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This is a remake of a photo taken of me for the hometown newspaper in 1975 when I was 16, in which I was holding a blooming plant of Laeliocattleya George Baldwin. (see the original here: c2.staticflickr.com/6/5660/23410096245_d96be441b5_b.jpg )
Forty years later I was able to obtain a copy of this same Cattleya hybrid (thank you Orchids by Hausermann!) and here it is, blooming for me once again.
Funny how things sometimes cycle back to us, given the passage of time.
Muston Park North Willoughby, suburban Sydney. A planted tree, probably from the 1880s. 25 metres tall.
This is an abundant species in the sub tropical rainforests of the north of the state of New South Wales. Usually found in lower altitudes on soils of an moderate to good fertility.
The distribution is between Bellingen in New South Wales and Gladstone in Queensland. There are other varieties of this species further north in the tropics.
Though there is a single tree growing near Paterson, further south in the Hunter region. Possibly indigenous (not planted by white man). It's situated between the Paterson road and Tocal road, on the way from Maitland to Paterson.
The botanist L.A.S Johnson noted on this individual tree: "Mr D'Ombrain writes (12 Sept 1933): The T. trifoliolata is the only one that I can find in the area...and cannot find any history of [it]...it may have grown there and just been left standing for its splendid shade".
The species first entered scientific literature in 1858, published by Ferdinand von Mueller. Eventually his "Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae" had some two thousand plants. The first specimens of the White Booyong were collected from the Pine River and Brisbane River. The baron wrote the entire document in latin.
In the rainforest, White Booyong may be noticed by the relatively pale, cylindrical trunk and heavily buttressed base. Another feature is the pale underside to the leaves. A large tree, growing up to 45 metres in height. With a thick base, sometimes exceeding two metres across.
In the 19th and early 20th century, uncountable thousands of these trees were killed and burnt for land clearance. The timber is of use. The botanist A.G. Floyd writes; the straight grain is similar to the Silky Oak (Grevillea robusta). The timber is dark brown to red. Good for indoor work, lining, flooring, turnery and cabinet work.
At Davis Scrub, near Alstonville there's many White Booyongs growing in a small area. One has a full healthy canopy of leaves. But some dark patterns of termite trails. Presumably the tree is OK, and the insects are after dead wood only. Here's a picture.
Leaves form in threes, hence the specific epithet trifoliolatum. The underside is a silvery or metallic coppery colour. The three leaves in situ have got me confused. Thinking the plant was in the Rutaceae. But this is no citrus. Booyong is now in the mallow family (Malvaceae).
In the summer months, thousands of seeds spin down to the earth. The fruit is in the form of a samara, a round seed with a long wing. They are attractive, the colour of gold and appealing to children. Kids like to throw them into the air, and watch them spin to the ground. The seeds germinate easily.
One of the bird species that eat the seeds is the Brush Turkey. In this suburban park, there is a population of these birds and they would certainly eat them.
Here's a picture of my left hand and seeds from this same tree at Willoughby. Eventually, seedlings grew and were given to "Black Diamond" who had them planted out.
Muston Park is named after William Thomas Muston, the original owner of the land and Mayor of Willoughby in 1890. His home ‘Penshurst’ stood in the middle of the land which was subdivided and sold in 1921.
A long way from suburban Willoughby is a village, named after this tree. Booyong is situated in an area of the former Big Scrub. Not too far from Byron Bay and Lismore, up in the sub-tropics.
Opposite the school at Booyong is an impressive sub tropical rainforest remnant, named Booyong Flora Reserve.
The White Booyong is common here, and there's a small but beautiful double trunked tree of this type beside the walking track.
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Family : Moraceae
A woody climber or a straggling shrub with large spikes in Subtropical,Warm Temperate, Dry and littoral Rainforest north from Ulladulla.
Seen here on the eastern side of Sea Acres carpark at Port Macquarie.
Thanks to PlantNerd for correcting the Callerya ID initially applied to this image.
Muston Park North Willoughby, suburban Sydney. A planted tree, probably from the 1880s. 25 metres tall.. Planted tree, perhaps from the 1880s. 25 metres tall.
This is an abundant species in the sub tropical rainforests of the north of the state of New South Wales. Usually found in lower altitudes on soils of an moderate to good fertility.
The distribution is between Bellingen in New South Wales and Gladstone in Queensland. There are other varieties of this species further north in the tropics.
Though there is a single tree growing near Paterson, further south in the Hunter region. Possibly indigenous (not planted by white man). It's situated between the Paterson road and Tocal road, on the way from Maitland to Paterson.
The botanist L.A.S Johnson noted on this individual tree: "Mr D'Ombrain writes (12 Sept 1933): The T. trifoliolata is the only one that I can find in the area...and cannot find any history of [it]...it may have grown there and just been left standing for its splendid shade".
The species first entered scientific literature in 1858, published by Ferdinand von Mueller. Eventually his "Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae" had some two thousand plants. The first specimens of the White Booyong were collected from the Pine River and Brisbane River. The baron wrote the entire document in latin.
In the rainforest, White Booyong may be noticed by the relatively pale, cylindrical trunk and heavily buttressed base. Another feature is the pale underside to the leaves. A large tree, growing up to 45 metres in height. With a thick base, sometimes exceeding two metres across.
In the 19th and early 20th century, uncountable thousands of these trees were killed and burnt for land clearance. The timber is of use. The botanist A.G. Floyd writes; the straight grain is similar to the Silky Oak (Grevillea robusta). The timber is dark brown to red. Good for indoor work, lining, flooring, turnery and cabinet work.
At Davis Scrub, near Alstonville there's many White Booyongs growing in a small area. One has a full healthy canopy of leaves. But some dark patterns of termite trails. Presumably the tree is OK, and the insects are after dead wood only. Here's a picture.
Leaves form in threes, hence the specific epithet trifoliolatum. The underside is a silvery or metallic coppery colour. The three leaves in situ have got me confused. Thinking the plant was in the Rutaceae. But this is no citrus. Booyong is now in the mallow family (Malvaceae).
In the summer months, thousands of seeds spin down to the earth. The fruit is in the form of a samara, a round seed with a long wing. They are attractive, the colour of gold and appealing to children. Kids like to throw them into the air, and watch them spin to the ground. The seeds germinate easily.
One of the bird species that eat the seeds is the Brush Turkey. In this suburban park, there is a population of these birds and they would certainly eat them.
Here's a picture of my left hand and seeds from this same tree at Willoughby. Eventually, seedlings grew and were given to "Black Diamond" who had them planted out.
Muston Park is named after William Thomas Muston, the original owner of the land and Mayor of Willoughby in 1890. His home ‘Penshurst’ stood in the middle of the land which was subdivided and sold in 1921.
A long way from suburban Willoughby is a village, named after this tree. Booyong is situated in an area of the former Big Scrub. Not too far from Byron Bay and Lismore, up in the sub-tropics.
Opposite the school at Booyong is an impressive sub tropical rainforest remnant, named Booyong Flora Reserve.
The White Booyong is common here, and there's a small but beautiful double trunked tree of this type beside the walking track.
Muston Park North Willoughby, suburban Sydney. A planted tree, probably from the 1880s. 25 metres tall.. Seeds from a planted tree, perhaps from the 1880s. 24 metres tall.
This is an abundant species in the sub tropical rainforests of the north of the state of New South Wales. Usually found in lower altitudes on soils of an moderate to good fertility.
The distribution is between Bellingen in New South Wales and Gladstone in Queensland. There are other varieties of this species further north in the tropics.
Though there is a single tree growing near Paterson, further south in the Hunter region. Possibly indigenous (not planted by white man). It's situated between the Paterson road and Tocal road, on the way from Maitland to Paterson.
The botanist L.A.S Johnson noted on this individual tree: "Mr D'Ombrain writes (12 Sept 1933): The T. trifoliolata is the only one that I can find in the area...and cannot find any history of [it]...it may have grown there and just been left standing for its splendid shade".
The species first entered scientific literature in 1858, published by Ferdinand von Mueller. Eventually his "Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae" had some two thousand plants. The first specimens of the White Booyong were collected from the Pine River and Brisbane River. The baron wrote the entire document in latin.
In the rainforest, White Booyong may be noticed by the relatively pale, cylindrical trunk and heavily buttressed base. Another feature is the pale underside to the leaves. A large tree, growing up to 45 metres in height. With a thick base, sometimes exceeding two metres across.
In the 19th and early 20th century, uncountable thousands of these trees were killed and burnt for land clearance. The timber is of use. The botanist A.G. Floyd writes; the straight grain is similar to the Silky Oak (Grevillea robusta). The timber is dark brown to red. Good for indoor work, lining, flooring, turnery and cabinet work.
At Davis Scrub, near Alstonville there's many White Booyongs growing in a small area. One has a full healthy canopy of leaves. But some dark patterns of termite trails. Presumably the tree is OK, and the insects are after dead wood only. Here's a picture.
Leaves form in threes, hence the specific epithet trifoliolatum. The underside is a silvery or metallic coppery colour. The three leaves in situ have got me confused. Thinking the plant was in the Rutaceae. But this is no citrus. Booyong is now in the mallow family (Malvaceae).
In the summer months, thousands of seeds spin down to the earth. The fruit is in the form of a samara, a round seed with a long wing. They are attractive, the colour of gold and appealing to children. Kids like to throw them into the air, and watch them spin to the ground. The seeds germinate easily.
