Visual Diary

Searching for trees whose leaves change colour in the autumn is not an easy thing here.

Not many trees shed their leaves in autumn here but eucalypt trees do shed their bark.

I like this photo for Mother's Day because the shorter daisies look like they are aspiring to reach the level of the taller one_ she being the role model as are many mum's out there are role models for their children.

The creamy flower from one of the species of gum trees in Australia.

We had quite a bit of rain during the second week of the holidays,

which probably helped the spinach in our school garden to grow this well.

Today was grey day. It rained incessantly all afternoon

and into the night. These flowers from a neighbouring

garden added a splash of colour to my day.

hibiscus in the rain

Created with fd's Flickr Toys

The white stands out against dark green foliage.

The Banksia was named after Sir Joseph Banks, an English botanist,

who journeyed to the Great South Land in 1770

with Captain James Cook, on the Endeavour.

I hope to take another photo when these are ripe. I hope mum doesn't

have them picked before I get that chance.

I love watching lorikeets because they are such larrikins.

I find them hard to capture though as they usually perch too high for my A550 to handle. This one is on a lower branch (but still had to delete plenty of blurry ones.)