Right now Little Darwin is being bombarded . There are daily explosions , missiles flying about the place, inside and out. It is due to the many desert rose seedpods which opened in the hot, dry weather , the flocculent seeds ready for exodus , blown about by increasingly strong winds.
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Ready to fly .Vallis photographs.
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Many of the floating seeds turned up in clusters near the kitchen door . Handfuls were picked up , taken inside , placed in a bowl (below) only to be regularly blown about the house , turning up next to the refrigerator , a bedroom, in a corner being culled , near the TV set in the loungeroom.
The bowl, with a birch tree pattern , was made by Canadian studio potter Peter Price , bought at a garage sale. It sits near a 1986 sign advertising the art of Roy Henry Vickers, at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria , British Columbia, Canada , also picked up at a Queensland garage sale .
