65/366 Native hop
We have many beautiful flowers in Tasmania and one at this time of year is the Native Hop, a species of Dodonaea. Apparently, the root of this plant was boiled and then applied to sore ears of aboriginal people.
Author: Miss W.
I was a middle school teacher who retired in 2011 but still loves helping others. In my spare time I enjoy tracing my family history and volunteering at local library to help others with their genealogy as well as chatting with my friends around the world. But most of all, I enjoy travelling and visiting new places.
64/366 Beautiful monument
There are many people who go missing in Australia – so this garden was opened as part of Missing Person’s Week.
63/366 Wind damage
Lots of high winds along with the rain lately. Noticed this while out driving.
62/366 Fresh from the garden
As you know from previous posts, I have been growing some vegetables in my garden. These are the corn cobs I picked and cooked this week.
61/366 Ducks
In our street we used to have a group of three ducks wandering around. I noticed recently, this has expanded to about 15 of them and they love visiting the grass area of my neighbour’s property.
60/366 More rain
We have quite a bit of trouble with the water table in the area where I live. My next door neighbours in particular. This is typical of their roof after about 5 minutes of rain.
59/366 Footprint
When using computers, we often talk to students about their digital footprint. Many don’t know what it is, but once explained and show to them, they start realising that everything on the net is there forever.
But what about our footprints on the beach or in the wild? They also can stay there if we haven’t treated the natural world correctly.
58/366 Shades of blue
This is the view from my local beach. Now that I am retired, I hope to get into a routine of walking here every day. So far, I have done it twice, but not for exercise – taking photos instead.
57/366 May Gibbs
Many Australians will have read stories written by May Gibbs about Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, the gumnut babies. Well, I feel this is the sort of hat and hair worn by these characters. Maybe I will find some hidden in my garden.
56/366 Bookshelf
As part of my job with the eSchool is to create some global collaborative projects for primary school students and classes, I thought having a reading blog would be great. This year is National Year of Reading, so when I chose the theme for the blog, I needed to create a new header. I visited my old school to take some images of bookshelves which I could then use to create the header.
55/366 Who is sitting on my roof?
Came out of the local store the other morning and guess what was perching on my car roof? Had to stop and take a few images of this little fellow.
54/366 Who am I scaring?
Found a group of these scarecrows along the Tasman Highway between Sorell and Orielton. I think they were used as part of a festival held in the community earlier in the year.
