The march of the seasons in Manilla.

Most of these photos appear with weather reports in this blog. They show features of the small country town of Manilla, in the part of New South Wales, Australia that is called the “North-West Slopes”. That is, the area of hills and plains inland from the Northern Tablelands (or New England). Manilla is on the Namoi River, which flows west to join the Darling.
Nearly all of these photos were taken in the month or season of the weather report where they appear. Most of them show trees, shrubs, or plants that are native to the area.

White Cedar in May

November Silky Oaks

Manilla Weir Fish Ladder

Hidden Dragon

Persian silk tree

“Native Apricots”

Redjack Mountain

Corellas in Acacia decora

Native clematis

Mugga Ironbark Blossoms

Fragrant white cedar blooms

Baby Laughing Kookaburra

Wood Ducks Predator Drill

Senna-leaf circles

San Pedro cactus blooms

Blooming Wonga-Wonga Vines

Shower on the Tablelands

No-rain Rainbow

Wonga-Wonga Vine

Blue-faced honeyeater in a White Box tree

Commelina cyanea in Monash Street

Manilla Sunset

Knife-leaf Wattle

Tiny Dragon

Flowers of Silky Oak

Flourishing local Saloop saltbush

Weeping Myall

House at Monash St Manilla from NE

A case moth

Giant Mixing Bowl Thermometer Screen

July sun heats the house

Red flowering gum

Thieving Magpie

San Pedro Cactus 2017

Sweetest Jasmine

April-blooming Deane’s wattle

Autumn bluebells

Eastern Bearded Dragon

Namoi River Fresh

A neighbour’s dam

Low Level Lennie

Schoolyard Lemon-scented Gum

A hedge of western golden wattle

Eucalyptus albens in bloom

Cooba in February

Crepe Myrtles in Arthur Street

Chinaberries in winter

Early-blooming hardenbergia

White Cedar caterpillars.

Manilla Prospect in July

Oil Engine’s Day Out

Kangaroo Thorn

A shower on Mt Baldwin

White Box at Sunset

Noisy Miner in Emu Bush

Wilga blossoms in June

Eucalyptus leucoxylon in winter

Noisy Cockatoos

Brushtail Possum

the heavens’ embroidered cloths

“Old Man’s Beard”

Nodding Chocolate Lilies

Showers at 130 kilometres

Gumnut and Gum-Blossom

Young Cooba

Jewel-box Cassia

Roadside Pavonia

Clear-story fan set for winter

Lenticular over Warrabah

Grantham’s Stone Bridge

Kurrajong in Drought

Painted Box Tree

Wind-blown Sugar Gum

White Box Trees Die

Greenness that thickens

King Parrot in Hopbush

Wonga wonga in spring

Stick Insect

Eucalypt Silhouette

Bushfire at Warrabah

Storm at Dusk