One of the bird species that eat the seeds is the Brush Turkey. In this suburban park, there is a population of these birds and they would certainly eat them.
Here's a picture of my left hand and seeds from this same tree at Willoughby. Eventually, seedlings grew and were given to "Black Diamond" who had them planted out.
Muston Park is named after William Thomas Muston, the original owner of the land and Mayor of Willoughby in 1890. His home ‘Penshurst’ stood in the middle of the land which was subdivided and sold in 1921.
A long way from suburban Willoughby is a village, named after this tree. Booyong is situated in an area of the former Big Scrub. Not too far from Byron Bay and Lismore, up in the sub-tropics.
Opposite the school at Booyong is an impressive sub tropical rainforest remnant, named Booyong Flora Reserve.
The White Booyong is common here, and there's a small but beautiful double trunked tree of this type beside the walking track.
This is an abundant species in the sub tropical rainforests of the north of the state of New South Wales. Usually found in lower altitudes on soils of an moderate to good fertility.
The distribution is between Bellingen in New South Wales and Gladstone in Queensland. There are other varieties of this species further north in the tropics.
Though there is a single tree growing near Paterson, further south in the Hunter region. Possibly indigenous (not planted by white man). It's situated between the Paterson road and Tocal road, on the way from Maitland to Paterson.
The botanist L.A.S Johnson noted on this individual tree: "Mr D'Ombrain writes (12 Sept 1933): The T. trifoliolata is the only one that I can find in the area...and cannot find any history of [it]...it may have grown there and just been left standing for its splendid shade".
The species first entered scientific literature in 1858, published by Ferdinand von Mueller. Eventually his "Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae" had some two thousand plants. The first specimens of the White Booyong were collected from the Pine River and Brisbane River. The baron wrote the entire document in latin.
In the rainforest, White Booyong may be noticed by the relatively pale, cylindrical trunk and heavily buttressed base. Another feature is the pale underside to the leaves. A large tree, growing up to 45 metres in height. With a thick base, sometimes exceeding two metres across.
In the 19th and early 20th century, uncountable thousands of these trees were killed and burnt for land clearance. The timber is of use. The botanist A.G. Floyd writes; the straight grain is similar to the Silky Oak (Grevillea robusta). The timber is dark brown to red. Good for indoor work, lining, flooring, turnery and cabinet work.
At Davis Scrub, near Alstonville there's many White Booyongs growing in a small area. One has a full healthy canopy of leaves. But some dark patterns of termite trails. Presumably the tree is OK, and the insects are after dead wood only. Here's a picture.
Leaves form in threes, hence the specific epithet trifoliolatum. The underside is a silvery or metallic coppery colour. The three leaves in situ have got me confused. Thinking the plant was in the Rutaceae. But this is no citrus. Booyong is now in the mallow family (Malvaceae).
In the summer months, thousands of seeds spin down to the earth. The fruit is in the form of a samara, a round seed with a long wing. They are attractive, the colour of gold and appealing to children. Kids like to throw them into the air, and watch them spin to the ground. The seeds germinate easily.
One of the bird species that eat the seeds is the Brush Turkey.
Here's a picture of my left hand and seeds from this same tree at Willoughby. Eventually, seedlings grew and were given to "Black Diamond" who had them planted out.
North of Woolgoolga is a village, named after this tree. Booyong is situated in an area of the former Big Scrub. Not too far from Byron Bay and Lismore, up in the sub-tropics.
Opposite the school at Booyong is an impressive sub tropical rainforest remnant, named Booyong Flora Reserve.
The White Booyong is common here, and there's a small but beautiful double trunked tree of this type beside the walking track.
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This week in images
Been pretty busy this week aside from work. I've got so many image threads going for the moment I'll only be adding summaries. The rest of the shots will go up, but slowly. I've got more pressing things to do and I've still got images outstanding working @ Dads, Mooses and the Wattle Festival.
Went to the Collingwood / St.Kilda match on Saturday, 2009SEP05. It was a classic match with a team that last on a Grand final in 1966. I'm doing better over the last couple of years going breaking my average of about 1 game per decade. St.Kilda ran all over Collingwood in the end playing a game similar to Basketball passing the ball around and running the Pies all over the ground.
Mt.Dandy for lunch
On Tuesday, 2009SEP08 shot up to Mt. Dandenong for lunch with Old man and sister. It was overcast down the hill, up the hill it rained and blew a gail. Lucky I came prepared - instead of t-shirts and shorts I packed some thermals. Had lunch at a local Pub beside the fire and then went up to the Rhododendron gardens to chat to the ARS members. The fire has killed off all but a handful of Dads plants which believe it or not numbered in the thousands. Dads specialty is slow growing, large leaved Rhododendrons which originate in high altitudes China. A young mans plant. So he's talking to see if he can get some plants to re-plant the property. We did a tour in the bus and he proceeded to talk the entire tour on the various plants he'd planted there to the astonishment of the new driver. It was pouring rain, windy and by the time we left pretty cold.
On Friday, 2009SEP11, Walked past a panel shop I keep an eye on. A few old cars and a few new looking ones. A Ford Customline was out the front. A Fairlane and a couple of unidentified cars lined up.
Saturday was the Diamond Creek Town fair. I've missed a few over the last couple of years because the fair used to be in March not September. Parked the car up on a hill and walked down to the ovals across the bridge. At first I got the impression the Fair had changed from what I last remember it. But as I moved from the Coventry oval to the old Soccer oval I found the CFA demonstrations, the running events, the Axemen, some car displays and a myriad of local stands. Pretty much as I remember. It got pretty warm in the afternoon. Walked back up the hill along Bage St. to Galatea St, where I used to live. Went home. A perfect day.
Earlier in the year we (myself, brother, sister and a good mate) organised power and water for Dad in the early days of Black Saturday. "K" got the call for some of the emergency water supply containers to be re-called. We were lucky enough to be able to use these ruggedised containers free of cost. They made the difference between having water and not having water. You can't trust the local authorities to be able to supply these basic services. So I organised a ute and drove up the same path through Eltham, Diamond Creek, Yarrambat, Doreen, Yan Yean, Whittlesea to Kinglake West. Today just happened to have a large bike event on the way so doing 60 in the diesel was ok. Got up to KLW, had some lunch. Hitched up some jury-rigged piping to remove the water from the Pallecon. It took 5minutes to break the box down, about 5 minutes to move the single axle trailer by hand (unlike a double axle, too hard to reverse) tie the pallets down. Did a quick tour of the garden again checking out some orchards that are springing up. Went home. Got a few shots of some paddocks in Yan Yean. Haven't seen them so green for a long time.
Summer is coming and so is the heat.
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Family : Proteaceae
A spectacular medium sized tree from higher altitude (700 to 1250m) warm, cool temperate, and occasionally subtropical rainforest in the Missabotti, Dorrigo and Mt Hyland areas as well as in theTweed and McPherson Range areas of Northern NSW and SE Queensland.
A row of around 11-12 well established cultivated flowering Dorrigo Waratah trees line the southern side of the railway tracks here at the Robertson Railway Station in the NSW Southern Highlands, 600km south of Dorrigo.
Alloxylon pinnatum is definitely a tree well worth considering in the cooler tablelands areas of NSW. To see these trees flowering at their best plan your visit for just after Xmas.
plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&am...
www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/welcome_to_bgt/mount_tomah_botanic_...
The Robertson Heritage Railway Station Waratah Arboretum is largely the work of David Tranter and is well worth a visit in spring with a large selection of various Australian native waratahs (Telopea sp.) flowering on the site.
Apart from Alloxylon pinnatum, the rainforest species pictured above, David Tranter has cultivated many forms and varieties of the Telopea genus here in Robertson.
The 4 main open forest species found in the Arboretum are - Telopea speciosissima, Telopea aspera, Telopea oreades and Telopea mongaensis. There are 5 species in the Telopea genus but I am uncertain if the arboretum contains the 5th species, theTasmanian Waratah - Telopea truncata.
All these are also in the Proteaceae family and resemble the rainforest species Alloxylon pinnatum and its North Queensland cousins - Alloxylon flammeum and Alloxylon wickhamii.
A museum also occupies the site which is located on the Robertson Common in Yarranga Street, Robertson.
For some info on Waratahs (Telopea sp.) see Dennis Wilson's blog - The Nature of Robertson.
IDENTIFYING AUSTRALIAN RAINFOREST PLANTS,TREES & FUNGI - Flick Group --> DATABASE INDEX
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Family : Proteaceae
A spectacular medium sized tree from higher altitude (700 to 1250m) warm, cool temperate, and occasionally subtropical rainforest in the Missabotti, Dorrigo and Mt Hyland areas as well as in theTweed and McPherson Range areas of Northern NSW and SE Queensland.
A row of around 11-12 well established cultivated flowering Dorrigo Waratah trees line the southern side of the railway tracks here at the Robertson Railway Station in the NSW Southern Highlands, 600km south of Dorrigo.
Alloxylon pinnatum is definitely a tree well worth considering in the cooler tablelands areas of NSW. To see these trees flowering at their best plan your visit for just after Xmas.
plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&am...
www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/welcome_to_bgt/mount_tomah_botanic_...
The Robertson Heritage Railway Station Waratah Arboretum is largely the work of David Tranter and is well worth a visit in spring with a large selection of various Australian native waratahs (Telopea sp.) flowering on the site.
Apart from Alloxylon pinnatum, the rainforest species pictured above, David Tranter has cultivated many forms and varieties of the Telopea genus here in Robertson.
