So much water about and water birds abound.
We crossed the border into Victoria cruising down a lovely timbered road before breaking into the rich dairy country of Gippsland. It is wonderful to see the land green after more than 10 years of very dry weather. But most of the state of Victoria is still drought declared.
Musing:
The Pasture by Robert Frost
"I'm going out to clean the pasture spring;
I'll only stop to rake the leaves away
(And wait to watch the water clear, I may):
I sha'n't be gone long. You come too.
I'm going out to fetch the little calf
That's standing by the mother. It's so young,
It totters when she licks it with her tongue.
I sha'n't be gone long. You come too."
Musing:
The Pasture by Robert Frost
"I'm going out to clean the pasture spring;
I'll only stop to rake the leaves away
(And wait to watch the water clear, I may):
I sha'n't be gone long. You come too.
I'm going out to fetch the little calf
That's standing by the mother. It's so young,
It totters when she licks it with her tongue.
I sha'n't be gone long. You come too."
Is that its name: Polygonum? So off I go to look up the meaning ... "Any of numerous plants of the widely distributed genus Polygonum, characterized by stems with knotlike joints and conspicuous sheathlike stipules".
ReplyDeleteSo is this a Joan-name or an official name? I really do not understand that entire sentence that I copied from the dictionary!
It is the official name and I don't remember seeing any plants of that description there.
DeleteThe bird life must have been amazing. And I've never seen a gum like that before.
ReplyDeleteI can't tell one gum from another ... other than that how they look different. It annoys me that I can't name them.
DeleteOh that first shot is just beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI want to be there right now - right on the banks of that billabong.
Hey, maybe that's a Coolibah tree?
Yeh maybe ... after all they are down by a billabong.
DeleteGreat bird capture.
ReplyDeleteFantastic capture of the cormorant in the beautiful billabong! Love this post.
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