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Friday Hoydens: Jazzy Women

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This post was inspired by this great gallery on Slate: Jazzy Women. (I only just discovered Slate’s Today’s Pictures feature – fascinating photos every day.) The gallery has 30 photos of fierce, passionate musical women – highly recommended. Here’s just… Read More ›

Virtual Traveling: Stourhead, Wiltshire

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Stourhead is an absolutely stunning landscape garden set in a river valley in Wiltshire which has been artfully dammed and diverted to make for a lovely meandering promenade with plenty of spots for sculptures and architectural follies to be scattered – it was one of the first gardens to be created according to the principles of the English Landscape Movement. There are also more rambling woodland walks full of enormous rhododendrons and other flowering shrubs amongst the trees.

Endangered Sunday: Bilbies

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Kids around Australia know the bilby because of a successful program begun over 10 years ago to encourage people to give chocolate bilbies to kids at Easter instead of chocolate bunnies

Yep, very helpful

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While I have been taking the pics, cropping them in Photoshop and composing this post, that paw has varied in position from pointing to 2 o’clock to pointing to 5 o’clock.

Endangered Sunday: Andean Condor

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I took these photos earlier this month at Taronga Zoo. This juvenile condor is part of the captive breeding program there, and these shots were taken while she performed in the famous Free Flight Bird Show.