Another Photo Opportunity!

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Now that the old deck terracotta tiling has been ripped off,

the temporary surface is just too nice to waste:

It's the backdrop of this selection of wood fired ceramics in my collection:

Justin Lambert.
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Kyle Houser.

Adam Knoche.
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Eric Soulé.
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Mitch Iburg.
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Justin Lambert.
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JD Jorgenson.
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Patrick Rademaker.
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Steven Smith.
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Justin Lambert.
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Ian Winsemius.
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Adam Knoche.
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Simon Levin.
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Justin Lambert.
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Eric Soulé.
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Matt Kellerher.
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Josh Floyd.
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Having the upstairs deck re-tiled!

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The old porous hand-made terracotta tiles had to go

- they'd become totally unclean-able

(admittedly we haven't been re-sealing them every couple of years,

as one should, we now hear).

The new ones are porcelain tiles from Italy.

Here's the first day progress:

A New Dawn - Sunrise Five Minutes Ago

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Today's Walk - A Goanna, a Bull Ant, Another Goanna And an Eastern Snake-necked Turtle

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Where are the snakes, echidnas, platypuses and black cockatoos?
On my wish list, they are..

But today I got lucky on my walk, anyway:

Little Pied Cormorant (Phalacrocorax melanoleucos)

Goanna.

Banksia.

Bull Ant with her meal.

And she had her baby with her!

This is the second goanna.

Eastern snake-necked turtle, Chelodina longicollis.

Deep Creek, Sydney.