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Published: 2014-03-21 10:28:54 +0000 UTC; Views: 674; Favourites: 45; Downloads: 0
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For fellow Australian friends and [almost here] (who I'll educate yet
) And Sweet Cher too 
An assortment of leaves, nuts and other items fallen from trees that I've collected on my walks this week. On Monday we walked 10 kms (6 miles), Wednesday 7 kms, and today (Friday) 8 kms. I think that's enough exercise for one week
If you have any questions about the items let me know and I'll do my best to answer 
The yellow flowers are not naturally dried (as everything else is) but the parrots break them off the trees. I have this 'basket' on my coffee table as a display right now. The bowl is actually turned from grasstree (foreground of thumb below) wood and was turned by my grandfather.Kindly featured by Happy Birthday MayEbony!Today is MayEbony's Birthday!
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Oh wow, thank you so very much. I truly, truly appreciate the time and thought that goes into a critique and am always humbled when someone is so kind as to give me this gift. Your words seem very wise to me and I appreciate the hints for improvement as well. Many, many thanks Mako
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A beautiful basket of Autumn! Beautifully put together!
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It is amazing!
Can i use it for drawing, as a reference?
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I would be honoured, thank you for asking. Please let me know what you produce, I would love to see
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Wohoooo! Thanks! 
I have long list whit other references, i have lot of work, when you will be done, i will write to you!
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No worries
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Really, it is true! 
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Thank you so much for visiting, and for all the Faves too
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Thank you so much Mikey - and for the s too
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Thank you dear Renee
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I've got a couple of bowls like this 
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Beautiful, May 
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It's a lovely arrangement of different colors and textures. What is the item on the bottom right? It looks like a pinecone with really bad sores.
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Thanks Tricia, I'm so pleased you like it. I was expecting someone to ask about that and have been surprised how long it took. Love your description of it - very true!!! It's a banksia nut, which is what we end up with after the flower 'petals' (tendrils?) fall off and it dries over about the next 12 months or so. This is what a banksia flower looks like, and they come in various colours through yellow, orange and heading towards red.
and as they dry
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Thank you so much for the explanation. I would have never guessed that's what it was. I actually hesitated to ask because I wasn't sure if I was the only person who didn't know what it was. I even scrolled down the comments trying to see if someone had already asked about it first. Anyway, I'm glad I asked (I always love to learn something new everyday) and thank you for sharing both the beautiful photograph and your knowledge.
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That's OK Trish. I'm as sure as I can be that they only grow in Australia so you had no way of knowing. I think there are many uniquely things in there so it's not a problem at all. Perhaps you're The One who should be given a bravery award 
I love learning too, it's really exciting I think
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Thank you. I hardly think myself brave in any situation, so thank you for saying that.
An Australian endemic plant, even better. Australia is one of the places I wish to visit someday, so it's awesome to learn about uniquely Australian things like this.
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Sweetie
Oh that's lovely to know Trish. I hope you do get here.
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Thank you so much dear Mel, I really enjoyed gathering the items - purely random as to what I found as we walked - and arranging them
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"An assortment of leaves, nuts and other items fallen from trees..."
So this is a MayEbony family portrait?
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May, WOW [Woman's Own Wonderfulness] factor at play here, total awesomeness, thanks for this!!! It's a great selection of items after that great walking, could it be called a pot pourri, not sure? 
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Aaawwww what a beautiful comment, thank you so much! Pot pourri sounds like a good description, though I think strictly they are perfumed and this isn't, but yeah, sounds good to me!
Do you get the red, pink, orange and white flowers like this as well as the yellow? They're lovely aren't they? And I enjoy watching the stages of development too - how they literally burst forth after pushing the little caps off.
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My pleasure... 
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None so blind as a non-photographer or non-artist I think. I thought I'd always been keenly aware of nature, but I see it anew these days! This white one had fallen from the tree and landed on a cushion of moss, and here's a darker pink. I'll have to watch for the other colours. I haven't seen green so will try to keep an eye out. We probably have them here too.
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Yes, not truly green, but less yellow than some, perhaps!
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Oh thank you, Sweetheart. 'Semi-professional' sounds like a very great compliment to me. I've sold 2 greeting cards with my photos on the front through RedBubble and cried with joy so perhaps I am on my way LOL You keep at the personal reflections Poppet 
Men like being nagged or they'd do as they're told the first time! And...
What noise do piglets make? "Oinklet, oinklet!!!"
Are you sorry you know me yet?
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Oh, p-lease, the man jokes... made up? There must be something in the air at your place???
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Well I don't think that man 'joke' can be argued with so I reckon it's a Great Truth myself. By the same token there's a woman joke. Why do women wear make up and perfume?
Because they're ugly and they stink. Looking at it without emotion I don't see that this can be argued with either, can you?
Aahhh yes, I've heard that men want to die first, but if they'd just do as they're told their lives would be pure joy - you know that don't you?
No, not running again yet. After a total break for 8 weeks I may as well keep up the fast/distance walking until the weather cools down and then see what happens. Extra time for full healing isn't a bad thing either.
Yes, it was a true thrill to make a sale. They don't tell you who made the purchase but I guessed because it was made in Canadian $$$ and it was a dear friend from on here Gigi50 That's awesome about your print - which one? And the books photo too - congratulations!
Oinkment for ailing pigs. Uh huh
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I feel I've suddenly stumbled into a quicksand type swamp, where if I say something, anything, anything at all, it will mean, in a stream of consciousness devoid of meaning, or meaningful meaning, that fetid water will flood my mouth so any attempt to speak will then be rendered un-intelligible [so what's new, she thinks], even allowing that something intelligible might have proceeded, from, as it were, my mouth to your ears!
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I should print out your first paragraph and use it as my personal warning to all who interact with me past the point of 'g'day, how are you?' You've summed it up very nicely and it's a state that I enjoy between myself and male friends (of the ilk that understand me well). It's never quite as fun with female friends, for reasons I can't explain. You know, I found out a lot about myself when I worked (with roughly weekly visits to their office) with a person named Chris. I knew them for about a year, and never did discover their gender. To start with it left me feeling a little uncomfortable; which was my problem, not theirs. And then I realised that I treat men and women differently and that the discomfort was through not knowing which 'treatment' to give in this situation. I presume I'm not unusual to treat men and women differently? I feel that I can be more open with men - that there's no undercurrent, no risk of being misconstrued - but that may have everything to do with my upbringing rather than who I would have been otherwise.
That's awesome about your photo. It's beautiful. The stats on it are incredible - over 4,000 views *and* Faves and many downloads. And the sale, of course! Have you only just put the 'sell download for points' on it? I don't allow the free download on mine, though of course right-click-save-as is always there for anyone. Hopefully that doesn't give them much in the line of quality. By the same token I have watermarks and wouldn't deface my art with one. One of the people I watch has lovely photos but they're all defaced with a massive watermark so I don't fave those that I would otherwise.
Of course they're jokes. If we both laughed then they qualify - in my opinion. You did laugh... didn't you? I did.
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