YOU feel empty, too?! Sigh!

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The first picture is the Western half of our front garden from the street. In the right foreground is the letter-box and our front path, the one I made by hand the Dark brown trunk is the red-flowering iron bark, (gum tree), to the right rear is one of our large silver-birch trees to the left of that is a bottle-brush tree (red bottle-brush flowers) not yet in flower. Neighbours house is same brick behind all that.

The second picture is taken further back to the East, still facing West again. Shows the trunk of the BIG gum on the left, a native wax-flower shrub in the bund or swaled bed, with a wattle to the right also in the bund. You can see the front path I hand laid further back and some of the perennials (seen below). You can also glimpse a white rhododendron bush against the house.

Third? The rhododendron's white flowers are drying off a bit now, but the closer Daphne will soon be in sickly-sweet flower. You can see the western boundary and edge of the front swale or bund, which helps retain rain water on OUR block. And, lots of the mulch which has replaced lawn in our scheme. Silver Birch's trunk at left rear.

Four. More of the western half of the front garden, more mulch and the huge bunches of bulbs and corms I haven't lifted and separated for way too long. A big job after summer to lift separate and replant them more spread out.

The next four are of some perennial flowers, they come up every year!! Right beside the hand-laid, gravel and concrete aggregate path that I laboured on a couple of years back.

Speaking of empty nests here's a full nest. Built by a pair of Pied Currawong in one of our three gum trees out the front. One of the parents is hanging off the side in the first picture, 20 metres up and in bright sun, and baby digi-cam set to 3X and SFA resolution, but it is there. I didn't notice it at the time because the sun was too bright, I was surprised the pictures came out at all.

The tree is a River Peppermint / eucalyptus elata - of which there are many in that hill-top park in SF CA with the band stand and seats? and heaps more at the Praesidium.

A following post will have pics of the back garden.

Warmest

Timothy Bailey
The Skyptical Mensurer and Audio Scrounger

And gladly would he learn and gladly teach - Chaucer. ;-)!

'Still not saluting.'

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• Pied Currawong - try the audio clip

 Trust me on this one, Timbo. - Bruce Kendall 09:49:18 11/05/09 (0)