The 4 main open forest species found in the Arboretum are - Telopea speciosissima, Telopea aspera, Telopea oreades and Telopea mongaensis. There are 5 species in the Telopea genus but I am uncertain if the arboretum contains the 5th species, theTasmanian Waratah - Telopea truncata.
All these are also in the Proteaceae family and resemble the rainforest species Alloxylon pinnatum and its North Queensland cousins - Alloxylon flammeum and Alloxylon wickhamii.
A museum also occupies the site which is located on the Robertson Common in Yarranga Street, Robertson.
For some info on Waratahs (Telopea sp.) see Dennis Wilson's blog - The Nature of Robertson.
IDENTIFYING AUSTRALIAN RAINFOREST PLANTS,TREES & FUNGI - Flick Group --> DATABASE INDEX
FIELD GUIDE : FLOWERING TREES of the WORLD ----> Scientific Names DATABASE
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This week in images
Been pretty busy this week aside from work. I've got so many image threads going for the moment I'll only be adding summaries. The rest of the shots will go up, but slowly. I've got more pressing things to do and I've still got images outstanding working @ Dads, Mooses and the Wattle Festival.
Went to the Collingwood / St.Kilda match on Saturday, 2009SEP05. It was a classic match with a team that last on a Grand final in 1966. I'm doing better over the last couple of years going breaking my average of about 1 game per decade. St.Kilda ran all over Collingwood in the end playing a game similar to Basketball passing the ball around and running the Pies all over the ground.
Mt.Dandy for lunch
On Tuesday, 2009SEP08 shot up to Mt. Dandenong for lunch with Old man and sister. It was overcast down the hill, up the hill it rained and blew a gail. Lucky I came prepared - instead of t-shirts and shorts I packed some thermals. Had lunch at a local Pub beside the fire and then went up to the Rhododendron gardens to chat to the ARS members. The fire has killed off all but a handful of Dads plants which believe it or not numbered in the thousands. Dads specialty is slow growing, large leaved Rhododendrons which originate in high altitudes China. A young mans plant. So he's talking to see if he can get some plants to re-plant the property. We did a tour in the bus and he proceeded to talk the entire tour on the various plants he'd planted there to the astonishment of the new driver. It was pouring rain, windy and by the time we left pretty cold.
On Friday, 2009SEP11, Walked past a panel shop I keep an eye on. A few old cars and a few new looking ones. A Ford Customline was out the front. A Fairlane and a couple of unidentified cars lined up.
Saturday was the Diamond Creek Town fair. I've missed a few over the last couple of years because the fair used to be in March not September. Parked the car up on a hill and walked down to the ovals across the bridge. At first I got the impression the Fair had changed from what I last remember it. But as I moved from the Coventry oval to the old Soccer oval I found the CFA demonstrations, the running events, the Axemen, some car displays and a myriad of local stands. Pretty much as I remember. It got pretty warm in the afternoon. Walked back up the hill along Bage St. to Galatea St, where I used to live. Went home. A perfect day.
Earlier in the year we (myself, brother, sister and a good mate) organised power and water for Dad in the early days of Black Saturday. "K" got the call for some of the emergency water supply containers to be re-called. We were lucky enough to be able to use these ruggedised containers free of cost. They made the difference between having water and not having water. You can't trust the local authorities to be able to supply these basic services. So I organised a ute and drove up the same path through Eltham, Diamond Creek, Yarrambat, Doreen, Yan Yean, Whittlesea to Kinglake West. Today just happened to have a large bike event on the way so doing 60 in the diesel was ok. Got up to KLW, had some lunch. Hitched up some jury-rigged piping to remove the water from the Pallecon. It took 5minutes to break the box down, about 5 minutes to move the single axle trailer by hand (unlike a double axle, too hard to reverse) tie the pallets down. Did a quick tour of the garden again checking out some orchards that are springing up. Went home. Got a few shots of some paddocks in Yan Yean. Haven't seen them so green for a long time.
Summer is coming and so is the heat.
next >>>
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This week in images
Been pretty busy this week aside from work. I've got so many image threads going for the moment I'll only be adding summaries. The rest of the shots will go up, but slowly. I've got more pressing things to do and I've still got images outstanding working @ Dads, Mooses and the Wattle Festival.
Went to the Collingwood / St.Kilda match on Saturday, 2009SEP05. It was a classic match with a team that last on a Grand final in 1966. I'm doing better over the last couple of years going breaking my average of about 1 game per decade. St.Kilda ran all over Collingwood in the end playing a game similar to Basketball passing the ball around and running the Pies all over the ground.
Mt.Dandy for lunch
On Tuesday, 2009SEP08 shot up to Mt. Dandenong for lunch with Old man and sister. It was overcast down the hill, up the hill it rained and blew a gail. Lucky I came prepared - instead of t-shirts and shorts I packed some thermals. Had lunch at a local Pub beside the fire and then went up to the Rhododendron gardens to chat to the ARS members. The fire has killed off all but a handful of Dads plants which believe it or not numbered in the thousands. Dads specialty is slow growing, large leaved Rhododendrons which originate in high altitudes China. A young mans plant. So he's talking to see if he can get some plants to re-plant the property. We did a tour in the bus and he proceeded to talk the entire tour on the various plants he'd planted there to the astonishment of the new driver. It was pouring rain, windy and by the time we left pretty cold.
On Friday, 2009SEP11, Walked past a panel shop I keep an eye on. A few old cars and a few new looking ones. A Ford Customline was out the front. A Fairlane and a couple of unidentified cars lined up.
Saturday was the Diamond Creek Town fair. I've missed a few over the last couple of years because the fair used to be in March not September. Parked the car up on a hill and walked down to the ovals across the bridge. At first I got the impression the Fair had changed from what I last remember it. But as I moved from the Coventry oval to the old Soccer oval I found the CFA demonstrations, the running events, the Axemen, some car displays and a myriad of local stands. Pretty much as I remember. It got pretty warm in the afternoon. Walked back up the hill along Bage St. to Galatea St, where I used to live. Went home. A perfect day.
Earlier in the year we (myself, brother, sister and a good mate) organised power and water for Dad in the early days of Black Saturday. "K" got the call for some of the emergency water supply containers to be re-called. We were lucky enough to be able to use these ruggedised containers free of cost. They made the difference between having water and not having water. You can't trust the local authorities to be able to supply these basic services. So I organised a ute and drove up the same path through Eltham, Diamond Creek, Yarrambat, Doreen, Yan Yean, Whittlesea to Kinglake West. Today just happened to have a large bike event on the way so doing 60 in the diesel was ok. Got up to KLW, had some lunch. Hitched up some jury-rigged piping to remove the water from the Pallecon. It took 5minutes to break the box down, about 5 minutes to move the single axle trailer by hand (unlike a double axle, too hard to reverse) tie the pallets down. Did a quick tour of the garden again checking out some orchards that are springing up. Went home. Got a few shots of some paddocks in Yan Yean. Haven't seen them so green for a long time.
Summer is coming and so is the heat.
next >>>
Check out Renewin' Strathewen
Check out Work @ Dads
This week in images
Been pretty busy this week aside from work. I've got so many image threads going for the moment I'll only be adding summaries. The rest of the shots will go up, but slowly. I've got more pressing things to do and I've still got images outstanding working @ Dads, Mooses and the Wattle Festival.
Went to the Collingwood / St.Kilda match on Saturday, 2009SEP05. It was a classic match with a team that last on a Grand final in 1966. I'm doing better over the last couple of years going breaking my average of about 1 game per decade. St.Kilda ran all over Collingwood in the end playing a game similar to Basketball passing the ball around and running the Pies all over the ground.
Mt.Dandy for lunch
On Tuesday, 2009SEP08 shot up to Mt. Dandenong for lunch with Old man and sister. It was overcast down the hill, up the hill it rained and blew a gail. Lucky I came prepared - instead of t-shirts and shorts I packed some thermals. Had lunch at a local Pub beside the fire and then went up to the Rhododendron gardens to chat to the ARS members. The fire has killed off all but a handful of Dads plants which believe it or not numbered in the thousands. Dads specialty is slow growing, large leaved Rhododendrons which originate in high altitudes China. A young mans plant. So he's talking to see if he can get some plants to re-plant the property. We did a tour in the bus and he proceeded to talk the entire tour on the various plants he'd planted there to the astonishment of the new driver. It was pouring rain, windy and by the time we left pretty cold.
On Friday, 2009SEP11, Walked past a panel shop I keep an eye on. A few old cars and a few new looking ones. A Ford Customline was out the front. A Fairlane and a couple of unidentified cars lined up.
Saturday was the Diamond Creek Town fair. I've missed a few over the last couple of years because the fair used to be in March not September. Parked the car up on a hill and walked down to the ovals across the bridge. At first I got the impression the Fair had changed from what I last remember it. But as I moved from the Coventry oval to the old Soccer oval I found the CFA demonstrations, the running events, the Axemen, some car displays and a myriad of local stands. Pretty much as I remember. It got pretty warm in the afternoon. Walked back up the hill along Bage St. to Galatea St, where I used to live. Went home. A perfect day.
