Carrie sent an email showing how to sort the images which I used to good effect when I replaced the three new ones. Disruptions to the site really take it out of me and, alas, I tend to send some incoherent emails as I grapple with what needs to be done. The upsets this time and in 2024 are likely due to WordPress having to support so many images online, a seemingly inherent fault of the site. Watch this space.
I emailed Carrie Wilson of Scenic Rim Design, accepting her Hosting and Care plan for my website which she sent an hour ago, but could not attend to immediately. Keer Moriarty, the editor of the Tamborine Mountain News, gave me Carrie’s contact information on 13.2.26 and Carrie and I have exchanged numerous emails since, which included a most helpful one on 24.2.26 which at last enabled me to upload three new images. Unfortunately, one of them ended up behind an image from last year and I could not find a means to change the sort order. There is a Sort Images panel at the top of the gallery, which I opened and foolishly hit on the first of the four options. Immediately the gallery was made unrecognisable and it became clear that the only way order could be restored was for Carrie to install the website database to 26.2.26 which she did on 4.3.26, requesting confirmation that the Albums are in the correct sort order, which I provided.
I wanted to photograph the cycad for several days. It had been relocated to the edge of a block which was cleared of buildings and vegetation. It was beginning to establish itself when a fierce wind split the trunk, causing part of it to fall to the ground. The trunk can grow to a diameter of 80 cm. Its outer layer is covered by the persistent remains of leaf bases. The cycad is an ancient, long-lived and slow-growing species, which is endemic to coastal south-eastern Queensland and north-eastern New South Wales. The cylindrical cone is among the largest of all cycad cones.
The fungi, which I photographed today, were among several growing on or near the same tree stump in Central Ave which I photographed in April 2025. I sent the mycologist three images, hopefully of different species, and I await a reply from him.
Further texts were exchanged about the admin site and I told Jackie that I would rather not hand over a site with such a glaring fault to a new developer and that I would pursue contacts after my return from New Zealand.
I photographed a bumper crop of Bunya pine cones in the park opposite my unit, the first since 2018, and a month earlier than then. I believe there are more cones on the ground now, but far fewer Sulphur-crested cockatoos to gorge on the feast. The cones in the photos are a fraction of the number of cones scattered around the park’s four Bunya pine trees. We are unbelievably fortunate in having two distinct kinds of subtropical rainforest in Southeast Queensland; namely the lush rainforest hereabouts and the cool subtropical rainforest of the Bunya Mountains, a three and a half hour drive away.
After a deal of texting about the admin site gallery problems, Jackie texted me to say that she can no longer look after me and offered to find a new developer. I believe her work situation has changed, but she gave no reason.