Another study of dead leaves in the Waitpinga bushland in the Fleurieu Peninsula. This was in  the spring of 2024.  Like the others in the series  the photo  was made whilst on an early morning  poodlewalk with Maya.      

This is a bushland that is slowly drying out from the decreasing  rain and increasing temperatures. It is slowly becoming hotter due to rising carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas).  The waste products of fossil fuels are still dumped in the air free of charge.

 In 2024 the planet’s annual temperature hit 1.5 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial average — and it was also the hottest year ever, beating 2023, the previous record-holder, while every year in the last decade has been record-setting compared to any of the years of the previous decade or, for that matter, the rest of human history. We are now looking at 2.0 degrees above. 

The blog  has now emerged into a notebook of photos and text. It is the  next stage towards making a photobook in that  the notes are the raw material to be used for the book, rather than just isolated posts.