Annie's Blog

Last weekend I was in Toowoomba, on my way home from church on Sunday, I took a little drive through the center of town where the events of January10 were to prove disastrous flooding in these streets and normal little waterways... claiming lives, and cars in the inland tsunami there It was all so unbelievable, I am still trying to get it all sorted out in my mind where it all happened... this mild looking creek was to cause the worst devastation and loss of life as it could no longer cope with the copious amounts of runoff coming down the mountain, and roared through the sleepy little towns of Murphy;s creek, Spring Bluff, Helidon, and the badly devastated little township of Grantham and from this very high vantage spot a humble little cactus and the Brisbane river below showing the flood marks from weeks before and this flimsy fence was all that stopped me from tumbling over the edge of the very high bank of the river...glad I don't live here to worry about kids and grandchildre...

Last week I found the LOTUS flowers out at the Botanic Gardens They grow in this tiny little rectangle outside the library and admin buldings. the native bees thought they were pretty good too! then I went in to look at the bromeliad display...this one was most unusual! even the cycad was in flower outside...it is a long time since I lived in Darwin on 5 acres and had these growing all over the place meanwhile back to the bromeliads...a lot of my photos were out of focus..silly me, as I had the camera on the wrong setting... but this one wasn't too bad.... another look at the lotus on my way out! Then the pink flwoering tree down the road was out...so I took a photo of it...unfortuantely this isnt it...this is mine in a previous year...my flowers this year are coming out slowly one by one... It is such a pretty thing, and I don't even know the name and the poincianas are coming out too...just as the jacarandas are fading...it seems early for the poincianas... I went u...