Today I saw two of
the real kind in a nearby bush. Long, lean, and grey, they took off so quickly, I didn't get a photo.
I love Australian animals but today I had a better look
at some of the smaller things. The miniature yellow and black striped
helicopter bug with pulsating blurs for wings and the crucifix spider with its
shadow twin.
Thousands of spider webs from the traditional with a central twist
to some that were a sort of multi-level bundt pan shape.
These scrolls of
falling parchment, bleed from each limb as if they have been attacked by a huge
potato peeler, but they fall naturally from a paper-bark tree.
.
And the squiggly bark tree lives up to its name.
I wrote about the blackboys recently. They are in
full regalia with spears held high.
And they look even better up close.
I “mapped my walk” with my phone app, and it was a very slow
few kilometres but so totally worth it. After all you have to stop and smell
the roses; even when those roses are tiny white start flowers or even shreds of
curled up paper.
It’s all good.
