12 - Rhubarb Ruffles (original oil painting, 5 x 7 in, framed) near to the ground

near to the ground

I am looking southward

Then we drove a kilometre north to find the creek itself where the road crosses it on a new embankment

sitting just downslope from this perky red capped fungus

The Starlings are boasting their skills of mimicry

12 - Rhubarb Ruffles (original oil painting, 5 x 7 in, framed) near to the ground31 March finds me crouched over another scene of spring vigour in the Rhubarb patch. The weather is much improved, with warm sunshine and hardly any breeze and the Mosquitoes think so too. They were coming up below the hand which held the canvas, near to the ground, and biting where I could not see them. The Starlings are boasting their skills of mimicry. I heard a Gray Tree Frog call four times, and I know it was a bird. Read more