Earlier in the year we (myself, brother, sister and a good mate) organised power and water for Dad in the early days of Black Saturday. "K" got the call for some of the emergency water supply containers to be re-called. We were lucky enough to be able to use these ruggedised containers free of cost. They made the difference between having water and not having water. You can't trust the local authorities to be able to supply these basic services. So I organised a ute and drove up the same path through Eltham, Diamond Creek, Yarrambat, Doreen, Yan Yean, Whittlesea to Kinglake West. Today just happened to have a large bike event on the way so doing 60 in the diesel was ok. Got up to KLW, had some lunch. Hitched up some jury-rigged piping to remove the water from the Pallecon. It took 5minutes to break the box down, about 5 minutes to move the single axle trailer by hand (unlike a double axle, too hard to reverse) tie the pallets down. Did a quick tour of the garden again checking out some orchards that are springing up. Went home. Got a few shots of some paddocks in Yan Yean. Haven't seen them so green for a long time.
Summer is coming and so is the heat.
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This week in images
Been pretty busy this week aside from work. I've got so many image threads going for the moment I'll only be adding summaries. The rest of the shots will go up, but slowly. I've got more pressing things to do and I've still got images outstanding working @ Dads, Mooses and the Wattle Festival.
Went to the Collingwood / St.Kilda match on Saturday, 2009SEP05. It was a classic match with a team that last on a Grand final in 1966. I'm doing better over the last couple of years going breaking my average of about 1 game per decade. St.Kilda ran all over Collingwood in the end playing a game similar to Basketball passing the ball around and running the Pies all over the ground.
Mt.Dandy for lunch
On Tuesday, 2009SEP08 shot up to Mt. Dandenong for lunch with Old man and sister. It was overcast down the hill, up the hill it rained and blew a gail. Lucky I came prepared - instead of t-shirts and shorts I packed some thermals. Had lunch at a local Pub beside the fire and then went up to the Rhododendron gardens to chat to the ARS members. The fire has killed off all but a handful of Dads plants which believe it or not numbered in the thousands. Dads specialty is slow growing, large leaved Rhododendrons which originate in high altitudes China. A young mans plant. So he's talking to see if he can get some plants to re-plant the property. We did a tour in the bus and he proceeded to talk the entire tour on the various plants he'd planted there to the astonishment of the new driver. It was pouring rain, windy and by the time we left pretty cold.
On Friday, 2009SEP11, Walked past a panel shop I keep an eye on. A few old cars and a few new looking ones. A Ford Customline was out the front. A Fairlane and a couple of unidentified cars lined up.
Saturday was the Diamond Creek Town fair. I've missed a few over the last couple of years because the fair used to be in March not September. Parked the car up on a hill and walked down to the ovals across the bridge. At first I got the impression the Fair had changed from what I last remember it. But as I moved from the Coventry oval to the old Soccer oval I found the CFA demonstrations, the running events, the Axemen, some car displays and a myriad of local stands. Pretty much as I remember. It got pretty warm in the afternoon. Walked back up the hill along Bage St. to Galatea St, where I used to live. Went home. A perfect day.
Earlier in the year we (myself, brother, sister and a good mate) organised power and water for Dad in the early days of Black Saturday. "K" got the call for some of the emergency water supply containers to be re-called. We were lucky enough to be able to use these ruggedised containers free of cost. They made the difference between having water and not having water. You can't trust the local authorities to be able to supply these basic services. So I organised a ute and drove up the same path through Eltham, Diamond Creek, Yarrambat, Doreen, Yan Yean, Whittlesea to Kinglake West. Today just happened to have a large bike event on the way so doing 60 in the diesel was ok. Got up to KLW, had some lunch. Hitched up some jury-rigged piping to remove the water from the Pallecon. It took 5minutes to break the box down, about 5 minutes to move the single axle trailer by hand (unlike a double axle, too hard to reverse) tie the pallets down. Did a quick tour of the garden again checking out some orchards that are springing up. Went home. Got a few shots of some paddocks in Yan Yean. Haven't seen them so green for a long time.
Summer is coming and so is the heat.
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This week in images
Been pretty busy this week aside from work. I've got so many image threads going for the moment I'll only be adding summaries. The rest of the shots will go up, but slowly. I've got more pressing things to do and I've still got images outstanding working @ Dads, Mooses and the Wattle Festival.
Went to the Collingwood / St.Kilda match on Saturday, 2009SEP05. It was a classic match with a team that last on a Grand final in 1966. I'm doing better over the last couple of years going breaking my average of about 1 game per decade. St.Kilda ran all over Collingwood in the end playing a game similar to Basketball passing the ball around and running the Pies all over the ground.
Mt.Dandy for lunch
On Tuesday, 2009SEP08 shot up to Mt. Dandenong for lunch with Old man and sister. It was overcast down the hill, up the hill it rained and blew a gail. Lucky I came prepared - instead of t-shirts and shorts I packed some thermals. Had lunch at a local Pub beside the fire and then went up to the Rhododendron gardens to chat to the ARS members. The fire has killed off all but a handful of Dads plants which believe it or not numbered in the thousands. Dads specialty is slow growing, large leaved Rhododendrons which originate in high altitudes China. A young mans plant. So he's talking to see if he can get some plants to re-plant the property. We did a tour in the bus and he proceeded to talk the entire tour on the various plants he'd planted there to the astonishment of the new driver. It was pouring rain, windy and by the time we left pretty cold.
On Friday, 2009SEP11, Walked past a panel shop I keep an eye on. A few old cars and a few new looking ones. A Ford Customline was out the front. A Fairlane and a couple of unidentified cars lined up.
Saturday was the Diamond Creek Town fair. I've missed a few over the last couple of years because the fair used to be in March not September. Parked the car up on a hill and walked down to the ovals across the bridge. At first I got the impression the Fair had changed from what I last remember it. But as I moved from the Coventry oval to the old Soccer oval I found the CFA demonstrations, the running events, the Axemen, some car displays and a myriad of local stands. Pretty much as I remember. It got pretty warm in the afternoon. Walked back up the hill along Bage St. to Galatea St, where I used to live. Went home. A perfect day.
Earlier in the year we (myself, brother, sister and a good mate) organised power and water for Dad in the early days of Black Saturday. "K" got the call for some of the emergency water supply containers to be re-called. We were lucky enough to be able to use these ruggedised containers free of cost. They made the difference between having water and not having water. You can't trust the local authorities to be able to supply these basic services. So I organised a ute and drove up the same path through Eltham, Diamond Creek, Yarrambat, Doreen, Yan Yean, Whittlesea to Kinglake West. Today just happened to have a large bike event on the way so doing 60 in the diesel was ok. Got up to KLW, had some lunch. Hitched up some jury-rigged piping to remove the water from the Pallecon. It took 5minutes to break the box down, about 5 minutes to move the single axle trailer by hand (unlike a double axle, too hard to reverse) tie the pallets down. Did a quick tour of the garden again checking out some orchards that are springing up. Went home. Got a few shots of some paddocks in Yan Yean. Haven't seen them so green for a long time.
Summer is coming and so is the heat.
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Check out Renewin' Strathewen
Check out Work @ Dads
This week in images
Been pretty busy this week aside from work. I've got so many image threads going for the moment I'll only be adding summaries. The rest of the shots will go up, but slowly. I've got more pressing things to do and I've still got images outstanding working @ Dads, Mooses and the Wattle Festival.
Went to the Collingwood / St.Kilda match on Saturday, 2009SEP05. It was a classic match with a team that last on a Grand final in 1966. I'm doing better over the last couple of years going breaking my average of about 1 game per decade. St.Kilda ran all over Collingwood in the end playing a game similar to Basketball passing the ball around and running the Pies all over the ground.
Mt.Dandy for lunch
On Tuesday, 2009SEP08 shot up to Mt. Dandenong for lunch with Old man and sister. It was overcast down the hill, up the hill it rained and blew a gail. Lucky I came prepared - instead of t-shirts and shorts I packed some thermals. Had lunch at a local Pub beside the fire and then went up to the Rhododendron gardens to chat to the ARS members. The fire has killed off all but a handful of Dads plants which believe it or not numbered in the thousands. Dads specialty is slow growing, large leaved Rhododendrons which originate in high altitudes China. A young mans plant. So he's talking to see if he can get some plants to re-plant the property. We did a tour in the bus and he proceeded to talk the entire tour on the various plants he'd planted there to the astonishment of the new driver. It was pouring rahttp://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/3915312070/in, windy and by the time we left pretty cold.
On Friday, 2009SEP11, Walked past a panel shop I keep an eye on. A few old cars and a few new looking ones. A Ford Customline was out the front. A Fairlane and a couple of unidentified cars lined up.
Saturday was the Diamond Creek Town fair. I've missed a few over the last couple of years because the fair used to be in March not September. Parked the car up on a hill and walked down to the ovals across the bridge. At first I got the impression the Fair had changed from what I last remember it. But as I moved from the Coventry oval to the old Soccer oval I found the CFA demonstrations, the running events, the Axemen, some car displays and a myriad of local stands. Pretty much as I remember. It got pretty warm in the afternoon. Walked back up the hill along Bage St. to Galatea St, where I used to live. Went home. A perfect day.
Earlier in the year we (myself, brother, sister and a good mate) organised power and water for Dad in the early days of Black Saturday. "K" got the call for some of the emergency water supply containers to be re-called. We were lucky enough to be able to use these ruggedised containers free of cost. They made the difference between having water and not having water. You can't trust the local authorities to be able to supply these basic services. So I organised a ute and drove up the same path through Eltham, Diamond Creek, Yarrambat, Doreen, Yan Yean, Whittlesea to Kinglake West. Today just happened to have a large bike event on the way so doing 60 in the diesel was ok. Got up to KLW, had some lunch. Hitched up some jury-rigged piping to remove the water from the Pallecon. It took 5minutes to break the box down, about 5 minutes to move the single axle trailer by hand (unlike a double axle, too hard to reverse) tie the pallets down. Did a quick tour of the garden again checking out some orchards that are springing up. Went home. Got a few shots of some paddocks in Yan Yean. Haven't seen them so green for a long time.
