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Still life with Marigolds
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Flower of the Day challenge
A fellow blogger, Cee, offers us a challenge to take a photo of flowers every day.
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Flora of North Sydney
Sawmillers reserve has a wonderful array of native plant-life.
This lovely yellow inflorescence looks like an orchid, however, the size makes me doubt. The flowers and leaves are arranged as one would expect an orchid to be, but the inflorescence is easily the size of two adult hands. Stunning.
With my legs, this is as close to bushwalking that I get these days. Toward the end of the track, there was in fact an unsealed section, which, for a moment had me wanting to throw on a khaki safari suit, and take the water flask from my hip… not really though. It was nice to be amond the gums.
The photo does not do the berry, or the little blue flower justice, I’m afraid. The berry itself was a bright but deep blue, possibly Elaeocarpus reticulatus, while the flower, looking like a wild Lobelia, was a lighter blue, but not as washed out as my poor photography skills would have you believe.
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River Views
Where I painted the Ghost Gum yesterday was on the banks of an often forgotten river in Sydney called Cooks River. Here are some photos from a wonderful park on Permanent Avenue where you can access the river. I hope you enjoy them.
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Flowers
Just because I have taken so many lovely pics of flowers recently and I wanted to share some, even though there is not a challenge with that theme anywhere.
Dave
SHARE YOUR WORLD – 2016 WEEK 14
If you could hire someone to help you, would it be with cleaning, cooking, or yard work?
I have before hired guys to help in the garden as I am just not capable anymore. Nowadays though, I am not too capable with the housework either. So if I could hire a live in guy to do both gardening and housework it would be awesome. I enjoy cooking though, so it would be a trade-off. He cleans and gardens and I fill him with good food.
What makes you laugh the most?
Intelligent wit. The type you find on British comedies or aussie humour like comedians Adam Hill or Graham Norton.
My latest dad joke: Why don’t Whales have balls? Because they can’t dance.
What was your favorite food when you were a child?
When I went to visit my grandfather, he would make a big pot of Sago pudding, just for me and him. Much to the disgust of my mother, we would not even use bowls but eat it straight from the pot. It was a special time that he and I shared. None of my other brothers liked it, just me, and he never failed to have some waiting when he knew we were going to arrive.
List at least five favorite flowers or plants.
Lagerstroemia Indica. Commonly called Crepe Myrtle
Wysteria grandiflora: your common Wisteria
Buddleia davidii: I think its sometimes called Butterfly bush
Tibouchina Alstonville: sometimes called Lasiandra
Brunsfelsia latifolia: yesterday, today and tomorrow.
Now I realise that all of these plants have purple flowers. How odd as I don’t necessarily like purple elsewhere.
Others I would include are Jacaranda (also purple), fuchsia, freesia, and frangipani. Some fuchsias and freesias are purple but frangipani is white, or yellow, or sometimes pink. I prefer the white.
Bonus question: What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?
I am grateful for my time spent at The Big Issue, last week, and this week I am looking forward to finishing a couple of essays I am working on.
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