Wednesday afternoon
Wednesday afternoon winter sunshine. It’s not a complex proposition 🙂
Wednesday afternoon winter sunshine. It’s not a complex proposition 🙂
Letters from America
Sunday 23 July 2017
Yesterday I went to a small event at Sydney University. It was held to celebrate the planting of two new flowering trees in the Main Quadrangle. These trees replace the old jacaranda which graced the Quad for years but which had expired.
It was a glorious day and the sandstone buidings looked beautiful.
The alumni organisation gave commemorative bagdes to guests (including to your glamorous aunt MG).
So this picture is a selfie – my phone camera insists on putting rays in which gives me a halo (oh dear).
Here is one of the trees, the flame tree.
And here is the badge. It has a stylised depiction of the contrasting colours of the flame and jacaranda flowers.
MG xx
in an almost perfect world
Letters from America
Wednesday 19 July 2017
When I take my long walks in the winter evenings I often pass camellia shrubs heavy with flowers. I brought a few home this last week.
This morning I found two of my recent prizes on the carpet. They had dropped out of their bases and landed face up. It’s the same habit you see in the garden, a sodden layer of face up camellias surrounding some shrub. They defy the cut flower industry. I don’t think I have ever seen a camellia in a florist’s shop.
So this post is just because the camellias are such lovely oriental beauties. They may be domestic flowers but they don’t co-operate entirely with the domestic program.
MG xx