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Most people who follow me know I serve up a bit of a mixed salad of shots coming from my rather catholic choice of interests and subjects. Today is no different with four shots, about the last from our country drive to Toogoolawah in the Brisbane (River) Valley earlier this year.
I rather like Art Deco design and this old urban block of flats, no doubt made from asbestos cement sheets or fibro as is the common terminology in Australia stands in a Toogoolawah back street. Despite its rather austere look, enough Art Deco showed through to capture my attention.
It was probably built for local rural or timber mill workers back in the period and still has welcome across its old walls.
Farrell Flat (formerly Hanson) is a town in South Australia. The town is located 20 kilometres (12 mi) east of Clare and 22 kilometres (14 mi) southwest of Burra on the former Peterborough railway line, in the Regional Council of Goyder.
Once the heart of a thriving farming community, Farrell Flat today is largely a satellite town to the larger towns nearby. It has retained its own identity, with a functioning hotel, cafe and meeting house, engineering business and grain silos.
The town was surveyed as Hanson in 1870 and did not officially become Farrell Flat until 19 September 1940. The name Farrell's Flat had been in use for some time, this being the name of the railway station. The nearby town of Davies was officially renamed to Hanson on 19 September 1940.
The Flat osyter (Ostrea edulis), is a species of oyster native to Europe. Also known as Colchester native oyster, mud oyster, or edible oyster.
Shells are oval or pear shaped, white, yellowish or cream in colour, with a rough surface showing pale brown or bluish concentric bands on the right valve. The two valves are quite different in shape and size, as the left one is concave and fixed to the substratum, while the right one is almost flat and fits inside the left.
I was up on the Skagit Flats in Western Washington a week ago. The Skagit River was running high, so all the eagles that hang out there had come down to the flats. Almost every farmyard with a tree had an eagle in it.
PENTAX K-5 • 80 ISO • Pentax DA 15mm F4 ED AL Limited
B+W ND 1000 filter
Shutter Speed: 10 sec
La Lauch • Haut-Rhin • Alsace • France
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A little tip. When lying flat out on your stomach, on the edge of a cliff top, taking photo's of a rather scruffy looking flower/weed thingy,
a) be as quick as you can, and b) check the area for ant nests first!!!!
I understand that this is actually Spotted Knapweed. I also understand that ants can get absolutely everywhere in a very short space of time....
Bonaire is part of the 'Caribbean Netherlands' (along with the islands of Sint Eustatius and Saba). They are referred to as the BES and are special municipalities of the Netherlands. Residents of the three islands are Dutch citizens.
Bonaire sits off the coast of Venezuela and along with Aruba and Curacao is referred to as the ABC Islands.
Salt flats.