Annie's Blog

besides the wonderful orchids blooming at home, I just love the ocean took these photos on my last trip up to the beach.. a bottle-brush growing beside the beach King's Beach Caloundra wonderful place.

early morning captures of even more orchids... and more to come too if the days are warming up to spring...why are the overnight temperatures still so low....it seems as if it has been a long cold winter here...despite out sub tropical position. Maybe I live a bit too far from the coast. It was still only 4 degrees celsius early this morning. Time to shift?

because the first orchids are out...

not a bad view in the morning from the new house not much furniture, but some paper and crayons produces the first drawing in the new house a lovely walk to kindy and some stripey effects on the side deck where baby M and I sat and had lunch, and played silly games with pegs... Mr Four and I went out down to the river one day, where there are some tall apartment buildings, holiday houses there was a parade going past right next door to the children's playground...I had to rescue acouple of children off this awesome play thing...it just wouldnt stop for them once they got going...wonder where their parents were? the weather was such that we even had a bit of a paddle...pity the pants that Grandma chose for him to change into, wouldn't stay up without holding them up... back into the long pants for more swinging and playing, and discovering the view wasn't bad along the river the war memorial was right there a couple of shots looking over the road, where we found a cute litt...

we all escaped the city to the country last weekend...we headed for the Gap in the hills ...Cunningham's Gap the reason we went was to help celebrate some birthdays...as soon as we got there someone wanted to know when they were going to have the cake! after the cake was cut and eaten, we went for a bush walk we even saw some black cockatoos...apparently these are very special in that they only eat the fruit/seeds/food from one particular sort of gum tree of course there were the usual wildlife and of course the usual watercourses... some strange letterboxes and gates but all the fun of an extended family celebration in the shadows of the Great Dividing Range but then we had to depart and say farewell to the country lovely to see the countryside again, and some green...

At kindergarten in the 1950's, dressing up for breaking up day, we used to call it here in Australia. at sister's wedding... going to uni, late teens with first baby, taken by brother in law out at a Research Property in Queensland with last (ninth) grand baby in NYC last year and concentrating on editing photos into black and white on the little laptop. I enjoyed putting these together. and I hope that you will enjoy visiting the other participants in the Brenda Photo Challenge this month. Just click on the link.

a couple of weeks ago I went over to the Botanic Gardens... I really love this old guy who just sits looking up at the sky.. Konstantin Tsiolkovsky fell deaf at the age of ten due to scarlet fever, and as school was no longer an option he turned to his love of rockets. Similar to Verne, even though Tsiolkovsky lived in a time well before space travel was considered possible, he is regarded by many to be the father of astronautics as many of his theories and ideas proved to be accurate and are still relevant in space travel today. So famous did he become that a spaceship was named after him in the television show Star Trek: The Next Generation . info on Konstantin from this post on this blog

A series of the latest blooms, taken mainly on a walk down to the shop...this wonderful magnolia in flower... the peach blossom in flower out at tennis last week.. and interesting plant I discovered, (above) but know not what it is... irises must be one of my favorites a quick trip over to an orchid show at the Botanic Gardens a week ago... some natives from my walk to the shops...I can never remember of they are grevillea or bottlebrush...or is a bottlebrush the same as a grevillea anyway? a poinsettia of the pink variety, taken from underneath and of course the NZ Christmas bush again...I think this has featured here before...grows fairly prolifically at the beach (Sunshine Coast)...and in New Zealand too I presume!