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Brooklyn Boro Park 1977 Minolta XE-7 20mm Vivitar Close up of our clothesline pulley. Now everyone uses a dryer. Our clothes cracked off in the 70s winters. Grandpa's Fig trees in full bloom here. White grape vine are all along the back fence. Unseen: Tomatoes to the right 30 plants.
I never knew that the dead-looking tree in the house we recently moved in was a fig tree. Imagine how excited I was to find out it could give fruits. it even never blossomed!
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Family : Moraceae
Central Queensland to Southern NSW in all rainforest types. Often planted as a shade tree in parks and large gardens.
The sign on the tree titles this tree as "The Children's Tree" - dedicated 11th April 1983 at the request of 'Children of the Green Earth' by Mt Doug Swan (Director General of Education) who proclaimed the pupils of Plunkett Street School as custodians of the tree.
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From the early 1900's to the 1970's the Manning River, on the NSW Mid North Coast echoed with the sound of stainless steel milk cans clanging loudly as they were loaded onto more than a dozen Cream Boats (or Milk Boats) that plied the tranquil waters of the scenic Manning River.
The Cream Boats were a lifeline to river communities, not only picking up dairy milk from individual farm wharves along the river but also delivering supplies as well as providing a means of transport for children going to school in Taree.
The decaying wharf seen in these images serviced the old Peeress Butter Factory.
A railway spur line passes from the main North Coast Rail Line passing by the old Peters factory and continuing along the river to the Peters Milk Wharf then on to the old Peeress Butter Factory further east on Pitt St Chatham. The line is still evident today.
With advanced cold refrigeration tankers coming into the industry from the late 1960s both milk factories eventually closed as the milk industry contracted to larger producers serviced by a large fleet of refrigerated tankers.
Sadly both these facilities could have offered something as tourism infrastructure had they been even minimally maintained. Today they stand rapidly deteriorating with demolition almost inevitable.
The wharves represent extremely important historic links to the bustling history of the Manning River yet this is apparently all to be lost within the next 10 years as no preservation of the wharves appears to be planned under the 2010 'Fig Trees on Manning' development grand plan for this historic riverfront precinct.
The riverfront land here is in multiple ownership but the plan aims for a mix of residential and commercial as well as a marina with the 3 major land parcels integrating as they are developed. The historic Peeress Butter Factory will largely be demolished but certain buildings are marked for for adaptive re-use as a museum and for other purposes.
With the creamboat wharves gone and the Butter Factory reduced to a mere skeleton some of the last vestiges of the history of the Manning River will fade away forever.
Little MOC or vignette. No elaborate construction, but lots o' flowers!! ^^
You can find a fig tree, a fuchsia bush, some daisies and dandelions, what was supposed to be lavender, but let's say they're violets! Plus some edible and non-edible mushrooms! And then there's all the wildlife!! Kinda wanna be there right now… !
Carol and I standing under a fig tree while birding at La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica, February 2022.
Jimbour station was taken up by the Irish Bell family in 1844 but the original leaseholder was Richard Scougall who claimed Jimbour in 1841. He took up 300,000 acres and had a flock of 11,000 sheep by 1842 but when the leasehold was sold to Joshua Bell and his brothers they purchased around 5,000 acres. From 1844 Joshua Bell ran the property, which cost £3,200, with his brothers and he only took complete control of the estate in his own right in 1872. Consequently it was in 1874 when he started building his grand mansion on the property. In its early days Jimbour became a resting place for the explorer Ludwig Leichhardt when he was heading towards Darwin in 1864. Bell later became Sir Joshua Bell as he entered politics not long after QLD got its independence and separation from NSW in 1859. He was a government minister in various portfolios for many years. Bell was aristocratic in manner and built the grandest house on the Darling Downs. His riches came from his expert management of his sheep property and his business acumen. Sir Joshua Bell died in Brisbane in 1881 and the bank reclaimed Jimbour mansion from his estate just three years later! The sandstone for this grand French chateau style house was carted from the Bunya Mountains. 200 men were employed on building this house. The slate for the roof was imported from Wales. Work began on the house in 1874 finishing in 1876. It cost over £30,000. When the family moved in it had its own gas supply for lighting and piped water. But how did the Bell family loose Jimbour? Well in 1881 they kept 100 freehold acres around the house and formed a pastoral company to control the rest of the land. The pastoral company went bankrupt in the drought and depression of the early 1880s and the bank re-possessed the land in the early 1890s. The bank allowed Lady Bell and relatives to remain in the house until she moved to Brisbane in 1912. The QLD National Bank held Jimbour estate for some years and sold it for a £12,000 or thereabouts in the early 1920s to Charles Russell. By then much of the large estate had been broken down into farming lots and Charles Russell purchased less than 6,000 acres. The house was in ruins and the garden overgrown. Russell set about reroofing, replacing ceilings, and general restoration to make the house habitable again. The house formally re-opened in 1925. Charles Russell died in 1977 and the propertyis now owned by a company. It is used for weddings, functions and opera in the outback. The chapel at Jimbour was completed in 1868. The water tower was erected in the 1870s.
