#wall ferns

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Wall fern forest. An unprecedented third consecutive La Niña weather phenomenon is predicted for the East Coast of Australia between 25° and 35° south this spring/summer. Flooding events are already happening in the bush, after last summer's devastation that resulted in 30+ deaths and a whole town of 35,000 folks being washed away and destroyed. The Sydney basin was not spared, especially at the foot of the Blue Mountains. The Inner West was largely unscathed, but the constant rain made this old part of the city smell like mould and there was a proliferation of wall ferns everywhere that are still going strong. Climate change is right here, right now. Make no mistake. Petersham.

[vanishingsydney]

Blue Dog. The building next door has clumps of vegetation growing out of the brickwork. Perfect weather for wall ferns. Sydney had 300mm+ of rain over a few days last week with bad flooding in the major river basins temporarily displacing 70,000 folks from their homes, but most of them are still standing. The clean-up relief money is on the way. It's created a huge amount of landfill and the city's Northern Beaches are littered with flood debris - again. The Inner West went largely unscathed as the Cooks River held. Don't start telling me something's not going on. Newtown.

[vanishingsydney]

Rain, rain, go away. Yet more wall ferns. Newtown.

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He always had that aura of detachment about him. Enmore.

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Two-storey timber cabin about ten years old, perched on the edge of a old Sydney Sandstone quarry, now used as a car park. Marrickville.

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More wall ferns. Marrickville.

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More wall ferns. Annandale.

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John While & Sons building. A corner of a metalworker's spring factory built in 1903 after the company was established in 1886. The largest spring factory in Australia at the time. One of the earliest examples of re-purposing into a mix of  warehouse apartments more than 30 years ago. Petersham.