Annie's Blog

The skies in Toowoomba up the mountain last weekend were pretty good...at the Picnic Point lookout. The storm approaching last Sunday when I got home! Luckily there was no damage here, but.... The Prime Minister came to visit the disaster area this week. The following images I took off the tv last night... There has been much damage in many places , not only from the bad storm on Sunday night, but also from floods last night. We had 4 inches of rain here over night..some places had more! SES volunteers are stretched, trying to get tarpaulins on houses...and insurance assessors also extremely busy! Many people are not able to sleep in their homes...I think they said that there were at least 80 houses that were unlivable, 6000 homes damaged...and that is before the storm that we have just had tonight (thursday) just after I wrote this! One of these lovely old pine trees was struck by lightning the other day! From being in the middle of the worst drought in living history...to some ...

What better R word than RIVER...but I am not sure whether you can see the RIPARIAN buffer...that is a new word I learnt during the week (pertains to river and creek banks)! This is the Brisbane River at Mandalay. The ROADS are important R words. ROOVES are important too. They help to keep out the RAIN...there are quite a few people in Brisbane tonight who wish they had a roof over their heads. Not only the homeless, but those who lost their rooves in the storm on Sunday night! RETRIEVERS are handy too sometimes! I enjoy READING...do you? and RAINBOWS..everyone likes rainbows, I think! REFLECTIONS are always interesting! so are ROCKS...always fascinating. more old corrugated rooves of Brisbane. and the REGATTA hotel is a local landmark at Toowong that I forgot to include on my world post the other week. The RIVER Hudson from the ROOFTOP barbeque in New York. The scrub turkey loves RAKING my leaves for his nest! What are they doing at the local RAILWAY station? ROBBIE loves...

On my way out to Brookfield, I saw all these amazing clouds rising out of the horizon, so I stopped and tried to take a photo..not very successfully though. While I was taking the photo ..a crow came along and hopped up onto a branch of the jacaranda tree! There is a lovely rural suburb near me, complete with Showgrounds. And every year the Quilt sitters group has their annual exhibition there. You can just see the mountain beside and behind the building there. These lovely ladies were doing a great job taking our money...and selling raffle tickets ..to win the quilt in the background. Seems as if I didn't win it, as I didn't get a phone call...but then again, the BIG storm that hit Brisbane would have hit them just as they were packing up out there on Sunday afternoon! I haven't heard how they got on in the storm, luckily it was ok here, but a couple of suburbs over, the Prime Minister has just been up to visit and it has been declared a disaster zone. Amazing what a d...