Saturday, 12 April 2014

Autumn

I like a walk through our local botanic gardens at any time of year. Of course Spring has more OTT splendour, but autumnal walks have their delights too- you just have to look a bit harder for them at times.

Although there was the odd bit of showy display still

There has been quite a bit of rain lately and so there were many kinds of mushrooms on show. 



Some kind of slime mould I believe.




I'd never seen these before, but there were quite a few this day
They are apparently wood moth larvae shells recently emerged
from that hole.
The case was bigger than my fingers!

Some tiny cyclamen

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12 comments:

  1. Sean @ His And Her Hobbies12 April 2014 at 21:35

    The autumn flowers look amazing. I keep forgetting that it is autumn there even though I lived in Australia for almost 24 years.

    Sean at His and Her Hobbies

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  2. Jackie McGuinness12 April 2014 at 23:25

    Love the golden mushrooms!

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  3. Anonymous12 April 2014 at 23:26

    Beautiful gardens! Anytime of the year it is amazing to see what is growing. Love those cyclamen...

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  4. grammajudyb12 April 2014 at 23:43

    As always, wonderful nature photos. Aren't the tiny cyclamen so cute?

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  5. Anonymous12 April 2014 at 23:45

    Beautiful flowers, but how interesting to have a show of mushrooms. ;)

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  6. Laurel-Rain Snow13 April 2014 at 00:00

    Autumn is my favorite season...so I guess I should hop on over to Australia now! LOL

    Seriously, though, visiting Australia is on my bucket list, but since I don't like to fly...sigh. Gorgeous flowers and mushrooms.

    Thanks for sharing...and for visiting my blog.

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  7. Joy13 April 2014 at 01:02

    Gorgeous photos. I love how pretty things look close up when you're being really attentive. I think my favorite are the yellow mushrooms nestled in the fallen leaves.

    Joy's Book Blog

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  8. Sandra Nachlinger13 April 2014 at 01:19

    Beautiful photos, especially when viewed full screen. You've inspired me to take more close-up photos of everything that's blooming in my back yard.

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  9. Susan13 April 2014 at 08:55

    Your photos are always so beautiful!

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  10. Brona13 April 2014 at 16:38

    I haven't been to the Botanic Gardens in Orange for quite some time, but I do love the autumn colours. The Orange/Bathurst region does autumn so well, esp the many tree lined avenues (although my dad hates keeping the gutters and drains clean at this time of year!)

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  11. Paulita 14 April 2014 at 02:17

    In the autumn here, I'm always so jealous of your spring. Now, we're in the midst of spring while you experience autumn. Lovely colors. Here's Mine

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  12. Deb Nance at Readerbuzz14 April 2014 at 06:35

    Mmmm...slime mold, eh? Don't think I've ever seen that in the wild.

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