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My old lady's got a Bunya on the nature strip out the front of her place.


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I got it for her as a 10 cm seedling about 30 years ago from the actual Bunya Mountains because she wanted to make a bonsai out of one. "It got too big for the pot", she said.


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This staghorn fern attached to the trunk of the tree is about
2 metres across and also came from the Bunya Mountains.​


Every year the Shire Council puts that "Do not cross or you're gonna die" tape around it.
 
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Akhenaten said:
My old lady's got a Bunya on the nature strip out the front of her place.


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This staghorn fern attached to the trunk of the tree is about
2 metres across and also came from the Bunya Mountains.​
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Can you do a zoom on the middle of the staghorn? I think I see Worf in the centre of the image!

It would appear... He is the Messiah!

Actually, that makes sense. With his security role, he has access to weapons that allow long distance smiting, he can make food appear merely by talking to a wall, he can mysteriously vanish from one place and reappear in another, he can breed with humans and produce his only begotten son, He lives above the sky, He has been in TNG, DS9 AND movies based on the franchise (ie, he is three in one), He is from the stars.

WORF! WORF! WORF!

We are not worthy...
 
MG1962 said:
The Archibald was announced today

http://www.news.com.au/entertainmen...-archibald-prize/story-e6frfmqi-1226314608445

I was looking through the finalists and was shocked to know a former member of a writing group I belonged to Nick Stathopoulos had made it into the final
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With a portrait of a woman I used to work with. Fenella Kernebone was a presenter at SBS when I was a Floor Manager.

There is also a portrait of Adam Cullen, a bloke I used to drink beer and talk crap with many, many years ago.
 
Visit New South Wales - see naked birds!


The first retrospective of the work of John William Lewin (1770-1819) is being staged at the State Library of NSW this year. Mitchell librarian Richard Neville will present a detailed survey of the artist's life and art, focusing above all on his work The Birds of New South Wales (1808) - a masterful work containing hundreds of sketches and paintings of birds bursting with colour, movement and life.​


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New Holland Honeyeater
(Phylidonyris novaehollandiae)
by John William Lewin​



Lewin was the first trained artist to document much of the flora and fauna of Sydney and its surrounds and his work secured for him the honour of becoming an associate of the Linnean Society in 1801. Despite the renown which his work achieved and the wide subscription he enjoyed, only six copies of of Birds are known to exist, one of which was the personal property of King George III.​


Read more about the exhibition at:

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And more about the artist himself at:


 
The Australian wants me to pay to read the article, but the Australian Dictionary of Biography entry is fascinating. Real research went into it.

I find it wonderful that Lewin's first retrospective is on at this late stage of the peace. History is alive!
 
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