Spring has Sprung
The grass has ris
Now I know why the birdies is

Last night I was reminded of the things I missed during winter and is a clear sign of the warmer months...
About 11.30 pm (bedtime) I was lulled with a gentle almost sub audible booming sound....George and his new missus.
Ten minutes or so later there were a series of loud cross between shriek and a whistle then a series of rapid fire chatter. First on our nature strip then it went up and down the street. This continued off and on in the immediate neighbourhood until the wee hours... Marge and John were back and at it again.......Ah bliss I was comforted to sleep with thoughts of cranky old Spot and his clicking.
What do YOU look forward to as a sign of Spring and would miss if they didn't occur?

Dear Examinator,

Thanks for this thread - you've given me an
excuse to do a bit of day-dreaming...

What do I look forward to as a sign of spring,
and would miss if it did not occur?

Spring to me is that wonderful season when
my garden begins to come to life.
When the plants begin to blossom - the birds
begin to sing - and I begin to dream of holidays...

- My almod trees are especially
beautiful - resembling snow-drops. Then there's
the cherry trees,the magnolias,lavender,
and my various orchids - all so
exquisite.

The birds get noisier and start their
nest-building. Then there's the many shrubs that were only
green yesterday - they suddenly burst out in wonderful
arrays of colour. The sun begins to feel warmer,
the days become brighter and longer, sunsets seem
to last until dawn - there are dreams and schemes
and holidays ahead - it's all a ride on a rainbow
my friend - and I'd miss it very much indeed if it
didn't exist.

However, in keeping with your first post and the
spring experience you've had recently - here's
part of a little ditty that I posted on another
thread that you may enjoy:

"I blow my pipes, the glad birds sing,
The fat young nymphs about me spring,
The sweaty centaur leaps the trees
And bites his dryad's splendid knees;
The sky, the water, and the earth
Repeat aloud our noisy mirth ...
Anon, tight-bellied baccanals,
With ivy from the vineyard walls,
Lead out and crown with shining glass
The wine's red baby on the grass.

I blow my pipes, the glad birds sing,
The fat young nymphs about me spring,
I am the lord,
I am the lord,
I am the lord of everything!"
- Hugh McCrae

Xammy, the kapok trees (Cochlospermum gillivraei) do it for me. They’re coming into flower now. They are common on Magnetic Island and the hills around Townsville.

Right at about the driest time of the year when the dry tropics are looking pretty sad with dead brown grass throughout the savanna woodlands and drought-stressed shrubs in the vine thickets, the kapoks lose all their leaves and burst into magnificant flower.

http://www.sgaptownsville.org.au/images/Cochlospermum%20gillivraei.JPG

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/142/317802700_823fd44758.jpg

http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/resources/nature-online/online-exhibitions/endeavour-botanical/pictures/X/B000029X.jpg

Oh boy Foxy, you sure do know how to daydream!

( :>)

Ludwig,
We used to have kapok fight as children in Rabaul. Pity it's gone now under 2 mtrs of volcanic ash..And to thing of all the lives that were lost for that place in WW2.
Did you work out the identities to
Marge and John, George and Cranky Spot?

Foxy
More pixies (daydreams) I see good onya

Definitely the increasing temperature. To go outside and feel it's hot or stay up until to the early hours of the morning and suddenly realise it's not even cool. Granted, that can occur anytime here, but from spring onwards it's the norm and not a special treat as it is in winter. On a broader scale to see the circulation pattern starting it's progression to the wet season. It's started now. Intermitantly thermal lows are appearing over Western Australia. As time wears on they'll become more frequent and spread all over the northern inland, becoming a daily feature by about October. About this time, IF we're lucky, afternoon storms will begin.

Most people seem to think that winter is the best time of the year in the tropics but give me summer any day. I've lived here all my life and I definitely feel more upbeat and generally enthusiastic during spring and summer. The only downside is the threat of cyclones. Most people disagree, but I don't care. I'm old enough to know what I like!

