Annie's Blog

 I don't think I showed you the view of the Glasshouse mountains in the last post?  please excuse the hazy view. One does need to be there at the right time on the right day to avoid the haze spoiling the breathtaking views.  A short walk through the rainforest there  info about one of my favorite rainforest trees and some lovely fungi...  a parasite living up high in the tree  ah, somewhere to sit!  I love the patterns the shadows make in the forest  some tangled roots and more shadow patterns too Oh, and here's the blue crochet rug that occupied me during most of the winter...fun! Hope you have enjoyed catching up here. Hope you have something to enjoy doing too!! Be well...enjoy the rest of the week!!

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.

all good things must come to an end... but with a couple more days left, a visit to a garden planted with native plants of Australia... quite near this wonderful old mansion on top of a rise...on the outskirts of Melbourne... everyone seems very interested...and very knowledgeable too! a quick duck into the local library on the way home...where the author Allan Marshall is remembered in a sculpture outside a lovely old wooden train bridge passes by... the mobile library is visiting because of the renovations at the library.... and back home...where is the cat? What are you doing up there gorgeous? Not looking for birds or possums are you? I know you only bring in mice...and maybe a rabbit? lovely colored fungii on the walk down by the river... bucolic... do we have to go back yet...couldn't we stay and chase rabbits for a bit? The Yarra River looking pretty good...well, at least these are some of the better photos I have taken down there...maybe it is because it is so green now, an...