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 spring flowers  trips to Toowoomba for special occasions  always enjoy seeing these grain silos again...  and of course the jacarandas were looking good too  love the Brisbane architecture, in particular this house as I pass by each trip another old Queenslander house and sometimes even the army is on the move... It has been quite wet lately after a VERY LONG DRY spell...and I have had several trips to Toowoomba, the Garden City for several reasons... and I notice the next folder of photos hasn't been edited yet, so they will have to go in the next edition...hopefully next week!! Hope you have a great week! May God Bless You. and a Happy Thanksgiving!!

a typical old Queenslander of fairly sentimental value where we used to live sometime ago... I drove past it the other day....and decided to take a photo...not that the kids would remember really....

Out and about today, I came across these two old Queenslanders, as I was exiting a car park over the road. A Queenslander can be a person who lives in the State of Queensland, as I do, in Australia. Or a an old house that was built in the same state. Today I am mostly talking about the houses. They are older wooden houses, with corrugated iron roofs, mostly with a verandah, but not always. Quite often elevated, to allow cooling breezes to flow underneath, since our subtropical climate is mostly warmer rather than the few weeks of winter weather we experience in the middle of the year. Dear Nimoola here on the right, has clearly seen better days. With a couple of broken windows in the front there, I doubt that it is occupied at the moment. the one on the left in the original photo, on the other hand, is much cared for and loved by the looks of it. Many of these old houses are sometimes used for businesses in local areas. Or bought up, put up on stilts and built underneath for extra r...

To Brisbane, the State Capital, where the Brisbane River meanders through the city, and gracious old Queenslanders (that's the houses) adorn the banks of the river and many of the streets where the weather they say is beautiful one day and perfect the next....mostly. Where there are purple houses...and the weather now is 30 degrees celsius and the humidity about 100% Queensland, where we have just had the worst drought in living memory, where floods happen at a moment's notice (last week)...and where the traffic banks up for miles on different roads in different directions, because of a malfunctioning traffic light (this morning, where I live). Please note, not all the houses are purple, nor are they all old Queenslanders. Some, or should I say many are quite ordinary little brick boxes. Of course there are many expensive mansions too. Welcome to the sub-tropics. Where mangoes fall off the trees, papaws and pineapples delight, and the best beaches only an hour away.