Summer is coming and so is the heat.
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Check out Renewin' Strathewen
Check out Work @ Dads
This week in images
Been pretty busy this week aside from work. I've got so many image threads going for the moment I'll only be adding summaries. The rest of the shots will go up, but slowly. I've got more pressing things to do and I've still got images outstanding working @ Dads, Mooses and the Wattle Festival.
Went to the Collingwood / St.Kilda match on Saturday, 2009SEP05. It was a classic match with a team that last on a Grand final in 1966. I'm doing better over the last couple of years going breaking my average of about 1 game per decade. St.Kilda ran all over Collingwood in the end playing a game similar to Basketball passing the ball around and running the Pies all over the ground.
Mt.Dandy for lunch
On Tuesday, 2009SEP08 shot up to Mt. Dandenong for lunch with Old man and sister. It was overcast down the hill, up the hill it rained and blew a gail. Lucky I came prepared - instead of t-shirts and shorts I packed some thermals. Had lunch at a local Pub beside the fire and then went up to the Rhododendron gardens to chat to the ARS members. The fire has killed off all but a handful of Dads plants which believe it or not numbered in the thousands. Dads specialty is slow growing, large leaved Rhododendrons which originate in high altitudes China. A young mans plant. So he's talking to see if he can get some plants to re-plant the property. We did a tour in the bus and he proceeded to talk the entire tour on the various plants he'd planted there to the astonishment of the new driver. It was pouring rain, windy and by the time we left pretty cold.
On Friday, 2009SEP11, Walked past a panel shop I keep an eye on. A few old cars and a few new looking ones. A Ford Customline was out the front. A Fairlane and a couple of unidentified cars lined up.
Saturday was the Diamond Creek Town fair. I've missed a few over the last couple of years because the fair used to be in March not September. Parked the car up on a hill and walked down to the ovals across the bridge. At first I got the impression the Fair had changed from what I last remember it. But as I moved from the Coventry oval to the old Soccer oval I found the CFA demonstrations, the running events, the Axemen, some car displays and a myriad of local stands. Pretty much as I remember. It got pretty warm in the afternoon. Walked back up the hill along Bage St. to Galatea St, where I used to live. Went home. A perfect day.
Earlier in the year we (myself, brother, sister and a good mate) organised power and water for Dad in the early days of Black Saturday. "K" got the call for some of the emergency water supply containers to be re-called. We were lucky enough to be able to use these ruggedised containers free of cost. They made the difference between having water and not having water. You can't trust the local authorities to be able to supply these basic services. So I organised a ute and drove up the same path through Eltham, Diamond Creek, Yarrambat, Doreen, Yan Yean, Whittlesea to Kinglake West. Today just happened to have a large bike event on the way so doing 60 in the diesel was ok. Got up to KLW, had some lunch. Hitched up some jury-rigged piping to remove the water from the Pallecon. It took 5minutes to break the box down, about 5 minutes to move the single axle trailer by hand (unlike a double axle, too hard to reverse) tie the pallets down. Did a quick tour of the garden again checking out some orchards that are springing up. Went home. Got a few shots of some paddocks in Yan Yean. Haven't seen them so green for a long time.
Summer is coming and so is the heat.
next >>>
Check out Renewin' Strathewen
Check out Work @ Dads
This week in images
Been pretty busy this week aside from work. I've got so many image threads going for the moment I'll only be adding summaries. The rest of the shots will go up, but slowly. I've got more pressing things to do and I've still got images outstanding working @ Dads, Mooses and the Wattle Festival.
Went to the Collingwood / St.Kilda match on Saturday, 2009SEP05. It was a classic match with a team that last on a Grand final in 1966. I'm doing better over the last couple of years going breaking my average of about 1 game per decade. St.Kilda ran all over Collingwood in the end playing a game similar to Basketball passing the ball around and running the Pies all over the ground.
Mt.Dandy for lunch
On Tuesday, 2009SEP08 shot up to Mt. Dandenong for lunch with Old man and sister. It was overcast down the hill, up the hill it rained and blew a gail. Lucky I came prepared - instead of t-shirts and shorts I packed some thermals. Had lunch at a local Pub beside the fire and then went up to the Rhododendron gardens to chat to the ARS members. The fire has killed off all but a handful of Dads plants which believe it or not numbered in the thousands. Dads specialty is slow growing, large leaved Rhododendrons which originate in high altitudes China. A young mans plant. So he's talking to see if he can get some plants to re-plant the property. We did a tour in the bus and he proceeded to talk the entire tour on the various plants he'd planted there to the astonishment of the new driver. It was pouring rain, windy and by the time we left pretty cold.
On Friday, 2009SEP11, Walked past a panel shop I keep an eye on. A few old cars and a few new looking ones. A Ford Customline was out the front. A Fairlane and a couple of unidentified cars lined up.
Saturday was the Diamond Creek Town fair. I've missed a few over the last couple of years because the fair used to be in March not September. Parked the car up on a hill and walked down to the ovals across the bridge. At first I got the impression the Fair had changed from what I last remember it. But as I moved from the Coventry oval to the old Soccer oval I found the CFA demonstrations, the running events, the Axemen, some car displays and a myriad of local stands. Pretty much as I remember. It got pretty warm in the afternoon. Walked back up the hill along Bage St. to Galatea St, where I used to live. Went home. A perfect day.
Earlier in the year we (myself, brother, sister and a good mate) organised power and water for Dad in the early days of Black Saturday. "K" got the call for some of the emergency water supply containers to be re-called. We were lucky enough to be able to use these ruggedised containers free of cost. They made the difference between having water and not having water. You can't trust the local authorities to be able to supply these basic services. So I organised a ute and drove up the same path through Eltham, Diamond Creek, Yarrambat, Doreen, Yan Yean, Whittlesea to Kinglake West. Today just happened to have a large bike event on the way so doing 60 in the diesel was ok. Got up to KLW, had some lunch. Hitched up some jury-rigged piping to remove the water from the Pallecon. It took 5minutes to break the box down, about 5 minutes to move the single axle trailer by hand (unlike a double axle, too hard to reverse) tie the pallets down. Did a quick tour of the garden again checking out some orchards that are springing up. Went home. Got a few shots of some paddocks in Yan Yean. Haven't seen them so green for a long time.
Summer is coming and so is the heat.
next >>>
Check out Renewin' Strathewen
Check out Work @ Dads
This week in images
Been pretty busy this week aside from work. I've got so many image threads going for the moment I'll only be adding summaries. The rest of the shots will go up, but slowly. I've got more pressing things to do and I've still got images outstanding working @ Dads, Mooses and the Wattle Festival.
Went to the Collingwood / St.Kilda match on Saturday, 2009SEP05. It was a classic match with a team that last on a Grand final in 1966. I'm doing better over the last couple of years going breaking my average of about 1 game per decade. St.Kilda ran all over Collingwood in the end playing a game similar to Basketball passing the ball around and running the Pies all over the ground.
Mt.Dandy for lunch
On Tuesday, 2009SEP08 shot up to Mt. Dandenong for lunch with Old man and sister. It was overcast down the hill, up the hill it rained and blew a gail. Lucky I came prepared - instead of t-shirts and shorts I packed some thermals. Had lunch at a local Pub beside the fire and then went up to the Rhododendron gardens to chat to the ARS members. The fire has killed off all but a handful of Dads plants which believe it or not numbered in the thousands. Dads specialty is slow growing, large leaved Rhododendrons which originate in high altitudes China. A young mans plant. So he's talking to see if he can get some plants to re-plant the property. We did a tour in the bus and he proceeded to talk the entire tour on the various plants he'd planted there to the astonishment of the new driver. It was pouring rain, windy and by the time we left pretty cold.
On Friday, 2009SEP11, Walked past a panel shop I keep an eye on. A few old cars and a few new looking ones. A Ford Customline was out the front. A Fairlane and a couple of unidentified cars lined up.
Saturday was the Diamond Creek Town fair. I've missed a few over the last couple of years because the fair used to be in March not September. Parked the car up on a hill and walked down to the ovals across the bridge. At first I got the impression the Fair had changed from what I last remember it. But as I moved from the Coventry oval to the old Soccer oval I found the CFA demonstrations, the running events, the Axemen, some car displays and a myriad of local stands. Pretty much as I remember. It got pretty warm in the afternoon. Walked back up the hill along Bage St. to Galatea St, where I used to live. Went home. A perfect day.
Earlier in the year we (myself, brother, sister and a good mate) organised power and water for Dad in the early days of Black Saturday. "K" got the call for some of the emergency water supply containers to be re-called. We were lucky enough to be able to use these ruggedised containers free of cost. They made the difference between having water and not having water. You can't trust the local authorities to be able to supply these basic services. So I organised a ute and drove up the same path through Eltham, Diamond Creek, Yarrambat, Doreen, Yan Yean, Whittlesea to Kinglake West. Today just happened to have a large bike event on the way so doing 60 in the diesel was ok. Got up to KLW, had some lunch. Hitched up some jury-rigged piping to remove the water from the Pallecon. It took 5minutes to break the box down, about 5 minutes to move the single axle trailer by hand (unlike a double axle, too hard to reverse) tie the pallets down. Did a quick tour of the garden again checking out some orchards that are springing up. Went home. Got a few shots of some paddocks in Yan Yean. Haven't seen them so green for a long time.
