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We call this the 'secret garden' as when you're looking down from the house this part of the land is not so obvious as there's a large hedge with only a smallish gap where I'm standing to take the photo which divides our two gardens. The little bridge is covering a stream. The first tree on the left is a fig tree and the large tree centre stage further down is a walnut tree. The ploughed area to the right is ready for planting vegetables and the ploughed area to the left is for fruit. The two hedges you see on the left and right in the middle of the photo were cut right back as they had been allowed to grow too high. It's opened up the garden quite a lot. You can see lots of cut bamboo to the right further down. This took a lot of effort to cut down! It had to be done to allow the sun to shine on the new vegetable area. It was growing very large as the boundary between our garden and the garden of our neighbours out of sight to the right of the photo. Our neighbour was very happy that we cut it down as it was impeding the amount of light reaching her vegetable planting area (which is huge!). The green bags are there to put rubbish in as and when. There are two further terraced gardens down past the walnut tree and then the river. It's quite an area all told. Some of it, especially the land down by the river is allowed to grow 'au naturel'. It's just too much to maintain. I'm fortunate and lucky to have such large and differing types of garden/land with the house.
This is part of what we call the 'secret garden' as it's not so obvious looking down from the house that there is anything there behind the tall hedges, part of which you can just see to the right next to the stream. There is a narrow gap between the hedging and you walk through that then over the little bridge covering the stream. Those are two fig trees which have ivy covering their trunks (which I must cut off soon). You can see cut bamboo from the thicket of bamboo in the background which acts as a barrier between our land and the neighbours. The sun was setting and it was warm when I took this yesterday. The weather today is a different kettle of fish altogether - torrential rain and cold. We desperately need the rain though so I'm not complaining.
George Clooney listening to songs in the wood to push away the hellish temperature of these last and next weeks.
...Let me bring you songs from the wood
To make you feel much better than you could know...
Songs from the wood - Jethro Tull
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4UYX2qpUK0
Posted for Happy Caturday group theme: "Song, Movie or Book" for July 16th, 2022.
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Shelly-Ann, Ziva, Brad Pitt, Monica Bellucci have chosen the coolest place to avoid extreme heat. (37°C/98,6°F) 74% humidity.
They are under the walnut shadow.
I expect at least a couple of figs to ripen this year on my fig tree and I also pray that the birds keep away from them
Brad Pitt under the shadow of the fig tree playing with a twig for Happy Caturday's theme: "Summer Colors" ☼
He enjoys too much this kind of toy!
19/08/2020
Fig
I discovered this half eaten and half ripe fig on our Fig Tree. I suspect the Rainbow Lorikeets have decided they are ready to eat.
The Sydney Harbour Bridge amid one of Sydney's typical marmalade sunsets.
Photographed from my secret rainforest haven beside the harbour, just below the Mary Booth Lookout Reserve, at Kirribilli.
You climb down the sandstone steps and take photos beside the Port Jackson figtree and the palms. Later you can get gelato at Kirribilli's 'Gelatissimo', on Broughton Street.
Here's 'Lady Marmalade' by Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mya and Pink:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=puKhmJEIw3I
My Canon EOS 5D Mk IV with the Canon EF 16-35mm f/4L IS USM lens.
Processed in Adobe Lightroom.
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A fig tree In the Royal Botanic Gardens illuminated during the Vivid Festival, Sydney, Australia. It is the first time there have been illuminations and installations for Vivid in the Gardens.
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Illuminations of a fig tree in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, for the Vivid Festival 2016.