Sunblock comes out, buy t’shirts and shorts, get some hats, new crocks (hey they are the ugliest shoes in the world but just great for kids), barrier spray house, watch for allergies appearing, update outside toys and throw out worn ones, start collecting eggs from chickens, pack away heaters, blankets get stored, lighter quilts come out for all 14 beds/toddler bed/cots, step up the bleating at hubby to clean the pool, get poodles groomed, and it all happens about two – three months earlier than it would in NZ.

Oh and yeah the garden, funny how themes come up – was talking to Fractelle about gardening in another thread earlier today. I have a smaller garden now so know my little plants a lot more personally. I think I will be able to grow a variety of plants bigger and better than I did in the hard frosts of the winters in Wellington or Christchurch. I’m still scared of all your weird bugs though.

And I notice the different bird sounds now but really have no idea yet which is which. And the sound of teenagers which goes like this “I don’t want to it’s too hot…”

But I don’t feel Spring arrive here on the Central Coast, the winter temps were closer to NZ spring.

PS – no I don’t do the top paragraph in one day (or even in one week) and yeah I would miss all of it.

Rabaul Exam?

Dear Ludwig,

This is for you:

"Spring - when all the world is new again
and even gnarled old trees wear coloured blossoms
on their scarred grey limbs
and reach the sky to capture, once again,
a passing bird or honey bee -

In time we shall return to purple hills
and yellow wildflower in the valley -
to willows rustling softly in a summer breeze
and crystal waterfalls that play their merry game
half hidden in a chuckling creek -
to scarlet breasted birds chattering of their freedom
in the tops of cool, green trees
and all the sounds that do not shatter silence
but are part of it .....
In time perhaps we'll learn to live again ....."
---Nan Witcomb.

I'm a bit of a dreamer Ludwig - (but it's useful -
when you're a writer).

The other thing that signals spring is the arrival of the rainbirds or koels, with their superb far carrying call, delivered at any time of the day or night.

http://www.qm.qld.gov.au/education/programs/eco-online/courancove/infobites/images/Common-Koel.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObwGd64yTTs&feature=related

Xammy, George and his mussus sound like tawny frogmouths.

Marge and John might be bush stone-curlews. I thought of flying foxes. But it doesn’t seem to fit.

Spot is presumably a house gecko. The native one (Gehyra dubia) or the introduced American bugger (Hemidactylus frenatus) – not sure which.

How’d I go?

Ludwig
Well done two up one down
The stone curlews nest(hmm. a small depression on the bare ground) in the local park. Locals avoid them so they can raise their chicks. 2 out of 3 nestings successful so far. Last year the violent storm and excessive rain put an end to that. They were at it again last night too talk about family arguments.

The tawnys roost in a neighbour's pergola during the day. Nests (hmmm, two twigs and a lot of faith) in the nearby trees. Even brings the chick to the pergola. A few years ago they successfully raised triplets...imagine mum one end three chicks and on the other beam, dad. All trying to look like broken stumps on yellow beams..amusing.

Cranky Spot is a Dollar bird a yearly visitor from PNG to breed that nests locally. He spends most day either sitting on the power lines 'clicking '. Or chasing other birds away and clicking. Do you know how to sex them by sight, I don't. I'm too concerned to get too close to the nest site (the same each year) lest I frighten them off.

After having lived in the tropics for 20 years or so, I now delight in living somewhere that has four distinct seasons. Where I now live in rural Southern Queensland, spring is characterised by:

* blossoming fruit trees
* sprouting deciduous trees
* planting, weeding and spraying
* lambs and calves
* stirring snakes
* greening paddocks
* days that start below zero and end up being warm to hot
* beanies exchanged for broad-brimmed hats
* crustaceans emerging from the river and creek beds, and the consequent reawakening of the fish
* magpies and plovers swooping, native pigeons dancing.

I like spring!

"Spring has sprung
The flowers has riz
I wonder where the birdies is?

Some say the birds is on the wing
But that's absurd
The wings is on the bird!"

I'm not so sure spring has sprung. It feels more like we've gone straight to summer here in SE Queensland - 35 degrees a few days back - and winter's not yet over!

Having, as well, spent some of June and July in the UK in their summer (and it actually was a summer too this year), I don't really feel we've had a winter here. I just haven't had my fill of firelit evenings and snuggling up under the thicker doona, we've got the thin old summer one on already.

