Annie's Blog

On one of the last days of April, the beautiful tree down at the Inwood Hill park peninsular was showing its fast fading colors. I thought it fitting somehow that an elderly couple had chosen to sit under it for my last photo of it. and of course the elusive but absolutely beautiful lilac has been a popular favorite in May and a humble geranium holds third spot...in honor of my daughter and her family who have housed me here in NYC for over a month while they settle down after the birth of their new (second) baby...it is one of her favorite flowers. And now I have a confession to make as we admire this purple beauty...I am going to have to cut the adjectives, because I have included 17 more of my favorite photos from May, especially these ones from our trip to the New York Botanical Gardens last weekend. please feel free to skip them if you don't have the time to peruse but I think you may enjoy them, especially these cat tails and this striking one as well ad now we have some from...

Some flowers from earlier in December when we went to Spring Bluff/Murphy's Creek down the range from Toowoomba for a family baptism..this vase of flowers in the little country church was exquisite I thought.... even the little wildflowers were out in the carpark in the churchyard. Spring Bluff is a railway station between Murphy's Creek and Toowoomba half way up the range....there is a lovely picnic area there, and the station is always a wonderful sight in the spring with spring flowers...they wern't doing a bad job on a hot day at the start of summer! Lovely little pansies and some begonias .... and a wonderfully vivid geranium...I love this color! this is a terrible photo of the wonderful "cassia" (?) in my front yard...I have taken so many photos of this tree, why can't I find a decent photo when I need one? and of course the frangipanis are still flowering away out there...I love the orange one I found down the road a bit...the pink one is in my fro...

This week's Flowers....from around my neighbourhood...Some lovely bougainvillea down the road.. A very interesting large flowering tree...I should have shown you the size of the tree...I don't know what it is...it looks neither like a gum nor a wattle..tho the flowers are slightly reminiscent of, but much larger than a wattle. and some colorful geraniums! The jacarandas continue to be wonderful! a bunch of irises in my neighbours garden......from over the fence as I walked past! the asparagus fern burst into bloom. I don't think I have ever seen it quite like this! a sleepy hibiscus flower early one morning...not quite awake! I may have posted this oleander last week too.. And a great surprise..way up in my chinese palm tree...it is flowering away! Very pretty...this is the closest my camera would get to it! If you would like to see more MY FLOWERS entries from all a round the world, please click on the MY FLOWER'S icon on the top right of my sidebar!