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Come into my parlour

January 24, 2023 by David Horton, posted in ecology, gardens

Wolf Spider burrow

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Round ’em up, rawhide

January 12, 2023 by David Horton, posted in gardens

You know the expression about the impossibility of herding cats? Well cats are the mildest quiet dairy cows trotting quietly through the milking shed half open door, compared to the impossibility of herding an Eastern Brown Snake out of the backyard through a wide open garden gate.

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I hear you need a gardener

January 3, 2023 by David Horton, posted in gardens

Egernia cunninghamii at front door, with gardening tools.

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Lily white

December 30, 2022 by David Horton, posted in gardens
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The frog god

December 29, 2022 by David Horton, posted in ecology, farm, gardens

Built by Limnodynastes tasmaniensis in honour of their ancestors and to protect them from goldfish. It doesn’t work.

https://www.frogid.net.au

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Follow that wombat

December 29, 2022 by David Horton, posted in ecology, farm, gardens

…with the empty colon.

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It’s beginning to look even more like Christmas

December 24, 2022 by David Horton, posted in gardens

A christmassy rose bush at my back door.

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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

December 24, 2022 by David Horton, posted in gardens

A christmassy Hippeastrum at my front door.

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Flower power

December 12, 2022 by David Horton, posted in gardens

Summertime

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I’m being followed

December 10, 2022 by David Horton, posted in gardens, science

by a moon shadow.

Moon and Venus near conjunction. Tuesday, 28 January 2020 at 8:48 pm, looking West from my back garden.
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Hammering on the mind’s door

“I think we are well-advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind’s door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were.” Joan Didion

A few of the themes

Consequences

Two cultures

Repeating patterns

Nature and nurture

Catcher in the Rye

Doorways

Prophet not without honour

Blood

Deaf

Smell

Building reserves in good times

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