Lying beside one of the paths through the local Waitpinga bushland is a pile of bark. It has been there a while. The pink gums (Eucalyptus fasciculosa) are shredding their bark and the pile keeps changing due to the strong coastal winds. Occasionally, when I am walking by whilst on a poodlewalk, I casually toss another piece of bark onto the pile, to see what happens.
This picture of the same pile of bark was made about a month latter (8/2/22).The bark was much drier then:
There had been some hot, summery days since the subtropical rain in early January when it had rained for a day or more. This kind of rain in the summer months was an unusual occurrence.
Then a couple of weeks latter in mid-February as the bushland developed its normal summer look I snapped this photo:
All the above photos were made in the morning around sunrise due to the prevalence of brown snakes in the late afternoon. There was no concern with these photographs to be poetic, or to represent natural beauty or the sublime. It was the mundane changes in the pile of bark over a six week period that I was interested in.