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Can you see the face?

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382147) • Rockingham, Australia 15 Oct

While we were travelling the native shrubs were out in all their glory. We weren’t in the right area to see the best of the smaller wildflowers but some of the trees and shrubs were magnificent. It’s hard to do them justice in a...

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Gorse or wattle?

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382147) • Rockingham, Australia 11 Apr 23

The photo was taken in Mayo, Ireland, and shows a lovely stand of gorse/furze. It reminds me very much of our Australian wattle. Gorse belongs to the genus Ulex and comprises around 20 species of thorny evergreen shrubs. The...

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Small things can brighten your day

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382147) • Rockingham, Australia 5 Aug 20

One of my myLot friends, Jeff Moffitt (@moffittjc) wrote a discussion entitled ‘those-aha-moments-of-discovery (https://www.mylot.com/post/3388741/those-aha-moments-of-discovery) about not seeing what is right in front of your...

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It's wattle time in Australia

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382147) • Rockingham, Australia 26 Jun 20

We have two wattle trees down by our dam and I keep meaning to take a photo of them. Then, near the doctor’s surgery, I spotted a magnificent wattle in full bloom. I wrote about the wattle in September 2018...

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I might have spoken too soon - perhaps we do have cyclones here

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382147) • Rockingham, Australia 30 Aug 19

We have a big storm going on here at the moment – lots of thunder and lightning. After all my talk about us not having cyclones, a town north of us was hit by one yesterday and we’re being warned about similar bad weather tonight....

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Let me tell you what a wattle is

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382147) • Rockingham, Australia 29 Sep 18

Recently I wrote about our writing group member who won the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Award for unpublished novel. His book was first entitled ‘Blood on the Wattle’ but was changed to ‘Blood in the Dust’. The publisher...

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Our local writer has won a huge award

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382147) • Rockingham, Australia 23 Sep 18

I belong to a writing group in our small town although lately I haven’t been able to get there very often. Another member who doesn’t get there very often has been working on a novel for several years. All his hard work has now...

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wilbur smith adventure writing award

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The Baby Bird Drama!

jennybianca @jennybianca (12912) • Australia 30 Oct 07

A couple of months ago I posted a discussion about the native Wattle Bird nesting in our carport. She had not had success with her first two attempts at raising chicks, but a lot has happened since. With her third laying, there...

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Wattle Bird Nests in our Carport

jennybianca @jennybianca (12912) • Australia 29 Aug 07

Last year a Wattle Bird nested in our carport. She choose a crate full of camping kitchen equipment for her nest. When the eggs hatched, a rat got to them & ate the babies. Later, the mother Wattle bird made another nest in...

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