The Average White Band
White flower in the front garden of a house along Nursery Street in Hornsby - northern Sydney.
I often walk along this street as part of my mega trek from Cherrybrook to Wahroonga.
It is, I would argue, an average white flower!! It was part of a band of average white flowers in this cottage garden. But nevertheless they looked quite magical in Sydney's soft rain.
Photographed last November (2020).
The cottage garden also features white roses and white hydrangeas, and a magnificent, huge, white-flowering dogwood. It is the garden of Dorothy who has lived here for over 50 years. She and her husband brought up their daughters in this house. The house belonged to her parents before that. Circa 1920. Her husband has now been dead for 22 years but she still tends the garden.
Recently I gave her my 'Firefighter', 'Valencia' and 'Best Friend' hybrid tea-roses for the front garden. I purchased them last year but, given all my time constraints, they were still in their pots from the nursery!! But now they are in Dorothy's garden. And I will be able to pop over, as I do from time to time to keep her company, for a cup of English breakfast tea and a biscuit, and see the roses from the front porch. Dorothy is 85 years of age today - 9th August, 2021.
My Canon EOS 5D Mk IV, with the Canon f 2.8 L 100mm macro lens.
The Average White Band, of-course, is famous for its mega hit from 1975 - 'Pick Up The Pieces'. There are a number of versions.
Here are two versions:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpflST8xWm8
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnH_zwVmiuE
But one of the best 'live' versions is by Candy Dulfer!! Very funky and cool.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgQQ7k30Ti4
The Average White Band is also renowned for their hit 'Cut The Cake'.
The Average White Band
White flower in the front garden of a house along Nursery Street in Hornsby - northern Sydney.
I often walk along this street as part of my mega trek from Cherrybrook to Wahroonga.
It is, I would argue, an average white flower!! It was part of a band of average white flowers in this cottage garden. But nevertheless they looked quite magical in Sydney's soft rain.
Photographed last November (2020).
The cottage garden also features white roses and white hydrangeas, and a magnificent, huge, white-flowering dogwood. It is the garden of Dorothy who has lived here for over 50 years. She and her husband brought up their daughters in this house. The house belonged to her parents before that. Circa 1920. Her husband has now been dead for 22 years but she still tends the garden.
Recently I gave her my 'Firefighter', 'Valencia' and 'Best Friend' hybrid tea-roses for the front garden. I purchased them last year but, given all my time constraints, they were still in their pots from the nursery!! But now they are in Dorothy's garden. And I will be able to pop over, as I do from time to time to keep her company, for a cup of English breakfast tea and a biscuit, and see the roses from the front porch. Dorothy is 85 years of age today - 9th August, 2021.
My Canon EOS 5D Mk IV, with the Canon f 2.8 L 100mm macro lens.
The Average White Band, of-course, is famous for its mega hit from 1975 - 'Pick Up The Pieces'. There are a number of versions.
Here are two versions:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpflST8xWm8
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnH_zwVmiuE
But one of the best 'live' versions is by Candy Dulfer!! Very funky and cool.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgQQ7k30Ti4
The Average White Band is also renowned for their hit 'Cut The Cake'.