Globus Family of Brands in conjunction with Singapore Airlines recently took 20 top Australian and New Zealand travel agents on their annual SuperTour to Scandinavia.
The group toured Carlsberg Brewery in Copenhagen, had a picnic on the top of snow covered mountains in Norway, cruised the Sognefjord, took a scenic train ride on the Flam Railway, and had Barrack Obama’s five course meal recreated from last year’s Nobel Peace Prize Gala Dinner at the Grand Hotel in Oslo.
Pictured above after the meal of cured reindeer fillet and thyme marinated elk, back row, from left are: Adrian Martin, Singapore Airlines; Craig Pearce, Figtree Travel; Carly Delalande, Escape Travel Epping; Nicole Goschin, Flight Centre Miranda; Janine Mallon, House of Travel Dunedin; Steve Labroski, iTravel; Melissa Mintern, FC Shepparton; Steve Marshall, HoT Barrington; Jeff Hinds, Best Travel Deals; Julia Mackay, FC Northlands; Cindy Gibbons, National Seniors Travel; Pip Livesey, Andrew Jones Travel; Marie Thompson, HoT Papamoa; Annie Sale, Cherrywood Mondo Travel; Lisa Noye, Toowoomba Grand Central FC; Julie-Anne Winzer, Greensborough FC; Irene Krukowski, Jetset Melton; Tracey Herbert, Britain and Europe Travel Bureau; Letitia Eyes, NZ sales & marketing manager and Robert Halfpenny, sales manager Australasia.
Front: Marissa Holliday, Best Flights; Jill Johansen, HWT Mackay;
Sandy Power, Our Vacation Centre; Melinda Robilliard, regional sales manager Vic; and Melanie Hogg, Globus SuperTour/Senior Groups coordinator.
Floor: Oivind Fure, Globus Tour director and Peter, coach driver.
A closer look at the Moreton Bay fig tree, ficus macrophylla. (See previous photo). The largest specimen in the United States.
finished this quilt yesterday. Made with fabric designed by Fig Tree. It measures 78x78 and is in colors I don't usually use. It reminds me of orange sherbet or a creamsicle bar.
camera: zero image pinhole
film: kodak ektar 100
exposure: 13 minutes
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Family : Moraceae
The aerial roots of this massive buttressed Lord Howe Island endemic tree drop down to the ground and eventually become support trunks in their own right .
Reportedly the most cold tolerant of the figs,it is a massive speading tree but unlike Ficus Virens (The Northern Banyan) it has no discernable central origin.
It will grow up to 20 metres in height and from those I saw,a single tree can cover an area of something like 2 hectares with massive post like roots hanging down to the ground supporting the weighty spreading branches.
Usually it can be found associated with Howea forsteriana (Kentia Palm) in the lowland forests but can grow up to 500m on the sides of Mt Lidgbird and Mt Gower.
There are some good examples on the golf course.
The local birds such as the Lord Howe Currawong relish the ripe purple fruits.
This fig is far too big for planting anywhere where it cannot be given room to eventually spread.
Little MOC or vignette. No elaborate construction, but lots o' flowers!! ^^
You can find a fig tree, a fuchsia bush, some daisies and dandelions, what was supposed to be lavender, but let's say they're violets! Plus some edible and non-edible mushrooms! And then there's all the wildlife!! Kinda wanna be there right now… !
The walk around Lake Eacham is around 3.5km and takes about 45 minutes. Plenty of these amazing figtrees with their extensive root systems along the way.
Double-eyed Fig Parrot. Cyclopsitta diophthalma Macleayana.
I can not begin to describe how excited this encounter was for me. There where nine birds in total in the one fig tree Pairs and young.
Sixty five photos later.
The Double-eyed Fig Parrot is Australia's smallest parrot.
Their eggs are laid in holes in dead, sometimes perilously shaky, trees.
Seen ideally three or four times each year around the weeping native fig trees which set fruit and attract these parrots.
Both sexes have a red forehead, but the males also have a red cheek patch, as opposed to the females' which is usually yellow.