The House(s) of Fran_mart

 I glanced at the back garden today and was struck by the flowers therein.  So here are some pictures.  One of the aims of our shrub planting was to hide the some ugly infrastructure: it does a good job of storing rainwater and keeping Bowerbirds off the vegies but isn't visually appealing.  The flowering shrubs are much nicer. A large Grevillea. Euphorbia: we have planted these in several spots. A strange bottlebrush plant: I can't remember the name but it may be a Melaleuca : M. incana fits well. Two Prostantheras A purple bush: again can't remember the name but its covered with flowers and is about 1.5m high!  Frances' records show it is Polygala grandiflora and will go up to 2m. Yellow daisy: again planted in several places. Succulents in many places.  No idea of the names. A strange small plant growing under a camellia. 2 Hebes A cluster of Freesias and an Iris. Iris: I think we got this one from a head of tubers outside someone's house in Reid ACT. A close u

 There was a rash of media commentary a few days ago about the Peregrine Falcons that nest of 376 Collins St, Melbourne.  This seems to have been catalysed by a bit of Game of Thrones type behaviour  (ie two tiercels having a turf war in which the previous male - to quote from Lonnie Donegan's recording of the Battle of New Orleans - came off rather ignominiously.  Also the eggs were seen as likely to start hatching in the very near future. So I bookmarked the Mirvac site - just a webcam, no emotive witter- and started watching.  I have evolved a few tricks to make gathering snips easier.  Most of them are illustrated in this snip. (1) shows the time and date an image was taken.  That is very useful if someone else posts a screen dump and you want to see what led up to the shot (or what happened next).  By way of example, the image Julie posted as a comment on my Facebook post). (2) is basically a 12 hour (I think) timeline.  So if you clock on the middle of this it takes you back