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Captured on film this image is taken from the opposite direction to the previous flood post. The water level is actually higher than the last image but not as high as it was a few years ago.

A sunny but smoggy day One of the disadvantages of being close to forests is that people think it’s their god given right to cut trees down for heating in winter.
As a result Launceston is the smoggiest city in Australia in winter, has one of the highest instances of chronic asthma and a report from the WHO indicates that smog is now known to cause developmental problems in children sadly Launceston has those as well…

Governments have had programs to upgrade houses to electric heat and insulation but couple that with the high cost of power in Tasmania and the penetration of these programs is not universal so the smog continues.

A recently completed cubic home in West Launceston. While in a cue at a local hardware shop a tradie was talking to a mate, where you working he asked on a pair of OXO cubes was the reply a few days later I walked past them!

There are normally people walking across a bridge in the middle of this torrent of water but the river Esk is in flood due to melting snow on Tasmania’s central plateau. Shot late in the day with a digital Pen F ironically with a tiny Russian Industar 50mm ƒ5.6 @ ISO 1600. I say Ironically because my original PEN was smashed in the 70’s by a big Russian Army bloke who got nasty with a metal detector at the AeroFlot check in.

In these COVID times, even though Tasmania is supposed to be free of this most recent threat to our existence going for a walk at night has a whole new reason. The Basin walk is safe enough, there are lots of. harmless native animals around, a few cats out to hunt the natives and the odd and likely a very cold rough sleeper. One man who looks to be a very weathered thirty something chap who outwardly by his gestures would seem to have a mental disability, sleeps perhaps under a fir tree whose lower boughs touch the ground at their extremities forming a tent. I had a feeling someone was was in the vicinity when traces tobacco smoke tickled my nostrils I was not alone. But guessing it was the same man we had seen on our evening constitutional I was unperturbed by his presence, but I walked on.

After three years this new garden in Launceston is becoming something worth looking at and at last subjects to photograph.

I grow blueberries because they are always expensive and many from the supermarket are tasteless. I grow mine in big pots, a few early, a few mid & too many (is it possible) late season varieties but this year one variety decided to turn red just a little lovely surprise of Autumnal colour!

Something nice on an evening walk, this lovely Little Grey Heron decide to roost in a tree rather than by the rivers edge.