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Bees & Bugs, Flowers

Gum tree blossom (Corymbia calophylla)

Photos from my walk this morning. The little gum tree near our side yard has just started its flowering with the prettiest gum blossom I’ve ever seen. The colour is so subtle, shades of pink and yellow with the white. I’ve used part of the first photo in my new header.

Gum tree blossom, Nokia Lumia 520, auto, cropped

You can see how the blossom unfurls from the gumnuts, after pushing off the cap.

Nokia Lumia, 5MP, auto, cropped

This is what the empty gum nuts will look in future … you wouldn’t think it was the same tree.  Some type of bug infestation or disease is causing blistered leaves.

Spider shell & silk, Jan 2015 (Nokia Lumia, 5MP, auto)

Another? The bee looks to be hanging on tight. The wind was blowing the blossom about. It’s cloudy again today, maybe will reach 25-27C.

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If you are trying to recall the old header. It was something like this. 😀
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Bee on mint.

Sent from my phone. Nokia camera on auto, cropped, and ‘fixed’ which yellowed the bee a bit. 🙂

NEXT DAY: Adding a second photo – same bee, cropped, but not ‘fixed’ with the magic wand. I’ve never used the wand before, and wanted to see what would happen. You can see he is not as golden. The original of the other photo has vanished, else I would have shown you that. I’ve also cropped the first more, it had a bit too much of the out of focus mint blossom. (I’m standing over the mint, looking down)

Nokia Lumia, 5MP, auto, cropped, fixed

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Nokia Lumia, 5MP, on auto, cropped only

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