Summer is coming and so is the heat.
next >>>
Check out Renewin' Strathewen
Check out Work @ Dads
This week in images
Been pretty busy this week aside from work. I've got so many image threads going for the moment I'll only be adding summaries. The rest of the shots will go up, but slowly. I've got more pressing things to do and I've still got images outstanding working @ Dads, Mooses and the Wattle Festival.
Went to the Collingwood / St.Kilda match on Saturday, 2009SEP05. It was a classic match with a team that last on a Grand final in 1966. I'm doing better over the last couple of years going breaking my average of about 1 game per decade. St.Kilda ran all over Collingwood in the end playing a game similar to Basketball passing the ball around and running the Pies all over the ground.
Mt.Dandy for lunch
On Tuesday, 2009SEP08 shot up to Mt. Dandenong for lunch with Old man and sister. It was overcast down the hill, up the hill it rained and blew a gail. Lucky I came prepared - instead of t-shirts and shorts I packed some thermals. Had lunch at a local Pub beside the fire and then went up to the Rhododendron gardens to chat to the ARS members. The fire has killed off all but a handful of Dads plants which believe it or not numbered in the thousands. Dads specialty is slow growing, large leaved Rhododendrons which originate in high altitudes China. A young mans plant. So he's talking to see if he can get some plants to re-plant the property. We did a tour in the bus and he proceeded to talk the entire tour on the various plants he'd planted there to the astonishment of the new driver. It was pouring rain, windy and by the time we left pretty cold.
On Friday, 2009SEP11, Walked past a panel shop I keep an eye on. A few old cars and a few new looking ones. A Ford Customline was out the front. A Fairlane and a couple of unidentified cars lined up.
Saturday was the Diamond Creek Town fair. I've missed a few over the last couple of years because the fair used to be in March not September. Parked the car up on a hill and walked down to the ovals across the bridge. At first I got the impression the Fair had changed from what I last remember it. But as I moved from the Coventry oval to the old Soccer oval I found the CFA demonstrations, the running events, the Axemen, some car displays and a myriad of local stands. Pretty much as I remember. It got pretty warm in the afternoon. Walked back up the hill along Bage St. to Galatea St, where I used to live. Went home. A perfect day.
Earlier in the year we (myself, brother, sister and a good mate) organised power and water for Dad in the early days of Black Saturday. "K" got the call for some of the emergency water supply containers to be re-called. We were lucky enough to be able to use these ruggedised containers free of cost. They made the difference between having water andhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/3915312064/ not having water. You can't trust the local authorities to be able to supply these basic services. So I organised a ute and drove up the same path through Eltham, Diamond Creek, Yarrambat, Doreen, Yan Yean, Whittlesea to Kinglake West. Today just happened to have a large bike event on the way so doing 60 in the diesel was ok. Got up to KLW, had some lunch. Hitched up some jury-rigged piping to remove the water from the Pallecon. It took 5minutes to break the box down, about 5 minutes to move the single axle trailer by hand (unlike a double axle, too hard to reverse) tie the pallets down. Did a quick tour of the garden again checking out some orchards that are springing up. Went home. Got a few shots of some paddocks in Yan Yean. Haven't seen them so green for a long time.
Summer is coming and so is the heat.
next >>>
Check out Renewin' Strathewen
Check out Work @ Dads
This week in images
Been pretty busy this week aside from work. I've got so many image threads going for the moment I'll only be adding summaries. The rest of the shots will go up, but slowly. I've got more pressing things to do and I've still got images outstanding working @ Dads, Mooses and the Wattle Festival.
Went to the Collingwood / St.Kilda match on Saturday, 2009SEP05. It was a classic match with a team that last on a Grand final in 1966. I'm doing better over the last couple of years going breaking my average of about 1 game per decade. St.Kilda ran all over Collingwood in the end playing a game similar to Basketball passing the ball around and running the Pies all over the ground.
Mt.Dandy for lunch
On Tuesday, 2009SEP08 shot up to Mt. Dandenong for lunch with Old man and sister. It was overcast down the hill, up the hill it rained and blew a gail. Lucky I came prepared - instead of t-shirts and shorts I packed some thermals. Had lunch at a local Pub beside the fire and then went up to the Rhododendron gardens to chat to the ARS members. The fire has killed off all but a handful of Dads plants which believe it or not numbered in the thousands. Dads specialty is slow growing, large leaved Rhododendrons which originate in high altitudes China. A young mans plant. So he's talking to see if he can get some plants to re-plant the property. We did a tour in the bus and he proceeded to talk the entire tour on the various plants he'd planted there to the astonishment of the new driver. It was pouring rain, windy and by the time we left pretty cold.
On Friday, 2009SEP11, Walked past a panel shop I keep an eye on. A few old cars and a few new looking ones. A Ford Customline was out the front. A Fairlane and a couple of unidentified cars lined up.
Saturday was the Diamond Creek Town fair. I've missed a few over the last couple of years because the fair used to be in March not September. Parked the car up on a hill and walked down to the ovals across the bridge. At first I got the impression the Fair had changed from what I last remember it. But as I moved from the Coventry oval to the old Soccer oval I found the CFA demonstrations, the running events, the Axemen, some car displays and a myriad of local stands. Pretty much as I remember. It got pretty warm in the afternoon. Walked back up the hill along Bage St. to Galatea St, where I used to live. Went home. A perfect day.
Earlier in the year we (myself, brother, sister and a good mate) organised power and water for Dad in the early days of Black Saturday. "K" got the call for some of the emergency water supply containers to be re-called. We were lucky enough to be able to use these ruggedised containers free of cost. They made the difference between having water and not having water. You can't trust the local authorities to be able to supply these basic services. So I organised a ute and drove up the same path through Eltham, Diamond Creek, Yarrambat, Doreen, Yan Yean, Whittlesea to Kinglake West. Today just happened to have a large bike event on the way so doing 60 in the diesel was ok. Got up to KLW, had some lunch. Hitched up some jury-rigged piping to remove the water from the Pallecon. It took 5minutes to break the box down, about 5 minutes to move the single axle trailer by hand (unlike a double axle, too hard to reverse) tie the pallets down. Did a quick tour of the garden again checking out some orchards that are springing up. Went home. Got a few shots of some paddocks in Yan Yean. Haven't seen them so green for a long time.
Summer is coming and so is the heat.
next >>>
Check out Renewin' Strathewen
Check out Work @ Dads
This week in images
Been pretty busy this week aside from work. I've got so many image threads going for the moment I'll only be adding summaries. The rest of the shots will go up, but slowly. I've got more pressing things to do and I've still got images outstanding working @ Dads, Mooses and the Wattle Festival.
Went to the Collingwood / St.Kilda match on Saturday, 2009SEP05. It was a classic match with a team that last on a Grand final in 1966. I'm doing better over the last couple of years going breaking my average of about 1 game per decade. St.Kilda ran all over Collingwood in the end playing a game similar to Basketball passing the ball around and running the Pies all over the ground.
Mt.Dandy for lunch
On Tuesday, 2009SEP08 shot up to Mt. Dandenong for lunch with Old man and sister. It was overcast down the hill, up the hill it rained and blew a gail. Lucky I came prepared - instead of t-shirts and shorts I packed some thermals. Had lunch at a local Pub beside the fire and then went up to the Rhododendron gardens to chat to the ARS members. The fire has killed off all but a handful of Dads plants which believe it or not numbered in the thousands. Dads specialty is slow growing, large leaved Rhododendrons which originate in high altitudes China. A young mans plant. So he's talking to see if he can get some plants to re-plant the property. We did a tour in the bus and he proceeded to talk the entire tour on the various plants he'd planted there to the astonishment of the new driver. It was pouring rain, windy and by the time we left pretty cold.
On Friday, 2009SEP11, Walked past a panel shop I keep an eye on. A few old cars and a few new looking ones. A Ford Customline was out the front. A Fairlane and a couple of unidentified cars lined up.
Saturday was the Diamond Creek Town fair. I've missed a few over the last couple of years because the fair used to be in March not September. Parked the car up on a hill and walked down to the ovals across the bridge. At first I got the impression the Fair had changed from what I last remember it. But as I moved from the Coventry oval to the old Soccer oval I found the CFA demonstrations, the running events, the Axemen, some car displays and a myriad of local stands. Pretty much as I remember. It got pretty warm in the afternoon. Walked back up the hill along Bage St. to Galatea St, where I used to live. Went home. A perfect day.
Earlier in the year we (myself, brother, sister and a good mate) organised power and water for Dad in the early days of Black Saturday. "K" got the call for some of the emergency water supply containers to be re-called. We were lucky enough to be able to use these ruggedised containers free of cost. They made the difference between having water and not having water. You can't trust the local authorities to be able to supply these basic services. So I organised a ute and drove up the same path through Eltham, Diamond Creek, Yarrambat, Doreen, Yan Yean, Whittlesea to Kinglake West. Today just happened to have a large bike event on the way so doing 60 in the diesel was ok. Got up to KLW, had some lunch. Hitched up some jury-rigged piping to remove the water from the Pallecon. It took 5minutes to break the box down, about 5 minutes to move the single axle trailer by hand (unlike a double axle, too hard to reverse) tie the pallets down. Did a quick tour of the garden again checking out some orchards that are springing up. Went home. Got a few shots of some paddocks in Yan Yean. Haven't seen them so green for a long time.
