Annie's Blog

 one day in this kitchen I noticed almost everything on the little island bench was orange  the lovely old water dragons are slowly emerging after our winter  I can never work out whether this is an egret or a cormorant, maybe someone will know? The weeds appear to be taking over in the creek ...  on my rambling walks I notice the spiky grass is seeding/flowering the waterlilies are coming back again  the brillantsia is flowering again...or is it brilliantasia... I can never remember, they did tell me at the herbarium in Brisbane once when I went to get it identified..  a wonderful rose that this photo does little justice to  can you see the bridge between the trees?  love these colorful ..crotons??  and this little fountain type sculpture at the cafe up the road ... (hard to get in a spot for a good photo )  the orchids above and the bougainvillea below are flowering too  but it is so so dr...

Many thanks for the wonderful provision of fresh fruit around us for dancing ladies and agapanthus flowering a rainy misty morning...looking out over Mt Cootha from my morning walk cheerful bougainvillea and poinciana blooms for highways and freeways and byways for the rain, even though it was very heavy in patches, and not very heavy in other places Greetings and a Happy Thanksgiving to you from Sippy Downs, Australia.

Good to wake early enough to see the sunrise sometimes I remembered to take my camera on my morning walk I just love the bauhinias.. . and this lorikeet was close enough to get a fair photo another bougainvillea whew, I made it back up the laneway, getting a little fitter and faster at last

some sunny days some rainy days

Mum's dancing lady orchids are flowering again beautifully again. It is so lovely to see them again. It reminds me of how much she was a much better gardener than I am. the petria next door is looking pretty good.... today's story involves the borrowing of a ladder the painting of a balustrade and an awful sickening crash into a pane of glass... fortunately no awful injuries, only bruises luckily I had to be there for them when the man came to replace the glass... Thank God for his providence and mercy.

an iris I found after church this morning a bougainvillea at Bribie Island during the week... flowers on the kurrajong tree this morning at church.. I don't know the name of this bush above, but it had a very pretty flower. Did I say how much I love the irises? even the Christmas bells were out in full bloom... Remembering 9/11