Since this heat burst, we've been invaded by little black millimetre-long flea-like insects crawling round on the walls and flat surfaces inside and outside the house - and in the cupboards, grrrhhh. We're surrounded by bushland and there seems to be more of them in the parts of the house nearest the trees, so I'm thinking there's a connection there, but I'm really quite mystified. We're coming into our sixth summer in this house and I've never had this happen before.

I love nature but these little blighters are pests. Does anyone out there know what they might be and what might have brought them on?

examinator - please excuse me for highjacking your thread for one minute, but I just want to make a quick comment to CJ and Ludwig now that I've found them on the same thread together. It relates to a thread which I missed at the time and which has now been archived.

CJ and Ludwig

Great little interchange on 'Ten Thousand Boat People!', you two.

I usually give up on Ludwig after a few posts on such threads, but I must say, CJ, your tenacity has inspired me to hang on in there next time too. Your calm and consistent rebuttals were a delight to read. Sorry, Ludwig, but I thought you were soundly thrashed and more than a little rattled in parts.

And of course you know I'm such a neutral observer in these debates! :)

Sorry again, examinator! I know CJ and Ludwig will have the good sense to ignore my comments and not derail your happy thread.

But I just had to have my say on that one! :)

Bronwyn,
Go stand in the naughty corner...now!

Have you thought of taking your doona down to the bottle shop and setting up in their walk in fridge for a while? Wooly nightie, fluffy slippers,doona a hot chocky drink. The looks on the tradies coming in for their supplies would be priceless.

;-) he he he

Thanks Foxy

My turn to daydream……

.
Atop a rocky headland on Magnetic Island

Through the leafless limbs of a kapok tree

Adorned with spectacular large yellow flowers

I see a tropical city on the Coral Sea

.
In the other direction spinifex and hoop pine

Haphazardly grow on boulder scree

An odd mix of fire-promoting and fire-sensitive plants

Of desert grass and rainforest tree

.
Below on the beach of Rocky Bay

I see people wandering naked and free

Just enjoying the winter sun

Not concerned about who might see

.
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Ahh yes, what a wonderful part of the world I live in

http://members.iinet.net.au/~mtattersall/TownsvilleArtsRegion/Tsv_Images/TownsvilleLocMap.jpg

http://home.st.net.au/~dunn/townsville.gif

http://www.cairnsunlimited.com/images/w_townsville.jpg

http://briandesousa.com/bicycling/touring/images/aust/MagneticIsland_B1.jpg

http://www.australiantraveller.com/images/galleries/3173/065-picnic-bay.jpg

http://www.simbravo.com/blog/uploaded_images/IMG_0827_resize-752066.JPG

What a great thread this has turned out to be!

So many different images from everyone - reminding me of what
a great country we live in - whose beauty can be
felt by all the senses.

The Australian landscape has often been described as
lacking in spectacle - yet I don't agree the "sameness,"
that people often describe arises from the sheer size of
the various geographical environments - the country is
in fact extremely varied and has numerous areas of
spectacular beauty - as illustrated just by our few posts.

I was born and raised on the Atherton Tablelnad,that fertile little microclimate west of Cairns where on any given day, you can wake up sweating without having a stitch of clothing on, or use a doona all year round,up near Tumoulin.

There are some bloody good drinkers in the Northern Territory,and some serious competition for them in Cairns and its hinterland. Its spring all year round up there,and its the role of brown air conditioner fluid to make it bearable. The non drinkers go for dope,and the Statue of Captain Cook with his hand leld out,on the main road in from the airport, shows how high the marihuana grows in Cairns.

Yesterday in Romsey Victoria there was snow,down to about 1500 feet. I have no doubt you could have run around in a set of boxer shorts in Cairns, or Townsville. The coldest night I have ever spent in my life was in Townsville.It was a night in Late May and a cold snap ,had taken a detour from Antarctica through central Australia,and sleeping in a cold steel truck cabin with only two blanketts, daylight could not come soon enough. Driving I could not drink to ease the pain either.The earliest frost I ever saw in Atherton was the fourth of May and the latest the 23rd September. Similarly one year we had ten days with nine below zero frosts.

