Little sweetheart ♥

I wish the young possums would stop falling out of trees around here! Yesterday I found this sweet little baby in our local park, and although he was breathing and squeaking when I picked him up, sadly he died, probably of shock, just before I reached the vet clinic.
Poor little love ...

They're just fleeting encounters, but I get teary every time this happens!

Beautiful bones

... photographed for LIFE magazine by Andreas Feininger.

Can you identify them?

1. a mole
2. an elephant femur and a hummingbird
3. a fish
4. an owl
5. a sloth
6. a pygmy armadillo (does my bum look big in this armour?)
7. a horse and a human
8. a jumping mouse
9. a gorilla ribcage
10. this one's a mystery to me ... it was labelled as 'an animal skeleton'. Any suggestions?

Troy Emery

I love these Wild Things by Troy Emery. They're so mysterious!

Animal rehab

We seem to be operating an animal rehab centre here these days ...

Our sweet little adopted dog, Bracken, is settling in and making progress, but he still has a lot of psychological issues as a result of his traumatic past. Poor little guy! He so desperately wants to be part of our pack!

Last week while I was mowing my neighbour's lawn I saw (and heard!) a little ring-tail possum fall out of a tree onto the concrete driveway... *crack!* ... Ouch! The possum was stunned but didn't seem to be badly injured, so I wrapped him in a warm towel and let him rest in a box for a while before taking him back to his tree, where he promptly scurried on up to a high branch. This is the second tree-fallen possum I've found nearby in the past year.

A wonky end to a busy week

After a week with our nieces, who kept us busy and in school holiday mode, the house seems strangely quiet tonight.

Today we took the girls home to their little town in north-western Victoria, which looks amazingly green now that the drought seems to have broken (it was flooded a couple of weeks ago). B & S were very keen to get back to their horses, and I met their pet bison, Wonky.

On the way home I found some great treasures at a little rural second-hand shop. More details soon ....

Hooray for nudies!

Whenever I scubadive, I really love finding nudibranch (nudibranches?), especially if they're swimming.

A quick Google image search reveals a great selection of these wonderful, diverse beauties. Some of them are really tiny, just a few centimetres long; others are more substantial. I found some lovelies from National Geographic today, via Sea Way Blog:

Do you like nudies too?

Softly, softly ...

When taking Gus for a run this afternoon, I found a beautiful ring-tail possum lying under a tree, injured.

I gathered up the frightened little thing and placed her carefully in my bicycle basket, then peddled as quickly as I could to the Brunswick Central Vet Clinic.

Poor little possie .... she was so badly injured, the vet had to put her to sleep.

Sweet dreams little one.



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(Pics from here and here)

Ophidiophobiacs, look away now!

The Rainbow Serpent comes to life in these stunning photos by Guido Mocafico:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nature's been having fun with her paintbox! I think they're lovely.


(found via Dear Ada)