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Archive of entries posted on October 2004

Street seens

Streets scenes seen. OK, that’s pushing the pun a bit. Streets and environment. Armidale this afternoon. One of the great features of Armidale are the trees lining just about every single road in town. Great for shade in summer, and, as many of them are deciduous, great for colour in Autumn.

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Street scene 1
Looking north across the valley from the south side of town.

Street tree blossom
A street tree still blossoming forth.

Street scene 2
Look north from the south side of town from a street running parallel to the one in the first photograph.

Blossom finished blossoming
These blossoms will bloom no more.

Street scene 3
Looking west. The railway station is at the end of the street (the road swings to the right in front of it).

Day no more - sun has set
Goodbye day.

Orchids and pea

I spent a couple of hours wandering around the property looking for new, unphotographed wildflowers and orchids. I found tens of Diuris maculata and Diuris abbreviata, but, alas, nothing special for today’s photoblog.

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Diuris maculata
I didn’t think that we had more than the one type of Diuris orchid, but on reviewing the photographs and some books, I think this is a “Leopard Orchid” (Diuris maculata) …

Diuris abbreviata
… and that this is a “Lemon Doubletail” (Diuris abbreviata). But to be certain, I need to go back and find this specimen and take a closer look.

Pea flower
A pea (Fabaceae) in flower. I’m not even going to try and identify this one with the few resources I have. There are well over a 1000 different species of pea in Australia.

Dipodium erupting
Amazingly, I spotted this Hyacinth Orchid (Dipodium punctatum) just beginning to erupt from the ground (the purple object at the centre of the photograph). The clue was the remains of last year’s flower stalk just behind it.