They say that drinking slows down the onset of dementia, so an early spring in the tropics should serve them well. Ah! six dollar jugs never got a chance to get hot.

Ah yes Xammy, a dollarbird! I didn’t make the connection between ‘clicking’ and the harsh distinctive cackles that this bird utters. But now I can see it.

There are a lot of Queenslanders on OLO.

Strangely, I love Canberra's climate. Crispy cold winter mornings with white frost and occasionally snow on the ground, to be followed by the best clear sunny days. Lately the winds have arrived and they are cold - straight off the snowies. Autumn is beautiful with bright reds and oranges contrasting with the pinks and green of spring. My girls were saying lately how they can smell Spring - it was true the distinct smell of pollen and honey in the air.

Examinator, we have a family of blue wrens in our garden lately - they are so cute and they love the new straw I have set around the apple orchard. Also many parrots and Currawong. One year we were honoured with a visit by the black Gang Gang cockatoos during the drought.

Now Bronny, you really are a very naughty girl.

I hope you are still in the corner, facing the wall. You must stay there all night, just with a bottle of water and a little girl’s potty to pee in ):>|

There I was having a lovely daydream and I had to go and read your horrible post! Fancy that, just completely out of the blue someone badmouths poor innocent ol’ Ludwig. And someone whom I thought was a nice person {:<o

Now if only your beloved CJ could debate matters sensibly without either slandering those he disagrees with or deserting the thread when he can’t answer the questions or sensibly further the debate, then I wouldn’t get tetchy with him. And I’m certainly not alone in this criticism. Numerous posters have made similar comments. (Just when that nasty clash between Lud and Ceej seemed to be smoothed over, you’ve opened old wounds!)

And as for Ludwig being soundly thrashed, you’ve got to be daydreaming. On all of the numerous threads centred on asylum seekers, immigration and population growth, the majority opinion has well and truly been on Ludwig’s side.

And you’re guilty of the same big flaw as CJ – deserting the thread when the questions get too hard. You’ve done that on more than one occasion. But at least you don’t resort to racist or bigoted slurs.

Bronwyn, will do me a favour please. Start up a new general thread centred on the points over which you think I was thrashed and we’ll thrash it out once again….and see who comes up short.

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Pelican, what sort of parrots are in your garden?

Hi Ludwig
I am not a great ornithologist but we get mainly the Eastern and Crimson Rosellas. Lots of other birds too like Wattle Birds, honeyeaters, magpies, sulphur crested cockatoos and galahs (and not just the ones up at Parliament House). You can often see kookaburras in the outskirts or at the Botanic Gardens sitting in the old gum trees...

:-)

Dear Ludwig,

We've got heaps of Indian mynah birds,
wattle-birds, magpies, crows, finches,
starlings, blackbirds, galahs, bell-birds,
on a rare occasion - cockatoos, and red-crested
parrots. We've had foxes sunbaking in the garden
and of course - ring-tailed possums. There's a
huge park near our home - which has a far greater
variety of flora and fauna. And, in summer - watch
out for snakes.

Foxy, I knew you were foxxy, but sunbaking foxes in your garden. Now that’s really foxxxy!

Alright that’s it for me. I’m awf to bed….to bury my head under my pillow!

Dear Examinator and Ludwig

Thanks both for a good laugh.

Ludwig, I could take you up on a few points, but I'd better not. That naughty corner is not much fun!

I won't start a thread myself, but I'm sure one will happen along sooner or later. No doubt we'll continue to disagree, unless of course you finally happen to see the light! :)

SHHHHH...dont wake the dreamers...as we gain spring others gain winter..each has their teachings...The Joke’s On You: CNN Gulf War Propaganda
http://www.youtube.com/v/jTWY14eyMFg

The video..covered by Alex Jones on his radio show..simply provides more evidence..much of the news is propaganda and nonsense..and the joke is on us.

CNN’s Charles Jaco makes light of a fake Scud attack during the Gulf War.

Even the foundation-supported FAIR — recipient of grants
http://www.questionsquestions.net/feldman/feldman02.html
...from the Rockefeller Family fund...reported that the Pentagon is intimately involved..in producing the “news.”

