Annie's Blog

just nearby in leafy Brookfield, a little rural show is held in May each year past the General Store watch out, here comes the fire engine! and a very old American police car (I presume) then into the craft pavilion to admire the needlework and the quilts wonderful... amazing! an unusual quilt preserves in the cooking pavilion and yummy sweets and up the hill to the Arts pavilion.. next to sideshow alley! I always enjoy the photography... these cute koalas were peeking out and of course I can't resist strelitzias but this one on the left was the best in the show... time to leave the arts now and head out through the entertainment up to the car park....and home...not a bad little show...though I fear the mood is somber this year after the events of the last month or so. May it not be long before the police make a breakthrough in the recent murder case out here. The showgrounds were the center of the police hunt for quite a while.

This notice has nothing to do with libraries, cycads or such like.... I went to return a library book yesterday.....and this weird plant was flowering outside in the garden... it helps to go to the library at the local Botanic Gardens...as there is always something interesting to look at and photograph....some of the Bromeliads were flowering... there was gorgeous old cycad ...probably of the zamia family.... which had all this interesting stuff going on in here.... looked like a plant from outer space... Cycads are some of the oldest plants on earth, and apparently were around in the Jurassic age...whenever that was. According to a little from wikepedia on the subject... Modern knowledge about Cycads began in the 9th century with the recording by two Arab naturalists that the genus Cycas was used as a source of flour in India. Later, in the 16th century, Antonio Pigafetta , Fernao Lopez de Castanheda and Francis Drake found Cycas plants in the Moluccas , where the seeds were...