Annie's Blog

  oops...an out of focus photo of the beach apartments...  the beach was visited on a rainy dreary day...  we have had many of them!!   above, one of my favorite puzzles!!  and a sweet potato was found in the cupboard...a little out of control!! love the petunias at this time of the year...very cheerful...

It is all about perspective isn't it? About getting down on our knees for a better shot. At life, and love. HUNGRY FOR SOMETHING MORE another wonderful post about community and renewal  from Ann Voskamp's blog A Holy Experience Some wonderful words, as well as beautiful photography!

wonderful white nasturtium and pink hibiscus off for a walk... someone's drying their jeans on the fence in the sun.. frangipani don't know the name of these pretty flowers... having fun picking some wildflowers for mummy admiring other people's gardens on the way home.. nice petunias making a pretty show in the front garden...

Some pretty flowers during the week, mainly up on the range in Toowoomba....petunias... jacarandas.... hibiscus.... cactus type flowers.... silky oak.... someone told me this is a yukka....but I googled yukka and I don't think it is now? Found another one out at tennis and they tell me it is a pony tail palm, a native of Mexico... The "Ponytail Palm" is really not a palm at all. It is a member of the Lilaceae (lily family), and is known as "elephant's foot" because of its bulbous base. It is native to the desert of Mexico and is somewhat of a curious interior landscaping plant. Likes full sun to part shade. lovely pretty white pink flowers above, and a protea.... and back down in the city, my dancing lady orchid.... azaleas..... irises.... above a yesterday today and tomorrow.... a double hibiscus.... For more flowers from contributors around the world...please click on the Today's Flowers icon over in the sidebar....

I found these trees on the way home from tennis...I had to turn around and find somewhere to park (in a lady's driveeway) to get this shot. Flame trees are just stunning when you see them, especially when they are growing beside a jacaranda ! and of course the carpet the jacaranda leaves on the ground....apologies to those who saw them during the week...(I couldn't wait till Sunday)... a lovely floral arrangement at dinner during the week...I think that looks like a bromeliad flower.... a funny little ochna flower...I just discovered it is also called the mickey mouse plant...a shrub that was introduced to Australia from South Africa in the early 1900's (I think).... a lovely garden I pass on my walk...the pink flowers were petunias I think! and my pink flowering tree (which I had identified as a Lagunaria patersonius during the week from the herbarium at Mt Cootha)...more commonly known as a Norfolk Island Hibiscus apparently...is nearly finished flowering...very sa...