In February,2002,FAIR reported:..“Even if the PSYOPS officers working in the newsroom did not directly influence news reporting,..the question remains of whether CNN may have allowed the military to conduct an intelligence-gathering mission...against the network itself.”
http://www.fair.org/activism/osi-propaganda.html

The Dutch newspaper Trouw and France’s Intelligence Newsletter reported in 2000 that several officers from the US Army’s 4th Psychological Operations ..PSYOPS)..Group at Ft. Bragg worked in the news division at CNN’s Atlanta headquarters,..starting in the final days of the Kosovo War.

In the 1980s,..officers from the 4th Army PSYOPS group..staffed the National Security Council’s Office of Public Diplomacy..(OPD),..a shadowy government propaganda agency..that planted stories in the U.S. media..supporting the Reagan Administration’s..Central America policies,..according to FAIR.

“CNN has always maintained a close relationship with the Pentagon.”

In fact,..the entire corporate media..is a subsidiary of the ruling elite,..as evidenced by the CIA’s Operation Mockingbird.

“Starting in the early days of the Cold War..(late 40’s),..the CIA began a secret project called Operation Mockingbird,..with the intent of buying influence behind the scenes..at major media outlets and putting reporters on the CIA payroll,

which has proven to be..a stunning..ongoing success...The CIA effort to recruit American news organizations..and journalists..to become spies and disseminators of propaganda,..was headed up by Frank Wisner,..Allen Dulles,Richard Helms,and Philip Graham..(publisher of The Washington Post),”

writes Mary Louise..for Prison Planet.“Media assets will eventually include ABC,NBC,CBS,Time,Newsweek,Associated Press,United Press International(UPI),Reuters,Hearst Newspapers,Scripps-Howard,Copley News Service,etc...and 400 journalists,..who have secretly carried out assignments..according to documents on file at CIA headquarters,

from intelligence-gathering..to serving as go-betweens...The CIA had infiltrated..the nation’s businesses,..media,..and universities..with tens of thousands of..on-call operatives by the 1950’s.”

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/28816321/the_great_american_bubble_machine/print
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/26793903/the_big_takeover/print

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUvjXzTaw5M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM6rfXof2xQ

http://www.eclipptv.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=6808
ok..back to smelling roses

Pelican,
Orni- what-ist you know that there's drug therapy for just about everything now a days. Ha ha hee hee. Ok, I know funny in my own lunch box!
Wrens have interesting life styles. From promiscuity to older siblings sticking around to help raise the next clutch. their different calls are interesting too.

Aside, when in the hills of Adelaide we had a Bouvier dog (a big cream fluff-ball) that used to nap in the sun in the afternoon when we had BarBQ teas one cheeky superb blue wren used to gather his nesting material from the sleeping dog. When the family were foraging in our back he used to use the sleeping dogs back as a look out.

The chooks used to both the dog when they decided to 'flea'(?) her the duck thought it was a chook, defend the chooks for the dog if she got cross at the pecking chook.

Chaos reigned supreme 5 chooks, one duck, one dog, 8 or so wrens, a cranky narcissistic Male Golden Whistler (he spent hours sitting in an apple tree
(telling his reflection in the scenic window off), a passing buck Koala, the odd Rainbow Lorry or or ten in the near by fruit trees, all having their say, and the rabbits from under the water tank watching on. oh yes, and us in hysterics. All the funnier for the consumed bottle or so of SA red.

Come to think of it always happened in early spring.(Nice out side then)

Did I mention irises, daffodils and tulips? And of course mowing and brushcutting, which I've been doing this morning... at least it makes a change from splitting firewood :)

Thanks for the kind words Bronwyn, good to see you back.

Poor old Ludwig's a nice bloke, but like many fundamentalist greenies he's not all that fussed about people - particularly those who arrive uninvited by boat. It's a bit sad that he regards the support of OLO's large contingent of racists and xenophobes as indicating some kind of victory for him... but we've done that to death and I don't want to get sent to the naughty corner too, so 'nuff said for now on that topic ;)

Did I mention flies?

im trying hard to get the images you dreamers are projecting..

