Annie's Blog

wonderful white nasturtium and pink hibiscus off for a walk... someone's drying their jeans on the fence in the sun.. frangipani don't know the name of these pretty flowers... having fun picking some wildflowers for mummy admiring other people's gardens on the way home.. nice petunias making a pretty show in the front garden...

Life is slowly returning back to normal in Australia. Hopefully. Well, that is if you call recovering from the many natural disasters Normal? Except for nasty bush fires threatening houses in Perth. Some 60 houses have been burnt there in the last few days. Towns are still flooded in Victoria...and there is an awfully massive clean up to get on with in North Queensland. Saw that there was a street with 150 houses, in just one town, of which 128 are not viable. Help. And that is just one town in the cyclone affected North Queensland. Repeat that many times, and especially for the floods in many other towns in Queensland, especially major towns of Brisbane, Ipswich and Rockhampton. Sydney sweltered through a week of above 35 degrees celsius. The other night at midnight their temperature was 33 degrees. Whew. Fortunately they had a respite the next day in the form of a cooler change. (Just putting some of the previious remarks from my sidebar back here where they need to go )

I noticed these fungi the other day in the car park at tennis... can you see the tiny little ones there, wish sometimes I had a better lens. But I think these are pretty OK. Remembering the people of New Zealand today, as they struggle with rescue and recovery after their terrible earthquake in Christchurch. Prayers for all concerned there.

A few of the wonderful summer flowers, that help me keep my sanity in this hot humid weather.. fragipani ivory curl, or buckinghamia there were three koookaburras came and swam in the pool pretty early one morning a nasty looking spider took up residence outside downstairs the strelitzia is also flowering I think this might have been a case moth trying to hatch himself...maybe that is why the kookaburras, and also a wonderful Whip bird were around this week. had a few trees tidied up around the yard the zygocactus was looking pretty the other morning early never know whether to call this a cassia or an indian laburnum and this dancing lady has turned white...I thought they were supposed to be yellow... a view of the city on my drive out to the university the other day hard to believe that these garages had water almost up to the first floor there during the flood and these shops just down the road from the uni were also under water...the students who live around there will surely mi...

What is this photo all about? Well, do you remember when the river flooded...(can you see the dirty flood line in the trees there)? well, back then I took a little drive down to my local hair salon...wondering if the lady needed any help... well, it looked like some people had been to help ... it had been all cleaned out ...after 6 feet of water had inundated the place... and now, she is back in business with lots of help from her family and even though the brick walls still seem to be seeping the place is looking great again I even had my haircut! So nice to see a fast turn around to a difficult flooded situation.. Prayers for my brother in law in hospital in Chile...may God go with him and his wife.