Summer is coming and so is the heat.
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Been pretty busy this week aside from work. I've got so many image threads going for the moment I'll only be adding summaries. The rest of the shots will go up, but slowly. I've got more pressing things to do and I've still got images outstanding working @ Dads, Mooses and the Wattle Festival.
Went to the Collingwood / St.Kilda match on Saturday, 2009SEP05. It was a classic match with a team that last on a Grand final in 1966. I'm doing better over the last couple of years going breaking my average of about 1 game per decade. St.Kilda ran all over Collingwood in the end playing a game similar to Basketball passing the ball around and running the Pies all over the ground.
Mt.Dandy for lunch
On Tuesday, 2009SEP08 shot up to Mt. Dandenong for lunch with Old man and sister. It was overcast down the hill, up the hill it rained and blew a gail. Lucky I came prepared - instead of t-shirts and shorts I packed some thermals. Had lunch at a local Pub beside the fire and then went up to the Rhododendron gardens to chat to the ARS members. The fire has killed off all but a handful of Dads plants which believe it or not numbered in the thousands. Dads specialty is slow growing, large leaved Rhododendrons which originate in high altitudes China. A young mans plant. So he's talking to see if he can get some plants to re-plant the property. We did a tour in the bus and he proceeded to talk the entire tour on the various plants he'd planted there to the astonishment of the new driver. It was pouring rain, windy and by the time we left pretty cold.
On Friday, 2009SEP11, Walked past a panel shop I keep an eye on. A few old cars and a few new looking ones. A Ford Customline was out the front. A Fairlane and a couple of unidentified cars lined up.
Saturday was the Diamond Creek Town fair. I've missed a few over the last couple of years because the fair used to be in March not September. Parked the car up on a hill and walked down to the ovals across the bridge. At first I got the impression the Fair had changed from what I last remember it. But as I moved from the Coventry oval to the old Soccer oval I found the CFA demonstrations, the running events, the Axemen, some car displays and a myriad of local stands. Pretty much as I remember. It got pretty warm in the afternoon. Walked back up the hill along Bage St. to Galatea St, where I used to live. Went home. A perfect day.
Earlier in the year we (myself, brother, sister and a good mate) organised power and water for Dad in the early days of Black Saturday. "K" got the call for some of the emergency water supply containers to be re-called. We were lucky enough to be able to use these ruggedised containers free of cost. They made the difference between having water and not having water. You can't trust the local authorities to be able to supply these basic services. So I organised a ute and drove up the same path through Eltham, Diamond Creek, Yarrambat, Doreen, Yan Yean, Whittlesea to Kinglake West. Today just happened to have a large bike event on the way so doing 60 in the diesel was ok. Got up to KLW, had some lunch. Hitched up some jury-rigged piping to remove the water from the Pallecon. It took 5minutes to break the box down, about 5 minutes to move the single axle trailer by hand (unlike a double axle, too hard to reverse) tie the pallets down. Did a quick tour of the garden again checking out some orchards that are springing up. Went home. Got a few shots of some paddocks in Yan Yean. Haven't seen them so green for a long time.
Summer is coming and so is the heat.
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Muston Park North Willoughby, suburban Sydney, 25 metres tall.. Germinating seeds from a planted tree, planted in the 1880s.
Note the green germinating growth and the sticky clear (mucilaginous) substance exuding from the seeds.
This is an abundant species in the sub tropical rainforests of the north of the state of New South Wales. Usually found in lower altitudes on soils of an moderate to good fertility.
The distribution is between Bellingen in New South Wales and Gladstone in Queensland. There are other varieties of this species further north in the tropics.
Though there is a single tree growing near Paterson, further south in the Hunter region. Possibly indigenous (not planted by white man). It's situated between the Paterson road and Tocal road, on the way from Maitland to Paterson.
The botanist L.A.S Johnson noted on this individual tree: "Mr D'Ombrain writes (12 Sept 1933): The T. trifoliolata is the only one that I can find in the area...and cannot find any history of [it]...it may have grown there and just been left standing for its splendid shade".
The species first entered scientific literature in 1858, published by Ferdinand von Mueller. Eventually his "Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae" had some two thousand plants. The first specimens of the White Booyong were collected from the Pine River and Brisbane River. The baron wrote the entire document in latin.
In the rainforest, White Booyong may be noticed by the relatively pale, cylindrical trunk and heavily buttressed base. Another feature is the pale underside to the leaves. A large tree, growing up to 45 metres in height. With a thick base, sometimes exceeding two metres across.
In the 19th and early 20th century, uncountable thousands of these trees were killed and burnt for land clearance. The timber is of use. The botanist A.G. Floyd writes; the straight grain is similar to the Silky Oak (Grevillea robusta). The timber is dark brown to red. Good for indoor work, lining, flooring, turnery and cabinet work.
At Davis Scrub, near Alstonville there's many White Booyongs growing in a small area. One has a full healthy canopy of leaves. But some dark patterns of termite trails. Presumably the tree is OK, and the insects are after dead wood only. Here's a picture.
Leaves form in threes, hence the specific epithet trifoliolatum. The underside is a silvery or metallic coppery colour. The three leaves in situ have got me confused. Thinking the plant was in the Rutaceae. But this is no citrus. Booyong is now in the mallow family (Malvaceae).
In the summer months, thousands of seeds spin down to the earth. The fruit is in the form of a samara, a round seed with a long wing. They are attractive, the colour of gold and appealing to children. Kids like to throw them into the air, and watch them spin to the ground. The seeds germinate easily.
One of the bird species that eat the seeds is the Brush Turkey. In this suburban park, there is a population of these birds and they would certainly eat them.
Here's a picture of my left hand and seeds from this same tree at Willoughby. Eventually, seedlings grew and were given to "Black Diamond" who had them planted out.
Muston Park is named after William Thomas Muston, the original owner of the land and Mayor of Willoughby in 1890. His home ‘Penshurst’ stood in the middle of the land which was subdivided and sold in 1921.
A long way from suburban Willoughby is a village, named after this tree. Booyong is situated in an area of the former Big Scrub. Not too far from Byron Bay and Lismore, up in the sub-tropics.
Opposite the school at Booyong is an impressive sub tropical rainforest remnant, named Booyong Flora Reserve.
The White Booyong is common here, and there's a small but beautiful double trunked tree of this type beside the walking track.
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This week in images
Been pretty busy this week aside from work. I've got so many image threads going for the moment I'll only be adding summaries. The rest of the shots will go up, but slowly. I've got more pressing things to do and I've still got images outstanding working @ Dads, Mooses and the Wattle Festival.
Went to the Collingwood / St.Kilda match on Saturday, 2009SEP05. It was a classic match with a team that last on a Grand final in 1966. I'm doing better over the last couple of years going breaking my average of about 1 game per decade. St.Kilda ran all over Collingwood in the end playing a game similar to Basketball passing the ball around and running the Pies all over the ground.
Mt.Dandy for lunch
On Tuesday, 2009SEP08 shot up to Mt. Dandenong for lunch with Old man and sister. It was overcast down the hill, up the hill it rained and blew a gail. Lucky I came prepared - instead of t-shirts and shorts I packed some thermals. Had lunch at a local Pub beside the fire and then went up to the Rhododendron gardens to chat to the ARS members. The fire has killed off all but a handful of Dads plants which believe it or not numbered in the thousands. Dads specialty is slow growing, large leaved Rhododendrons which originate in high altitudes China. A young mans plant. So he's talking to see if he can get some plants to re-plant the property. We did a tour in the bus and he proceeded to talk the entire tour on the various plants he'd planted there to the astonishment of the new driver. It was pouring rain, windy and by the time we left pretty cold.
On Friday, 2009SEP11, Walked past a panel shop I keep an eye on. A few old cars and a few new looking ones. A Ford Customline was out the front. A Fairlane and a couple of unidentified cars lined up.
Saturday was the Diamond Creek Town fair. I've missed a few over the last couple of years because the fair used to be in March not September. Parked the car up on a hill and walked down to the ovals across the bridge. At first I got the impression the Fair had changed from what I last remember it. But as I moved from the Coventry oval to the old Soccer oval I found the CFA demonstrations, the running events, the Axemen, some car displays and a myriad of local stands. Pretty much as I remember. It got pretty warm in the afternoon. Walked back up the hill along Bage St. to Galatea St, where I used to live. Went home. A perfect day.
Earlier in the year we (myself, brother, sister and a good mate) organised power and water for Dad in the early days of Black Saturday. "K" got the call for some of the emergency water supply containers to be re-called. We were lucky enough to be able to use these ruggedised containers free of cost. They made the difference between having water and not having water. You can't trust the local authorities to be able to supply these basic services. So I organised a ute and drove up the same path through Eltham, Diamond Creek, Yarrambat, Doreen, Yan Yean, Whittlesea to Kinglake West. Today just happened to have a large bike event on the way so doing 60 in the diesel was ok. Got up to KLW, had some lunch. Hitched up some jury-rigged piping to remove the water from the Pallecon. It took 5minutes to break the box down, about 5 minutes to move the single axle trailer by hand (unlike a double axle, too hard to reverse) tie the pallets down. Did a quick tour of the garden again checking out some orchards that are springing up. Went home. Got a few shots of some paddocks in Yan Yean. Haven't seen them so green for a long time.
Summer is coming and so is the heat.