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Aussie Spring eh. I am damn well sunburnt. One hour playing with a ball outside and colour me stupid.

“Ludwig, I could take you up on a few points…”

Well come on then Bronwyn, be a devil, start up a new thread. Cmawwwn!

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Haaaaa hahahaha. CJ, you’re calling me a fundy greenie??

Now that’s funny!

It’s the fundamentalist bleeding-heart greenies that are bringing us unstuck, just as much as the rampant pro-growth antisustainabilityist mob.

You seem to hold the highly confused position of having one foot in the sustainability-supporting population-stabilising camp and the other firmly planted in the fundy bleeding-heart compassion-at-all-costs open-borders no-sense-of-balance camp.

I don’t know how you live with yourself!

And of course you couldn’t have made a comment without chucking in the ‘racists and xenophobes’ bit.

You really do need to work out your points of balance and to stop holding and expressing blatantly contradictory views.

Anyway do av a good weegend….in the naughty corner, instead of being out and about enjoying this wonderful summer-like pre-spring weather!

D’Oh, I spose I’d better go and stand in the naughty corner now too. See you there shortly CJ. We can look forward to a night of heated argument...... or fistycuffs!

Biff.... wham... sock...!! { ;~o

Let's have a beer instead... cheers mate!

Did I mention that spring also signifies the end of bloody football for the year? Well, nearly...

“….spring also signifies the end of bloody football for the year?”

I’ve gotta agree that that is one of the good things about spring!

not much we can do piper..[our govt done gone and orded vacine for us too...this vacine is gmo bacteria...grown on blended up animal bits...

its designed to do the basic work of the eugenisists globally...like notice the increase in child cancers..or those kids normal one day fully retarded a few days after their needles...add etc

its going down globally...when we went to level 6..[a few weeks ago]..the un took over the world govt...under this pandemic authority..as outlines in the bird flue topics at the time...but there is so much more going down...or planned to go down

but this topic is light and fluffy...

i just thought i would go''for something totally differentl''..lol...on another note my playlist refuses to play...seems they shutting down free music downloads...web 2 is happening..[as we previously warned]

...as we smell the flowers of the new age..they spring their tarp/trap

>>spring also signifies the end of bloody football for the year<<
Yaaaaah
Now I have a little list of regressive, divisive, ego driven, hang over obsessions from our primeval origins We could do without.If we do, we might even exist long enough as a species, to evolve into something worthwhile.

Sorry folks It's my turn for the naughty corner (sigh again)

Dear Examinator,

The 'naughty corner,' has got to be the best place -
think of all the interesting people that end up in it?
The company's great - and you could have so much
fun there - much better than just sitting around
being good - isn't it?

Sister Mary Virgilius could never understand
why I'd always smile at her when she'd tell
me, "You'll go to hell!"

You see - heaven to me was the concept - which was
full of boring people ('goody-two-shoes') where
all they did was float around on clouds, playing
harps - boring...

Whereas - hell - that was a much more exciting
concept - (like a disco - where things got pretty
heated) - and the people were much more interesting -
in other words - much more fun!
;-)

Foxy,
Old old old old joke.
A pious person dies and goes to heaven and asks what is for entertainment...they are shown a chamber music quartet.The person then looks down to hell and there they are with a 40 piece jazz orchestra having a wow of a time music, booze ,sex and depravity.
The person turns to St Col and asks how come I was good all my life and all I get is this not very good quartet?
St.Col replies...it's a matter of economics they've got lots of people and all we got is you and I it's just not economical to hire a better band.
Ps the joke's crutches are in for repair.

Dear Examinator,

I loved your golden oldie - and I've got one
as well:

Sister Mary Virgilius was giving her usual
pep-talk to the Wednesday morning assembly
at her all girls' high school -
gathered in the school auditorium.

After all the usual warning instructions to
the girls regarding chastity and morals -
Sister Virgilius finished the oration with the words:

"And remember girls, one hours' pleasure will
have you damned to hell for eternity."

A little voice spoke up from the back
of the auditorium:

"Sister Virgilius, how do you make it last an hour?"

:-)