Ragtag Daily Prompt Saturday: Scattered
Tag: jacaranda flowers
Square Trees #28 – in my town
Becky’s Square Photo Challenge July: Square Tree
The nearest town to my place is Grafton. It hosts an annual floral festival, the oldest in Australia where the town spend ten days of purple madness and fun. Set when the Jacaranda Trees are in flower, this year from 29 October to 7 November, the town is awash in purple from the townsfolk dressed in purple to the magnificent trees showing all their glory.
Here is your song for today
The trees do look a treat
I love the purple of the trees against a grey sky, which seems to happen most years as it is also the start of our wet season.
The mass of flowers is great but they individual flowers look good as well.
While writing this post I also thought of a photo I posted many years ago. The building I was working in had a Jacaranda Tree close by. One day I noticed there was something in the tree. Sorry Becky, it’s not square.
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Under the trees, a purple carpet
Debbies Six Word Saturday
In my town, Grafton, it is time for the Jacaranda trees to be at their showy best. Known as the Jacaranda City, the annual Jacaranda Festival has been put on hold but no one told the trees.
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Special delivery
Fandango’s One Word Challenge: Delivery
Amid the colour
the flowers
of Spring
we await
the special
delivery
only a parent
can bring.
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Purple
The word prompt from Debbie at Travel with Intent: Purple
Check out Debbies Purple – click on the above link – It is stunning and I was thinking what do I have that’s purple to be able to contribute to this photo challenge. There is no way I can do wonderful lights like Debbies post. But I do live in a city which just had it’s Jacaranda Festival and has Jacaranda trees. But I wanted more so it’s floral all the way.
Here’s my bit of Purple
Better start with a Jacaranda tree
Purple berries from a native vine
Looking into a Torenia flower
Another Native flower from my place. Haven’t identified it as yet.
The Native Wisteria or Wild Sarsparilla that grows all over my place
and a regular Wisteria with bonus Wanderer Butterfly
Purple Pansies
Another purple flower I found somewhere
Wonderful Water Lilies
Another Australian Native flower found on the coast, Purple Fringe Lily
My old mates Iris
Back to the streets of Grafton
Thought about a song. Here is the original from 1958
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Places People Visit
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge : Places People Visit
I am going to be very home town for places people visit. At this time of year, my town of Grafton is awash with purple. The Jacaranda trees are starting to come into flower and the town is gearing up for the annual Jacaranda Festival.
The Jacaranda Festival is the longest running floral festival in Australia. People come from all over the world to Grafton to visit and wander the town, look at the gardens and marvel at the purple everywhere.
The trees look a treat
There is even a few White Jacaranda trees around town
The streets look a treat. When the blossoms drop the ground is a carpet of purple.
Even the birds like to nest in the Jacaranda trees
There is poignant street art.
I have some people booked into my place this weekend from Taiwan so maybe I will have a busy few days over the weeks to come at the Durranbah Bush Retreat
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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Week 3
Topics include – Purple, Colours, Wood, Garage, Vintage Cars
A Fig Bird on the nest among the Purple Jacaranda flowers
Not really a Vintage Car but a fabulous truck
A Wood fungus
The wonderful Colour on a leaf
See other fun found at Cees
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Jacaranda
It would be very remiss of me not to have a Jacaranda in Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: The letter J
You see, the city closest to where I live, Grafton, has the oldest floral festival in Australia, the Jacaranda Festival which begins tomorrow. Grafton has many Asian tourists at the moment coming to see the spectacular Jacaranda trees which line many streets and are in nearly every park in town. It is a fun time especially next Thursday when lots of the shops dress up and put on a show to entertain the tourists and locals. The streets are paved with purple and I even saw a Japanese tourist making a Jacaranda “snow” angel in one of the parks.
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Black & White Sunday – Maternal
The Fig Bird tending her nest among the Jacaranda blossoms
Checking on the nest before she settles down
Keeping an eye on me
Time to sit
This is the colour version with the male Fig Bird on the nest
See more great photos on Lost in Translations Black & White Sunday
