THIN BLOOD TRAILER
Monday, 6 December 2010
Amazon Best of 2010 Customer Favorite
I'm thrilled to announce that my novel THIN BLOOD has been named an Amazon Best of 2010 Customer Favorite. It's unreal to think that not only is it the only Australian (I think) ebook in the top 100, but that I'm in such esteemed company as the likes of Harlan Coben, Lee Child, James Patterson, Tess Gerritsen, Mary Higgins Clark, Kathy Reichs and many more NYT bestselling authors.
Labels:
Writing
Wednesday, 1 December 2010
Tuesday, 30 November 2010
Sawfly Larvae
Thank you to Don Herbison-Evans for identifying these for me: http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/none/sawfly.html
Labels:
Insects
Tuesday, 9 November 2010
Monday, 8 November 2010
Eastern Snake-necked Turtle (Chelodina Longicollis)
We don’t why, but this is the second time an Eastern Snake-necked Turtle has laid – or tried to lay – her eggs in the rock-hard clay driveway next to the house.
“Nests are constructed in clay soils by exuding copious quantities of cloacal fluid…
Nests are constructed by drilling in the sand and earth using the feet, eventually creating a circular hole. Nesting occurs in spring or early summer (November or December). Females usually lay one clutch of eggs annually of between 6 and 23 eggs. The volume of C. longicollis eggs is between 4.0 to 6.7 ml. The eggs are an ellipsoidal spheroid shape. Incubation time is approximately 3 to 4 months after which the embryos cut out of the shell using a nasal ‘tooth’.” – James Cook University
At the top of third photo, you’ll see car tyres on concrete – that’s the carport. That’s how close to the house the turtle is laying her eggs.
“Nests are constructed in clay soils by exuding copious quantities of cloacal fluid…
Nests are constructed by drilling in the sand and earth using the feet, eventually creating a circular hole. Nesting occurs in spring or early summer (November or December). Females usually lay one clutch of eggs annually of between 6 and 23 eggs. The volume of C. longicollis eggs is between 4.0 to 6.7 ml. The eggs are an ellipsoidal spheroid shape. Incubation time is approximately 3 to 4 months after which the embryos cut out of the shell using a nasal ‘tooth’.” – James Cook University
At the top of third photo, you’ll see car tyres on concrete – that’s the carport. That’s how close to the house the turtle is laying her eggs.
Labels:
Reptiles
Thursday, 4 November 2010
Wednesday, 3 November 2010
Tuesday, 2 November 2010
Saturday, 30 October 2010
Friday, 29 October 2010
Thursday, 28 October 2010
Wednesday, 27 October 2010
Tuesday, 26 October 2010
Monday, 25 October 2010
Thursday, 21 October 2010
Wednesday, 13 October 2010
Tuesday, 12 October 2010
Monday, 11 October 2010
At a Bend in the Driveway
LOOKING TOWARD THE ROAD |
I took these two photos standing at a bend in our driveway: one looking down the drive toward the road, the other looking up the drive toward the house. If I remember, I’ll repeat the photos at the height of summer.
LOOKING TOWARD THE HOUSE |
Labels:
Other
Saturday, 9 October 2010
Pacific Gulls (Coffin Bay SA)
From the archives: May 2009 Coffin Bay, South Australia
Juvenile Pacific Gull |
Adult Pacific Gull |
Labels:
Birds,
South Australia
Friday, 8 October 2010
Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos
A family of Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos arrived this week and proceeded to decimate our wattle trees to get at the wood-boring grubs deep in the branches and trunks.
Labels:
Birds
Thursday, 7 October 2010
Wednesday, 6 October 2010
Eucalyptus Flowers
Like many related plants, the conspicuous parts of the flowers of the majority of the species are the stamens, the male parts of the flowers. These surround the central stigma which arises from the flower's ovary. In Eucalyptus and Corymbia the petals and stamens are fused into a cap called an operculum which covers the flowers at the bud stage. As the flower opens the cap is shed. It is, in fact, the operculum which gives Eucalyptus its name (eu, well and calyptos covered). – Australian Native Plants Society
Labels:
Flora
Tuesday, 5 October 2010
Monday, 4 October 2010
Friday, 1 October 2010
Thursday, 30 September 2010
Wednesday, 29 September 2010
Tuesday, 28 September 2010
Monday, 27 September 2010
Sunday, 26 September 2010
Friday, 24 September 2010
Thursday, 23 September 2010
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