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On the far side of the ridge across the valley behind this grand gesture is a humbler sign, also mentioning the Golden Sun Moth. Placed here as it is, its back facing the major trackway and its front facing the suburbs this really looks like a branding exercise more than a commitment to the poor little endangered moth.
In the fine print this sign talks about an offset for the suburb of Ngunnawal. Elsewhere on websites, this same area is referred to as an offset for the suburb of Bonner. Neither claim really compensates for the destruction of moth communities when those suburbs were built. They haven't made more moths, just destroyed those that were there!
The topic of Ngunnawal is an intriguing one. There are contested spellings: Ngunnawal and Ngunawal. It's a bit silly really. This was the language group of the inhabitants of this land when Europeans arrived. As a spoken language without a script and no longer a living language how it is transliterated in the Latin alphabet is arbitrary.
When the Government of the ACT declared allegiance to one language group over another, one elder adroitly shifted themselves to the preferred group. This is an emerging issue with unwritten matters. As the new Government moves to mend fences with the peoples indigenous to Australia at the time of European settlement it faces the issue of affiliations and disagreements within the communities they seek to address. We hope for a resolution without bickering and posturing over superiority of one claim over another between families and so on. This matter has been a long time coming, 234 years so far, and it would be a shame if it ended as a grand gesture, like this sign, with just a bit of branding and fine print without substance.
All I had time to do. Had a very good day, as you can see.
PT: contrast, lighting, slight touch-up.
Fr: Tout ce que j’avais le temps de faire. J’ai passe une tres bonne journee, comme vous pouvez le voir.
Please be aware... Photos are just a hobby. I am not a coin / stamp expert. Posted titles are from my own recognition - what I was told - or from a quick search. No claim is being made of 100% accuracy, I make an effort to be as factual as possible. Some duplication may occur. Most items have little to no value. Your polite comments or corrections are always welcome.
Sian, owned by the Sian Project Group and residing at Kirklees Light Railway, exchanges tokens with my train as it goes to Kingsway.
I could use some information about these. This is just some of the set. The small coin is a quarter that I put in there for scale.
No camera needed. I just lined them up on my scanner.
The only nudibranch I photographed today (that other slug technically isn't a nudibranch). Found several, actually, without looking too hard, but conditions weren't great for photographing things under the water.
First, it was very windy, making for crazy distortion when shooting down through the surface of the pool. Second, the water was very murky, which I sort of expected; Scott Creek is the drainage for the area that burned in the Lockheed fire, and with the serious amount of rain we got last week, all that freshly burned hillside was making its way into the ocean.
Usually I clean up my photos when there is a lot of junk in the water, but I decided to leave it this time...
Once the Booksellers Tokens campaign of 2010 was over, we sent the adshells out to our bookshop members who wanted them.
Here's the adshell in place at Page & Blackmore in Nelson.
Page & Blackmore Booksellers Ltd. is an independent bookshop in Nelson, New Zealand.
In September 1998 they amalgamated two longstanding Nelson bookshops, Pages Bookshop and Blackmore’s Booksellers (formerly the ABC Bookshop) to form the current shop.
In 2010 they won THORPE-Bowker's Independent Bookshop of the Year prize.