Around and About

Two photos of the open parkland between our suburb and the next. The white fence on the right is our vegetable garden fence.


Parkland on the other side of the street leads up to a Reserve which is a great favourite with walkers. Great views of Canberra and suburbs can be seen from the top of the hill (see Posting of July 7th).


Broad Beans flowering. Pretty flowers but they still only produce green beans.


The 'elusive one'. I'm sure he's checking to see if I'VE thinned out HIS vegetables correctly!


Self-sown Larkspurs.


Phormium (NZ Flax)


Aquilegia (Columbines/Granny's Bonnets)


Pink Gazanias, Yellow and Burgundy Arctotis, Purple 'Winter Joy' Wallflower and one red Sweet William.


Lavender and bees.


More Arctotis.


Violas (Little Johnny Jump-ups) under the Birch tree planted by ShellyC's parents-in-law on their first visit to Australia from Switzerland.


Cytisus (Broom), Grevillea and Claret Ash (but not Claret until the autumn).


Now if only these 'Blue Poles' supporting the Sweet Peas were as valuable as the Jackson Pollock painting (now valued around A$54m).


White Banksia Rose.

Blogging Gremlins

Is anyone else having problems with their comments not registering? I always 'Preview' my comments now, in case I've mis-typed the 'Word Verification' (let's face it, I often have trouble reading it, let alone typing it!) and even though I'm sure I've pressed 'Publish this Comment', sometimes it doesn't appear on the relative blog.

Another hiccup that's really starting to bug me is when I access a blog and the first posting that appears may be several weeks/months old. This happens everytime I go into 3 blogs that I can think of. I either have to go into 'Archives' and call up Current Posts or in one case I have to go to the bottom of the page and press 'HOME' to bring up the lastest postings.

Perhaps it's all a not-so-subtle hint from a higher power that I should do some work instead of blogging.

A Closer View.

This morning I thought I'd try some close-ups. As you can see, the results are variable. Lots more practice and understanding of the instruction book needed.

Malus (Crab Apple) blossom with friend.


Abutilons (Chinese Lantern)




Irises.






Ranunculus and butterfly.


What would we do without Centranthus/Valerian? Richard would say, "Quite a lot!"


White Osteospermum, orange Arctotis, with a once variegated Abelia in the background.


This beautiful Acer Palmatum 'Seiryu' should be about 4 times its current size but it's been suffering from 'dieback' for years and we've had to keep cutting off branches in an effort to get below the disease. It's now only 1 metre high and wide and the branches are coming out of the trunk almost at ground level. We are not very hopeful of saving it.


Tanya, it's still alive and flowering although few buds this year. Probably needs a jolly good feed after all these years.


It's a shame that I can't arrange flowers. My florist daughter, ShellyC, would never make an arrangement like this and then have to put it on the floor to photograph it.