emus

There was just enough rain to make parts of the road soft so Daddy emu made the big print and the emulet made the ones below.

Dam cleaning

This dam is now bigger and deeper than it has been for a long time. Those clouds didn't turn into rain and the dam will be filled with run off from the pasture watering.

strange spiders

This is a net-casting spider (of the Family Deinopidae = evil eyes), stick spider or ogre-faced spider. He dropped his net when I moved something out of the way to take the photo, his habitat is meant to be forests anyway, not my lounge room, and this prey catching net is a night time activity. It is either a very mixed up net-casting spider or something else entirely.

The breeze was wafting gently and after this photo I tried to get another but the breeze blew the spider too close and we both got a fright, spider scuttled off and so did I.

too late

The ABC Riverina held a photo competition called:

The National Trust Heritage Festival photo competition.
The trees don't have to have historic significance but if they do, tell us about them. We want to see trees which are important to your local environment, trees which play a role in sustainable living, trees as living history

...so on Friday I thought I'd take and send in a photo of the little Battling Boree on Bundure, only to find the competition closed midday on Thursday.

freezing on a hot day

Dry ice to freeze the brands
Clip hair, paint with meths then apply brand for 40 seconds. About six weeks or so the hairs that were black will have turned white - hopefully.