Annie's Blog

First of all, some orchids from my front yard ... then some images taken from Queen's Park in Toowoomba. We have been very lucky to have seen them all, especially since it is about 3 weeks until their Carnival of Flowers parade. because of the warmer weather, everything seemed to be flowering earlier. The rununculas were looking great.... the pansies striking but my absolute favorites this year were the white and pink beds.... how pretty they were.. I haven't actually seen them do a bed like this before that I can remember.... But of course the irises were amazing as usual...I love irises, especially the blue and purple ones! For more flowers, please click on the Today's Flowers icon in the sidebar...

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...