Author Archives: Christine R

I wondered how many types of wattle (Acacia) we have native to Australia. Wikipedia suggests 960. Wow! That’s a lot. This pretty wattle, pictured below, is beginning to bloom in the National Park bordering Forest Drive – we walk it at least once a week.  I first noticed this small shrub yesterday.  Indeed, I have noticed different types of wattle in different stages of flowering everywhere we go.

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And these are Black Wattle trees, near the junction of Forest Drive and Nagambie Road. The property here has them growing all along their fence line and really brightens the roadside this time of the year.

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Australian native plants

Wattle

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After a drawn-out foggy morning, the sun shone the rest of the day. The cows soak it up, as usual. Cool in the shade, though.

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Agricultural, cows, sheep

Sunny rural scene

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Haven’t seen the cats much this week. So fished around in my blog photo archive for the picture of the oil painting I did back in the early 1980s of my cat Charlie.

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At the last second after pressing ‘schedule’ I decided to take a new photo and crop a portrait – the other was pretty atrocious and made a badly proportioned painted cat look even worse! Sincere apologies as I’ve learned those who get notified by email received a link to the deleted post. Oopsie. As Maxwell Smart would say ‘I missed it by that much.’

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Friday Feline

Charlie – in oils

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