The No Scissors Paper Bird

 Though not a native of the tin-scape of Uluṟu - a postcard from the inimitable Dan Brown - this paper Benteveo, that arrived par avion from Argentina, is well adapted to the colour scheme.  The bird’s other name Pitangus sulphuratus is a vocal, yellow chested passarine, and I will say it was charming to make both it and its acqaintance. No scissors were used in making this animal. 

Lake Stacks Up - the Patience of Lake Saint Clair

 Walking along Franklin Beach on Lake Saint Clair, one of my well-balanced predecessors has hit the right note with this staccato column, with its elegant echo of the rocks’ volcanic ancestor in the distance.  Saint Clair’s slightly tanin-tinged water is cool to the skin for a swim, but soft as rain, I went in twice, each time as they say of rivers, never the  same. 

Shaping Up: Collages of Pantaloons and Leaves

Drawing gum leaves and nuts is a bit like getting lost in the forest, best to keep going, looking for edges, and perhaps stone curlews and swimmers.  Retrace your steps wearing fancy dress, carrying a washi paper cherry blossom and don’t forget: tessellated Wiley. 
 

A Leaf out of the Bat’s book

 

The lovely Bat Wing Fern, this charmingly winged frond found by Lake Saint Clair, botanically Histiopteris incisa,  here shows its likeness to both bat and butterfly, and in its symmetry seems more likely to fly off than stay put, but it will no doubt leave the airborne part to its fine spores. 

The Round Square Roots of Trees

 

Each view, potentially has its perfect frame at Lake Saint Clair it might be the uprighted, galactic explosion of silvered roots of trees, drift wood grey from floods and seches, telescopic in their perspective, a species of clock, which ticks off time like fleas.