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littleredplanet

Native Texan who now calls a small ridge in the Dandenong Ranges, Australia home. <ul><li><span style='color: #ff6600;'>Tweet me sometime</span><br><a href='http://www.twitter.com/littleredplanet'>@littleredplanet</a></li><li>My Blog Space <a href='http://www.littleredplanet.com'>http://www.littleredplanet.com</a></li><li>Flickr Gallery <a href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/littleredplanet/ '>http://www.flickr.com/photos/littleredplanet/ </a></li></ul>

Name:

dale rogers

Location:

Melbourne, AU

Gear:

Canon EOS 400D, Canon Powershot and a really crappy phone camera

Started On:

10/30/09 (Day 136)

About Me:

Native Texan who now calls a small ridge in the Dandenong Ranges, Australia home.


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Sitting under the Maple tree and I noticed a beautiful sky framed by the trees.
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My little Willow after she asked me to pick one of the giant roses in the backyard. Afterwards she stuffed the rose into the ground and poured water on top. I hope she's not disappointed today when the rose is no longer a rose.
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Today was Melbourne Cup Day - a State holiday for a horse race! I had a little extra time so I edited this photo of Willow on the trampoline. I slipped in a recent Hubble Space Telescope shot of the Orion Nebula as the background.
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The dog really did eat my homework!
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Back to the trees today. This was taken on a short bush walk the girls and I did behind the house. I loved the look of this old dead gum tree. It has a ethereal look about it from this angle.
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Walked out of the house to go to the shops and noticed this rainbow dipping into our little valley. I could see the end of the rainbow ... not far from my house however, some bugger had already taken the pot o' gold!
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Willow and I took a walk around the Mountain top today and the place was full of spring flowers. Here's one of my favs.
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Willow, Juniper and I went to the park this afternoon. It was really hot and Willow decided to talk off her shoes and dip her toes into a little stream.
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The tragic story of Dead Teddy ...
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Behold, the jaws responsible for the carnage on November 4, 2009 - Indy the Groodle!
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This is the elder daughter, Juniper, our Rock Chic.
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An armoury for little Fairy Warriors?
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“We may explore the universe and find ourselves, or we may explore ourselves and find the universe. It matters not which of these paths we choose.”
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We live in an area classified as extreme danger for bushfires - on the ridge of a mountain surround by forest. Last year 175 neighbors perished on Black Saturday as a result of fires. We packed bags and made ready to evacuate 3 times last year. The past two weeks I have been preparing the house for this years fire season. These two photos were taken off my back balcony in Feb 2009.
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It was a hot and sunny Sunday and Willow attacked me with the spray bottle.
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This is Banjo. A few weeks ago we had a massive thunder storm. We have not seen Banjo since the storm. Every day as I pull into the drive, I hope I might see Banjo stretched out on the front door waiting for us to get home.
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King Parrots & Crimson Rosellas are regular visitors to our house. Juniper loves birds and gets a big kick out of feeding them. Notice the female King Parrot on her head too! I took this photo about a mile down the road at a road side stop used by bus tour groups for feeding our native birds.
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Today, I was definitely off track! Puffing Billy railway running behind the house.
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Here's the ol' Puffing Billy just after I took yesterday's shot. I love hearing the steam whistle each Saturday morning.
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Fish ... here!
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Man, has this been a helluva week. I don't think next week looks any better. Took this one last night, about midnight, while playing with lighting from my desk lamp.
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“I've learned that: goodbyes will always hurt, pictures can never replace being there, memories forget the hard times, words can never replace feelings, and heros often go unsung”
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Rusty really loves sticks!
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<p>'<i>Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree, Merry, merry king of the bush is he, Laugh, Kookaburra, Laugh, Kookaburra, Gay your life must be.</i>' Australian Children's Song.</p><p>The laugh of the kookaburra always reminds me of why living in Australia is so great. Let's not take life too seriously and have a good laugh every now and then!</p>
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I just felt like today needed a little more red.
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Willow loves the trampoline. Here, she's soaring!
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Found this weird critter while cleaning up dead leaves around the house. Any idea what kind of spidy this is??
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All of my family ice skate. My wife and oldest daughter regularly compete. Tonight my 5YO had was in her very first figure skating competition. She did great and was a true performer. She won second place and we were really proud of her. Here she's being congratulated by one of the older girls.
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My shy 11 yo finally allowed me to take some photos of her. Today was a rainy day but we made the best of it.
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<p><i>Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us.</i><p/><p>It's the end of the month and time for reflection before heading into the whirlwind time of Christmas holidays. Here's 14 shots from the past 14 days of the top of a dead tree. I took these from my balcony.</p>
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