some rain and a drive in the country

we have been having some lovely follow up rain after our good shower a week or so ago.
I noticed the poor scrub turkey sheltering high in the bushes during the rain....


this fungus on this tree appears to me to be flowering....?
a drive in the country...not too far from the city...




there used to be an old friary out here....I remember the fellows going to uni on the motor bikes with their habits flowing...seemed very funny at the time! But I am not sure that there are any of them left there....I think the Anglican church uses it for other purposes....
the flowers at home....
even the petria is flowering now....

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The week's flowers

Some pretty flowers during the week, mainly up on the range in Toowoomba....petunias...
jacarandas....
hibiscus....

cactus type flowers....

silky oak....
someone told me this is a yukka....but I googled yukka and I don't think it is now? Found another one out at tennis and they tell me it is a pony tail palm, a native of Mexico...

The "Ponytail Palm" is really not a palm at all. It is a member of the Lilaceae (lily family), and is known as "elephant's foot" because of its bulbous base. It is native to the desert of Mexico and is somewhat of a curious interior landscaping plant. Likes full sun to part shade.


lovely pretty white pink flowers above,
and a protea....

and back down in the city, my dancing lady orchid....
azaleas.....
irises....
above a yesterday today and tomorrow....
a double hibiscus....
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Just because

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The skies lately

This photo intrigued me the other day, as there was a shadow over the house which looked a bit like the trunk of a tree behind the house!
I love it when the sky goes all inky like this!
and these shots of the moon looked quite appropriate at the right time for Halloween!

a quick trip up the mountain for another birthday party, brought a trip to the gardens....still clear blue skies mainly...
the resident bat population was a little disturbed there early one morning....


as the sun sets over this building, it reminds me of an ocean steamer ....

And at the time of going to press here , we are expecting some slow moving storms to come in soon....ah the joys of the weather predictions...

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