There’s light in the darkness-winter sunlight in Calgardup Cave

#margaretriver #westernaustralia
#sunbeams

From print to coding; words. Reading, stories. This exhibit of a printer set up and seat seen in Hartford, CT.

“The beginning is always today.”

Mary Shelley

Kek Lok Si Temple, George Town, Penang, Malaysia
#photography #architecture #penang #malaysia

I got the bus here from Almaty.
#almaty #photography #Kazakhstan #nature #landscapephotography #風景

Ascension Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Almaty, Kazakhstan. It's made of wood without nails.
#photography #architecture

Time travellers from Gondwana

Native bee blissing out on a Marri blossom 🥰

Full morning moon #fullmoon #trees #Abgraphy44

My oldest is turning 21 tomorrow! Here she is up a Norfolk Island pine 13 years ago - now the sky’s no limit and she’s travelling all over the world! 💚

#thicktrunktuesday #nature

Forest giants in Australia’s Southwest biodiversity hotspot 🍃🤩🍃

#thicktrunktuesday #treeoftheday

Grow your own way - tree wisdom by Marri 🍃

Corymbia calophylla, from the far southwest of West Oz 🍃

#treeoftheday #nature

Great article on climate action! ‘What is needed now are not the menus - but the recipes, cookbooks and cooking classes of climate action.’

Transforming the stories we tell about climate change: from ‘issue’ to ‘action’ Transforming the stories we tell about climate change: from ‘issue’ to ‘action’, De Meyer, Kris, Coren, Emily, McCaffrey, Mark, Slean, Cheryl

Yes, the debate of how this is communicated is also fascinating & never-ending.

Does optimism inspire or reassure? Does pessimism motivate or disempower?

The answer is as complex as are people.

Though we probably should communicate more about action than the issue...

#ClimateComms

The keyhole 🌊🌊🌊
Surfer’s Point, Margaret River

Above and below at Calgardup Cave 🍃

🍃🍃🍃Roadside Marri, queen of the curl 🍃🍃🍃

Corymbia callophylla, a keystone species in the southwest of Australia

#treeoftheday

Seeds ripening in a Banksia cone
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On the Urgency of Climate Change, Creating Hope in a Crisis, and the Limits of Western Storytelling It’s genuinely difficult to cultivate a hopeful perspective on the climate crisis, and prospects for climate action, in 2025. While I was writing this introductory note, COP30, this year’s United N…

"We need stories that honor our unique circumstances while simultaneously insisting on our shared peril, and our shared responsibility to muddle through this together, however we can."

Really interesting article — recommended.

#GreenSky #ClimateChange
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Sky, leaf, blossom

Grass tree trunk, decades worth of spiralling leaf bases dotted with resin! Inside, aerial roots that feed from moisture and nutrients sourced from above the ground 🍃

#australia #botany

Snakes on an Astral Plane

This was an interesting formation, coming in at an unusual angle to the main rays, snaking and twisting about.

I like the big storms, and their unusual structures!

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Twizel, New Zealand
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"Look with your eyes. See with your Soul."

#Aurora #EastCoastKin #Scape #Stunday

The legendary grass tree meadow at Boranup. These folks are biodiversity hotspots and bursting with bats, lizards, snakes and birds - so you really have to watch your step if you’re looking for the spider orchid that only lives at this one spot in the whole world! 🍃

#biodiversity #nature

Looks like a magic gate 🤩

Sounds like a luxury to me - horrible 36 degrees here today … when even the spiders move into the fridge

That is amazing- please post more marine plants! 🤩

Bumpy old Powderbark in the Dryandra Woodland, West Oz.

(Eucalyptus accedens)

🍃🍃🍃

#thicktrunktuesday #treeoftheday

This year’s Marri blossom is about to boom after a year of good rain - picture huge trees right across the landscape dripping with honey-scented flowers and smothered with love from raucous cockatoos and billions of tiny invertebrate souls. On a full moon a heavy blossom event rivals the aurora 🤩

In November of this year (2026) Voyager 1, NASA’s deep-space probe, will be one light-day away from Earth. The first ever spacecraft to reach this historic milestone. Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 is currently exploring interstellar space 15.8 billion miles away. #Aerospace #Voyager1

Karri near Manjimup, home to some of Western Australia’s historically tallest trees.

Now that logging native forests is banned the giants might just return for our grandchildren to marvel at 🤩

#treeoftheday #eucalyptus #forests

Ten Sydney Harbours’ worth of threatened species habitat approved for destruction in 2025, report finds ACF analysis finds amount of habitat approved by Albanese government for land-clearing hit a 15-year high last year

The Pilbara region of Western Australia is home for five of the animals worst affected by habitat destruction in 2025: the northern quoll, night parrot, ghost bat, Pilbara leaf-nosed bat and Pilbara olive python. #auspol #nature www.theguardian.com/environment/...