And the Poinciana’s gone CRAZY! Which is just amazing of course. If Jacaranda is the tree for Spring and Frangipani for Summer, Poinciana is to bridge the gap between 🙂
I’ve been told the reason the trees are so packed with bright red flowers is because we haven’t had any rain yet to knock the flowers down. It would be nice to have some rain though, especially for the farmers in regional areas. Summer is great, but if it’s not flooding, it’s drought.
Anyway, I found the last dregs of the Jacaranda blooms:
The Frangipanis are getting started too…
And I found some surprise sunflowers! They’re on the fenceline of an apartment block, so I’m not sure who tends to them, but they look great!
I love walking around my neighbourhood to see the change of the plants and the seasons. We don’t have ”proper” seasons in Brisbane but we do get some beauty from nature to tell the turn of time. I really should post my photos of flowers more, or just whatever I fancy taking a photo of. I love seeing other people’s photos, like on Midwestern Plants or Tea and Paper or To Search and Find Happiness Everyday (I’m sorry if I missed anyone!), so I’m going to do it too 🙂
I took these photos Tuesday afternoon, 18 November 2014.
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Your post reminded me of that Iris Murdoch quote: ‘People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.’ 🙂
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What is it about flowers that can cheer us up? Pretty colours abd shapes, that’s all, but they can be so heartening 🙂
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Flame trees make me think of traveling through Queensland in 1991. Thank you for nostalgia this morning 🙂
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Flame trees! Such a cool name for a beautiful tree. I should have mentioned that in my post… Oh well. Thanks, I’m glad it brought back warm memories 🙂
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I’d love to see your photos, and thanks for mentioning me as a blog you look at photos on. I sometimes wonder if I post too many, but they make me happy and that is what blogging is all about for me.
Hope you have a great Sunday.
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Yep, the photos definitely make me happy too! Please keep posting!
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Hi Marigold, thanks for linking my blog, and thanks for these beautiful flowers photos. I miss them, here is everything ice and white. Have a great Sunday!
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Ice & white sounds lovely too. Well, it sounds lovely to me when I’ve never had to deal with it! I’m sure the snow is lovely to look at 🙂 stay warm!
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Soooo gorgeous! I would love to be with you right now, it is snowing outside… but we didn’t get the 5-7 FEET they got on the East Coast!
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I saw that on the news! Crazy snow. We’ve never gotten anything like that in Aus. At least, not in populated areas. I think it snowed in Hobart once 20 odd years ago but it wasn’t deep at all.
I hope you’re keeping warm with cocoa and slippers 🙂
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I feel so bad for those who suffered the madness of such deep snow. We are fortunate, only got a couple feet, and it is gone now. It has been snowing today, but it was warm the last couple days, so no accumulation. Still wish I could afford to visit you this winter! 😉 Hugs!
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I can’t get my head around it being summer somewhere. It snowed here yesterday.
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Snow must be lovely too 😀 but I guess it makes the fishing and exploring the wilderness more difficult… Seems like the whole of America is having an early winter over there, or does it always snow late November?
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It’s different depending on what part of the country you live in. In the Rockies, it usually snows around late November, but then it goes away for awhile.
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Lovely to see your beautiful flowers there as I sit in a motel room with rainy and cold skies overhead. We’re back in Canada. It’s quite a shock after coming from the lovely weather in Korea:-)
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You’re back in Canada? For Christmas holidays? I promise I’ll hop on your blog and see what you’ve been up to, once I’m off work and back home in Brisbane — should be tonight or if not tomorrow. The internet got knocked out from a thunderstorm up at work so I’ve only had the limited capacity of my phone to rely on 😦 all the posts I’ve done for the last week were scheduled from when I was on break.
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Hi!! Yes, we’re back in Canada! I’ve applied for a job here and waiting to hear if I got it. I haven’t posted on this because it was a pretty fast decision to make the move. I haven’t had much access to internet in the past little while either, so have been a little out of the loop. We’ll see you later;-)
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Good luck with the job!!! Best wishes for the holiday season too 🙂
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Thanks Marigold!! It hasn’t been as easy as I thought it would be, but I shall persevere!!
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