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Tree : SouthernMagnoliaShrub{Animated}*4Seasons
Grass : LB_OakGrass_Fall*Summer{Mesh}2Li
Hill : LB_Hill-v1{Low Li} 1
Credit @ Wood Works in Swank
Picnic table : September Picnic Table (copy)
Barrel flower : Barrel vase purple flowers
Barrel flower : Barrel vase peach flowers
Barrel flower : Barrel vase red flowers
Recline : September Garden Recliner v2 (copy)
Birdhouse : Boots 'n Birdhouse (copy)
Apple tree : BSHouse Apple Tree Single 1
Tree : BSHouse FigTree
Vine : BSHouse Grape Vine
Sunflower : BSHouse Sunflowers
chard : BSHouse Swiss Chard
pumpkin plant : BSHouse Pumpkin Plant
Credit @ Chez Moi Furniture
" My Little Garden Gacha"
Windmill : Windmill Decor CHEZ MOI
Fence : Fence Little Garden CHEZ MOI
Plant : Big Plant Pot CHEZ MOI
Plant : Small Plant Pot CHEZ MOI
shed : Greenhouse Little Garden CHEZ MOI
So we are here today at a secret jungle location near the Mary Booth Reserve at Kirribilli - but actually beneath the reserve right on the harbour where the giant Port Jackson figtrees cling to the rocks, along with photographers who also have to cling to rocks.
It's a new frontier. Viewing Sydney through the jungle-like branches and leaves of the giant figtrees here at Kirribilli.
And so here is Donald Fagen with 'New Frontier' from his album 'The Nightfly':
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtovFI8etOg
My Canon EOS 5D MK IV with the Canon EF 16-35mm f/4L IS USM lens.
Processed in Adobe Lightroom and PhotoPad Pro by NCH software.
The view from my secret forest of Port Jackson Fig Trees.
Just below the Mary Booth Lookout Reserve, Kirribilli.
Descend to the rocks via the convict-built sandstone steps.
Use the torch function on your mobile phone after dark.
So when you get right down on the harbour you see and hear all the cruise boats - at close range.
On this occasion the 'Jackson' cruise boat was playing 'Love Is A Stranger' by the Eurythmics - and 80s classic hit. Check out Annie Lennox in her car, lol:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6f593X6rv8
My Canon EOS 5D Mk IV with the Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM lens.
Processed in Adobe Lightroom and PhotoPad Pro by NCH software.
I like backlight a lot to show the beauty of the tessellations, which I fold. This however is one of my first backlit nature photo of a fig tree, using the sunset light in the early evening. You can see the structure of the leaves very clearly now.
Photography is magic!!!! ;-)
It's a girl with a lamp at Kirribilli.
Her name is Zoe.
I discovered her at sunset on my 'secret' rock platform, and she was carrying a lamp. She held the lamp up to the harbour as the dusk descended in some kind of esoteric, symbolic, gesture.
And for Zoe, here is 'The Cult' with 'She Sells Sanctuary'.
A bit like Zoe, lol. And she likes this song.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCOSPtyZAPA
This rock platform is one of my special locations to take photographs of Sydney. It is quite secluded from the normal places such as Milsons Point and the Jeffrey Street Wharf.
It is accessible via a forest of Port Jackson figtrees and you don't actually see the rock platform until you get right down to the harbour level.
So it was really surprising to find this hippy chick there with her lamp. But she was actually rather nice. She wanted to "commune" with the harbour.
So I suggested that we "commune" with coffee at nearby Kirribilli. And so we did, after the sunset faded and it was lamp's out, lol.
My Canon EOS 5D Mk IV with the Canon EF 16-35mm f/4L lens.
Processed in Adobe Lightroom and PhotoPad Pro by NCH software.
A drive up the windy mountain roads west of Brisbane took us to Mount Glorious (619mtr) in the D'Aguilar Range, part of the Great divide. A stop to have our sandwiches before a hike through the rain forest. While it was a humid 34c when we left Brisbane, under the canopy of the forest in the mountains it was a comfortable 22c. Many birds, butterflies and spiders and a little Pademelon were spied along the way. We were even fed on by leeches.
It is certainly a good way to get away from it all and get back to nature. The giant trees were amazing. These are the roots of a giant Small leaved fig tree. (Ficus Obliqua). These trees can grow to over 60mtr tall (200ft). But they can also be grown as Bonzai.
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