Annie's Blog

a wonderful bromeliad was flowering away out there last week... my poor camera, or perhaps I should say photography skills doesn't do it justice and the new old house I pass on the way home, opposite the produce barn..I'd like to know are there bits of the original house in there...I suspect there might be ...it sure was a very old house once upon a time.

I went up to visit the little people the other day...this lovely tree grows up there I wish I knew the name...very pretty and this wonderful tree was outside the Caloundra library where I had to return the children's library books on the way home I think my sister said it was a Callistemon (I don't even know how to spell it properly) but my memory could be wrong I thought the tree looked very much like a paperbark, but the display of flowers was amazing. And on further perusal of my sister's email reply she includes this reference which helps to explain the difference between Melaleucas and Callistemon, and I am happy to report that I am almost right...in fact the Queensland Herbarium branch would agree with me! ;-) what a great place to have to go to return library books... I even got to glimpse the ocean and the passing cargo traffic a surfer emerged out of the ocean just as the cargo container ship passed by and closer to home the autumn leaves are doing their th...

admiring the zygocactus and reflecting on the view some leaves I found before communion and a wonderful wattle outside after church. I must be trying to get used to the fact that blogger says to me they are going to make me use the new interface soon...so of course I actually loaded these in the wrong order. Though of course on a restful Sunday while one is trying to get rid of the virus and sinus infection, it doesn't much matter which way we view them..I just love that wattle...everything seems to be happening earlier...it isn't winter officially yet, and yet we have had overnight minimum temps under 10 degrees celsius all week already! Any wonder the wattle thinks it is time to flower! I don't mind. A sight for sore eyes, especially when I have to sit up the back, skip the actual communion and the chat with coffee after, and go home, trying not to pass on the virus! A new heart I will give you And a new spirit I will put within you Ezekiel 36: 26

just nearby in leafy Brookfield, a little rural show is held in May each year past the General Store watch out, here comes the fire engine! and a very old American police car (I presume) then into the craft pavilion to admire the needlework and the quilts wonderful... amazing! an unusual quilt preserves in the cooking pavilion and yummy sweets and up the hill to the Arts pavilion.. next to sideshow alley! I always enjoy the photography... these cute koalas were peeking out and of course I can't resist strelitzias but this one on the left was the best in the show... time to leave the arts now and head out through the entertainment up to the car park....and home...not a bad little show...though I fear the mood is somber this year after the events of the last month or so. May it not be long before the police make a breakthrough in the recent murder case out here. The showgrounds were the center of the police hunt for quite a while.

Had the wonderful fun of accompanying a little grandson on the city cat along the river leaving Southbank where we had found a playground, eaten an icecream, but didn't swim at the little beach, because of a bad cough past the Performing Arts Centre and the Museum, Art Gallery and State library complex..all newly renovated after the big flood...guess some of those roof gardens didn't need watering for a long while under one of the many bridges...I never know their names, I'm sorry past this funny little structure near a factory on the other bank and an old lighthouse and coming up past the Regatta Hotel loved the historical picture of the very first cross river ferry...where people had to jump into the rowing boat whatever the level of the river... another City Cat arrives the finish line for the famous Regatta races they had every year...wonder do they still hold them, thought they shifted out to somewhere else once? and walked past the old Toowong library where I took so...