Author Marianne Broug ◦ A willow tree that was struck by lightning last year.Most of the top was split off.I feel the tree still carries the angularity and shock of that … like it’s still ‘screaming’. Wonderful thick fog this…
Author Marianne Broug ◦ I present my collage of a number of the Typical Leafhoppers, Family Cicadellidae that I have seen in Belair National Park. They are all very small. I’ve only included the ones of a similar shape ……
Author Marianne Broug ◦ I sometimes wonder … when we’ve finished wrecking the planet … when we’ve finished trampling all the beautiful creatures that only wish to live … when we’ve finished … I sometimes wonder … what will survive?…
Author Marianne Broug ◦ I frequently make up various collages etc. with the aim of education or for simply getting folks excited / interested / enthused about insects and our natural world. This is a collage of some amazing fly…
Author Marianne Broug ◦ Yesterday I saw this gum leaf backlit by the sun and contrasted against the dark trunk of a Eucalyptus obliqua (Messmate stringybark). I thought it was simply magic. Such wonderful shapes. So often people think leaves…
It has become a little tradition here at Ausemade when we look forward to the New Year and we talk about our Western Bowerbird that still has his bower in our backyard… after a little reminder popped up in our…
Author DaQua ◦ Part 7 ◦ With less than two hours to go to my destination of Auburn, my mind drifted back and forth. In the past three days, I had left behind the storm of Alice, with desert rains…
Author DaQua ◦ Part 6 ◦ The final drive of my Alice to Auburn Audacious Adventure, was within reach; 190 km south east lay my destination – the little off grid house, amongst the gum trees, that would become my…
Author DaQua ◦ Part 5 ◦ Good Morning Port Augusta – a former port, now a major road and rail junction commonly described as being at the crossroads of the country. For those heading North, this was the gateway to…
Author DaQua ◦ Part 4 ◦ Woomera and Roxy Downs – famous, infamous, however you wish to frame them, past or present – seeing these place names and the signposted prohibited areas the size of some small countries, that flank…