Seed balls are an easy way to revegetate arid areas - seeds are rolled into balls of clay and dry compost and scattered into reveg area, and the weather does the rest. The recipe is on the Path to Freedom site, sent in by Rose.

Image source: Path to Freedom

The rains are working their magic through the ranges with a flush of radiant vitality. A stunning array of diverse characteristics are bringing the hills to life. Enter green to the wonderful Flinders Ranges pallette!

Earth Observatory is a NASA site with long range animations of land and sea temperatures, radiation, water vapour, vegetation, cloud fraction and other elemental distributions. Check it out, cloudspotters.

Submitted by Nigel 

Keep up with the weather imagery of MTSAT-1R through the excellent Japan Meteorological Agency website. Cloudspotters, bookmark it!

Photograph: Maynards Well 

Photograph: Anne-Maree

Photographs of dust storm heading for Copley by Nigel Carney 

Happy happy 12th birthday to our favourite baker of the Flinders Ranges and green thumb garden fairy, Moggsie. xxx

Photograph by Rose, more of the skies in the Gallery.

Post submitted by Rose

Photograph source: Adelaide Advertiser