SUMMER FLOWERS ON SHANTRON FARM.

The New Year is getting into its stride and there are Summer flowers blooming on Shantron Farm. Here is a sample of the non-native flowers:

Gardenias.

The perfume is delicious! Four gardenia plants are blooming around the chook shed.

Pond Garden Plant.

Glorious in yellow and orange, these plants are starting to bloom around the pond.

Passion Flower.

Passion fruit gone wild. Delicate flowers with a touch of blue.

Chook Shed Shade.

This pant is growing with gay abandon over a corner of the chook shed providing welcome shade.

Sweet Potato.

The sweet potato vine is running wild again so fruit will appear in all sorts of strange places in my house yard. And ants have also appeared in strange places ....

Wester Boundary Protection.

This plant adds a bit of shade on the Western side of the house in the heat of Summer.

Gorgeous Colour.

And this common plant adds gorgeous colour to the house yard.

SPRING AND SUMMER SUNSETS ON SHANTRON FARM.

There's nothing like a sunset. Autumn sunsets are usually the best but this year they have been surpassed by the Spring/Summer sunsets.

Weird black clouds.

Pastel sunset.

Very Pink.

More orange.

Sorta grey with horses.

Even more orange.

Orange with con trails from planes.

Angry blue-black cloud.

More speccy con trails.

Clouds with pink underbellies.

Pink underbellies with a touch of yellow.

Looking a bit angry.

And as the sun sets ......

.... the moon rises.

AROUND THE GARDEN POND.

The plants around the garden pond are growing well. There are some beautiful lilly-type plants.

Day Lillies. They only last for one day. Ephemeral.

Two types of lilly.

And these ones grow like weeds.

Gorgeous delicate orchids.

Native bush tucker.

VERONICA UP A TREE ON SHANTRON FARM.

Veronica, the visiting cat, is up the liquid amber tree on Shantron Farm. Veronica is a Northern Territory cat, born in Katherine and then resident in Batchelor. She is the mother of Navron Fred, also born in Katherine, NT. Veronica is spending 2012 on Shantron Farm while her owner is overseas.

It is the end of Winter On Shantron Farm so the new leaves are starting to appear on the liquid amber trees.  The mulberry trees are also getting new leaves and good crops of mulberries. A bantam chook is sitting on eggs so I should have chickens by the end of September. It is time to get the veggie patch going again with lots of tomatoes, greens and herbs.

Watch Veronica up the tree.

SHELLEY, DANCING QUEEN.

COOGEE BEACH IN WINTER.

Beaches are great, even in Winter.  Sydney has a wonderful choice of beaches and I've had a long association with Coogee Beach.


The video tells stories of Coogee Beach, Sydney, Australia. From the Coogee Palace Aquarium which was opened in 1887 to the ocean baths at the north and south ends of the beach.

Not learning to swim, wagging uni lectures and walking from the Opera House to Coogee after a New Years Eve concert because nobody thought about transport.


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GOING LENNOX SCOTTISH.

And probably a bit mad too - just like Macbeth and his mob.  Saw a production of Macbeth in the Glasgow Botanic Gardens in 2009.  Can't make head or tail of Shakespeare's language at the best of times and with Glaswegian accents on top, I couldn't figure out who was who.  Except they all seemed nuts.  And did I mention it was a wee bit cold even though it was the middle of Summer?

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