We took our annual trip to the nursery the other day. I didn’t edit the colour in any of these photos!
Category: Garden
Introducing Marimo!
This is one of the more unusual birthday gifts I received this year:
A glass jar with rocks, a bit of sea fan and something in a bag. First we put the rocks and fan in the jar and filled with tap water:
Here’s the weird thing in the bag:
It’s a ‘marimo’, a type of algae native to certain lakes around the world that grows into ball shapes. He was to live in our jar!
After a quick washing:
We put him in the jar:
Where he floated! The sheet that came with him said this was due to the water ph and oxygen content, and marimo would change his depth depending on such things.
After about a week though, he has settled on the bottom like he would in a lake:
Marimo needs almost no maintenance, prefers low light (no direct sunlight!) and can apparently live (and grow) for decades. The perfect plant for a cat household!
Wildlife XI: Return of the Robo Camera
This time I left the camera out for about 6 weeks, and it took a staggering 800+ photos. Incredibly the batteries still had 30% charge left after all this time (which included a series of extremely hot days). I’m really pleased with this camera overall.
Looking through all those photos for hidden gems was a bit of a drag though, since about 775 of them had nothing of much interest 🙂
Let’s start with the squirrel shots for mum:
Doing a quick tail comparison tells me the first and last shots are of different squirrels, which is entirely likely given the number of them living around here. The selfie shot is funny isn’t it?
You can see I switched the position of the camera after the first month. This was to catch a very particular target on film, but I’m sad to say I failed. I’ll try again though, and I’ll leave you in suspense as to what I’m after…
The rest of the shots were of the usual cats:
Exactly two (consecutive) frames of a deer:
A bunny:
This creature I am having trouble identifying (but is most likely the fluffy white cat):
And a few shots of possum bums (and no I’m not joking).
Still no foxes. Still no ground hogs. Still no wolves, bears or even bigfeet.
The search continues…