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Susan McCreery

@susanmccreery.bsky.social

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Writer. ALL THE UNLOVED out now. Retired proofreader (90 issues!) for Australian Geographic. Still work for trade publishers. Newbie freediver. Ocean, flowers, movies, birds, books, cats, silliness. Thirroul/Dharawal, Australia. susanmccreery.com.au

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Susan McCreery @susanmccreery.bsky.social · Nov 8

The colours and textures of a little afternoon beachcombing.💫

Motley collection of sea glass & bits of shell laid out on a rock. Sea in background on a clear day.

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Susan McCreery @susanmccreery.bsky.social · 1d

Athens morning.

Morning in central Athens. A lamppost (+ shadows on shutters), two women walking, two men talking. Sprayed on two shutters are the words: FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA and FREEDOM TO PALESTINE. The Greek flag hangs above the sign for Amelias Street.

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David C. Simon @davidcsimon.bsky.social · 1d

Eastern Spinebill enjoying our callistemon.
#birds

Photograph of a small honeyeater perched on a thin callistemon (bottlebrush tree) branch ending in a bright red flower resembling a bottlebrush. The bird is orange, black, and white, with a long curved black beak. Its red eyes are as bright as the flower.

As before, but a tighter crop, and the bird now has its beak buried in the flower as it drinks nectar. With the light at this angle the crown of its seemingly black head shines with iridescence.

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Susan McCreery @susanmccreery.bsky.social · 1d

I have stayed in the past. I am reconciled to (and grateful for) visits now.😊

Susan McCreery @susanmccreery.bsky.social · 1d

Not this time...

Susan McCreery @susanmccreery.bsky.social · 2d

From yesterday (for today dawns cold and windy, and I leave for Athens soon before the long haul home).

Sunrise from beautiful Koufonisia, with Amorgos in the distance and the uninhabited Keros nearby. I'll miss these waters.

Sunrise view from the sea. A shadowy island in the distance and the dark silhouette of another nearby.

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Susan McCreery @susanmccreery.bsky.social · 3d

You're most welcome.💜

Susan McCreery @susanmccreery.bsky.social · 3d

Persist and resist.

These tiny beauties are popping up across the dry Greek landscape right now.

#FlowerReport Koufonisia🌸

Colchicum variegatum, a flower with six petals & six stamens blooming in rocky soil. It is a kind of chequered mix of purple & white. Grains of sand lie in its centre.

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Susan McCreery @susanmccreery.bsky.social · 4d

Agree!🥰

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WA Orchids @wa-orchids.bsky.social · 5d

Endemic to southern parts of Australia, the carnivorous Pimpernel Sundew (Drosera glanduligera) with its lovely orange flower. This one was growing on a lush bed of moss and was covered in early morning dew drops

#ozflora #wildoz #fierceflora #nativeplants #inaturalist #nature

A picture of a small sundew with carnivorous leaves at the base and an orange flower at the top of a short stem. This plant is growing on a lush bed of moss and is covered in early morning dew drops

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Susan McCreery @susanmccreery.bsky.social · 4d

So do I!

Susan McCreery @susanmccreery.bsky.social · 4d

Here's a little care & kindness from Greece for #caturday.

An orange, white & black kitten with golden eyes.

Two kittens (the orange, white & black one + a soft grey one with an injured face) snuggled together in a flowerpot.

The same two kittens curled around an adult orange, white & grey cat on a chair.

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Susan McCreery @susanmccreery.bsky.social · 5d

Greek doors, an occasional series.

Fournoi 🇬🇷

Weathered double doors painted a lovely turquoise (?) with no handles & a cat flap (?). An old dried-flower decoration hangs from the lintel.

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BinChicken24 @binchicken24.bsky.social · 5d

Some unusual orchids from around my area. Very little research done in the South East of WA, so new hybrids and species are often found.

A hybrid orchid, Clown orchid x white spider orchid.

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Chris @leftychris.bsky.social · 5d

Barely discernible chick hiding in the Dad-cave.
#tawnyfrogmouth #ausbirds

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Susan McCreery @susanmccreery.bsky.social · 5d

🥰🌊

Susan McCreery @susanmccreery.bsky.social · 6d

Magnificent!

Susan McCreery @susanmccreery.bsky.social · 6d

Loved peeking into this yard and all its details: the drapery of yellow netting, the paint-spattered geraniums (carefully secured by multiple ties), the busted bucket, the red chairs... 🇬🇷

A small yard in Greece with a concrete floor, a blue door, stacked red chairs, yellow fishing net drying from a large tree, a broken pale-blue bucket, a geranium plant spattered with white paint (3 red flowers), a white-painted stone structure.

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Lee Madgwick @leemadgwick.bsky.social · 6d

The Conekeeper’s Cottage

Acrylic on canvas

A small dwelling with a collection of traffic cones stored next to it, plus one on the roof. A telegraph pole and long shadows from roof beams also feature.

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Susan McCreery @susanmccreery.bsky.social · 6d

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Susan McCreery @susanmccreery.bsky.social · 6d

The water in Greece. No words.🩵

Light on water of all colours as seen from a rocky cliff. Koufonisia.

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S. K. Riley @skriley.bsky.social · 7d

Pink Mulla Mulla

(Ptilotus exaltatus), extremely drought tolerant, is widespread from the south-west & north-west coast of Australia, through the Northern Territory, New South Wales, Queensland & South Australia. Also known as Pussytails or Platinum Wallaby.
#Bloomscrolling #MullaMulla #AusNatives

Pink Mulla Mulla: The flower spike has a pink to purplish head that extends above the foliage, which lengthens from a conical into a more cylindrical shape. Extremely drought tolerant, they grow on rocky slopes, gravelly, clay or stony plains and sand dunes.

Ptilotus Exaltatus ‘Platinum Wallaby’ or the Pink Mulla Mulla a sun loving compact Australian perennial plant. Ptilotus mulla mulla has a rosette-like silver-gray foliage and produces an interesting, eye-catching feathery small silver and purple conical flowers.

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WA Orchids @wa-orchids.bsky.social · 7d

A morning spent investigating rock pools is always a morning well spent 🐚🦀🪸

🐚 Whalers Cove and Little Beach, Albany

#wildoz #WesternAustralia #rockpool #ocean #nature #inaturalist

Rockpools dotted along an exposed rocky area with the sea visible in the background

A Common Buscuit Star (Tosia australis), a green six-armed sea star sitting on a bed of seaweed known as Neptune’s Necklace (Hormosira banksii)

An red coloured anemone (Isanemonia australis) in a rock pool

Drift wood on the sand of Little Beach with the waves of the ocean crashing in the background

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Susan McCreery @susanmccreery.bsky.social · 7d

A delicate balance.

Kato Koufonisi 🇬🇷

(the orange beyond is a swimmer with a tow float)

A wafer-thin rock, one end resting on land & the other sloping down to rest on a rock in the sea. An orange inflatable tow float is beyond.

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Chris Hail @hailtheyounger.bsky.social · 7d

Green rosella 🪶, Port Arthur TAS
#ausbirds #wildoz

Photo of a green rosella perched among blooms in a flowering shrub. It is a medium sized parrot which is not green, but largely bright yellow on its head and front, with blue wings. Its cheeks and chin are also blue, and it has spots of red feathers just above and below its beak, which is white.

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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 7d

Now here is somebody the world really should mourn

Here is a woman deserving of all the accolades and all the glory and all the stars we have in our heavens

One of the brightest, most compassionate, beautiful humans to ever walk our planet

May you fly high O Captain, O glorious Captain

❤️ 🐒 ❤️

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 7d

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

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