…
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Flower of the Day – Pretty in Pink
As far as I can tell, there is only one Pink Jacaranda (Stereospermum kunthianum) in the park.
Each spring I keep a look out for it tucked away – inconspicuously for most of the rest of the year – in a small dip just as you enter through the east gate.
The Pink Jacaranda is not just a pretty face. According to Wikipedia it is traditionally used for a number of medical ailments, including pharyngeal affections, leprosy, subcutaneous parasitic infections and other skin afflictions, venereal diseases, diarrhoea, dysentery, and as antiemetics. However, WebMD cautions that there is no real evidence to support any claims of its efficacy for these condidtions.
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