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Family : Meliaceae
Thanks to PlantNerd who has nailed the ID of this plant as Cedrella odorata.
It does occur in the Mt Warning area.
It is a 40m tree with a potential diameter of 2m.
www.issg.org/database/species/ecology.asp?fr=1&si=343...
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Cedrela_odorata_foliage.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Cedrela_odorata-fruit.jpg
It has taken a long time to get an ID on this tree and I thank PlantNerd and all those who have offered suggestions.It is quite close in appearance to Australian Red Cedar which many people felt it most closely resembled.
Below is the original text placed under the images prior to it being identified.
Many years ago I collected what I seem to recall as some winged seeds in Northern NSW, possibly in the Mt Warning area ??. I threw them in a pot and they have now grown into medium sized trees with a distinctive mottled silvery whitish trunk.The leaves look similar to Dysoxylum sp. ,possibly Owenia sp.and possibly could be mistaken for Red Cedar (Toona Ciliata) as they were when we sent leaves off to be ID by the herbarium some years ago.
I do recall a winged seed, and that fits with Red Cedar but not Dysoxylum or Owenia,however some experts?? who have seen the trees confirm they do not believe it to be Red Cedar either mainly because the trunk and branches appear to be smoother and more silvery than Red Cedar and the leaves more yellow-green and it is not deciduous in the same way as Red Cedar.
My mystery tree DOES NOT have hairy underside to the leaves or the prominent tufts of hair at the lateral junction with the midrib and it appears not to have a terminal leaf as Dysoxylum does.
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Family : Meliaceae
Thanks to PlantNerd who has nailed the ID of this plant as Cedrella odorata.
It does occur in the Mt Warning area.
It is a 40m tree with a potential diameter of 2m.
www.issg.org/database/species/ecology.asp?fr=1&si=343...
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Cedrela_odorata_foliage.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Cedrela_odorata-fruit.jpg
It has taken a long time to get an ID on this tree and I thank PlantNerd and all those who have offered suggestions.It is quite close in appearance to Australian Red Cedar which many people felt it most closely resembled.
Below is the original text placed under the images prior to it being identified.
Many years ago I collected what I seem to recall as some winged seeds in Northern NSW, possibly in the Mt Warning area ??. I threw them in a pot and they have now grown into medium sized trees with a distinctive mottled silvery whitish trunk.The leaves look similar to Dysoxylum sp. ,possibly Owenia sp.and possibly could be mistaken for Red Cedar (Toona Ciliata) as they were when we sent leaves off to be ID by the herbarium some years ago.
I do recall a winged seed, and that fits with Red Cedar but not Dysoxylum or Owenia,however some experts?? who have seen the trees confirm they do not believe it to be Red Cedar either mainly because the trunk and branches appear to be smoother and more silvery than Red Cedar and the leaves more yellow-green and it is not deciduous in the same way as Red Cedar.
My mystery tree DOES NOT have hairy underside to the leaves or the prominent tufts of hair at the lateral junction with the midrib and it appears not to have a terminal leaf as Dysoxylum does.
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Family : Meliaceae
Thanks to PlantNerd who has nailed the ID of this plant as Cedrella odorata.
It does occur in the Mt Warning area.
It is a 40m tree with a potential diameter of 2m.
www.issg.org/database/species/ecology.asp?fr=1&si=343...
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Cedrela_odorata_foliage.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Cedrela_odorata-fruit.jpg
It has taken a long time to get an ID on this tree and I thank PlantNerd and all those who have offered suggestions.It is quite close in appearance to Australian Red Cedar which many people felt it most closely resembled.
Below is the original text placed under the images prior to it being identified.
Many years ago I collected what I seem to recall as some winged seeds in Northern NSW, possibly in the Mt Warning area ??. I threw them in a pot and they have now grown into medium sized trees with a distinctive mottled silvery whitish trunk.The leaves look similar to Dysoxylum sp. ,possibly Owenia sp.and possibly could be mistaken for Red Cedar (Toona Ciliata) as they were when we sent leaves off to be ID by the herbarium some years ago.
I do recall a winged seed, and that fits with Red Cedar but not Dysoxylum or Owenia,however some experts?? who have seen the trees confirm they do not believe it to be Red Cedar either mainly because the trunk and branches appear to be smoother and more silvery than Red Cedar and the leaves more yellow-green and it is not deciduous in the same way as Red Cedar.
My mystery tree DOES NOT have hairy underside to the leaves or the prominent tufts of hair at the lateral junction with the midrib and it appears not to have a terminal leaf as Dysoxylum does.
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Family :Meliaceae
I feel PlantNerd may have nailed the ID of this plant as Cedrella odorata.
Apparently it does occur in the Mt Warning area.
Apparently it is a 40m tree with a potential diameter of 2m.
www.issg.org/database/species/ecology.asp?fr=1&si=343...
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Cedrela_odorata_foliage.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Cedrela_odorata-fruit.jpg
It has taken a long time to get an ID on this tree and I thank PlantNerd and all those who have offered suggestions.
It is quite close in appearance to Australian Red Cedar which many people felt it most closely resembled.
Below is the text I placed under the images prior to it being identified.
Many years ago I collected what I seem to recall as some winged seeds in Northern NSW, possibly in the Mt Warning area ??. I threw them in a pot and they have now grown into medium sized trees with a distinctive mottled silvery whitish trunk. The leaves look similar to Dysoxylum sp. ,possibly Owenia sp.and possibly could be mistaken for Red Cedar (Toona Ciliata) as they were when we sent leaves off to be ID by the herbarium some years ago.
I do recall a winged seed, and that fits with Red Cedar but not Dysoxylum or Owenia, however some experts?? who have seen the trees confirm they do not believe it to be Red Cedar either mainly because the trunk and branches appear to be smoother and more silvery than Red Cedar and the leaves more yellow-green and it is not deciduous in the same way as Red Cedar.
My mystery tree DOES NOT have hairy underside to the leaves or the prominent tufts of hair at the lateral junction with the midrib and it appears not to have a terminal leaf as Dysoxylum does.
Check out Renewin' Strathewen
Check out Work @ Dads
This week in images
Been pretty busy this week aside from work. I've got so many image threads going for the moment I'll only be adding summaries. The rest of the shots will go up, but slowly. I've got more pressing things to do and I've still got images outstanding working @ Dads, Mooses and the Wattle Festival.
Went to the Collingwood / St.Kilda match on Saturday, 2009SEP05. It was a classic mahttp://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/3917404588/in/photostream/tch with a team that last on a Grand final in 1966. I'm doing better over the last couple of years going breaking my average of about 1 game per decade. St.Kilda ran all over Collingwood in the end playing a game similar to Basketball passing the ball around and running the Pies all over the ground.
Mt.Dandy for lunch
On Tuesday, 2009SEP08 shot up to Mt. Dandenong for lunch with Old man and sister. It was overcast down the hill, up the hill it rained and blew a gail. Lucky I came prepared - instead of t-shirts and shorts I packed some thermals. Had lunch at a local Pub beside the fire and then went up to the Rhododendron gardens to chat to the ARS members. The fire has killed off all but a handful of Dads plants which believe it or not numbered in the thousandhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/3917404588/in/photostream/s. Dads specialty is slow growing, large leaved Rhododendrons which originate in high altitudes China. A young mans plant. So he's talking to see if he can get some plants to re-plant the property. We did a tour in the bus and he proceeded to talk the entire tour on the various plants he'd planted there to the astonishment of the new driver. It was pouring rain, windy and by the time we left pretty cold.
On Friday, 2009SEP11, Walked past a panel shop I keep an eye on. A few old cars and a few new looking ones. A Ford Customline was out the front. A Fairlane and a couple of unidentified cars lined up.
Saturday was the Diamond Creek Town fair. I've missed a few over the last couple of years because the fair used to be in March not September. Parked the car up on a hill and walked down to the ovals across the bridge. At first I got the impression the Fair had changed from what I last remember it. But as I moved from the Coventry oval to the old Soccer oval I found the CFA demonstrations, the running events, the Axemen, some car displays and a myriad of local stands. Pretty much as I remember. It got pretty warm in the afternoon. Walked back up the hill along Bage St. to Galatea St, where I used to live. Went home. A perfect day.
Earlier in the year we (myself, brother, sister and a good mate) organised power and water for Dad in the early days of Black Saturday. "K" got the call for some of the emergency water supply containers to be re-called. We were lucky enough to be able to use these ruggedised containers free of cost. They made the difference between having water and not having water. You can't trust the local authorities to be able to supply these basic services. So I organised a ute and drove up the same path through Eltham, Diamond Creek, Yarrambat, Doreen, Yan Yean, Whittlesea to Kinglake West. Today just happened to have a large bike event on the way so doing 60 in the diesel was ok. Got up to KLW, had some lunch. Hitched up some jury-rigged piping to remove the water from the Pallecon. It took 5minutes to break the box down, about 5 minutes to move the single axle trailer by hand (unlike a double axle, too hard to reverse) tie the pallets down. Did a quick tour of the garden again checking out some orchards that are springing up. Went home. Got a few shots of some paddocks in Yan Yean. Haven't seen them so green for a long time.
Summer is coming and so is the heat.
next >>>
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Family : Proteaceae
This small plant was labelled as Macadamia jansenii in Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens but it looks like that ID is incorrect.
M. jansenii is not described as having toothed leaves which Macadamia ternifolia certainly does have so PlantNerd is correct in his comment on my other image in suggesting that it is actually Macadamia ternifolia..
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