Photo-a-Day 13th September - Thursday

[byslantedlight]

Another walk in the local preserve...

...and some flowers on the way back.

Comments

[milomaus.livejournal.com]

Just wow!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Hee! *g* It is rather nice around here, sometimes - though I'd still rather be less in the city...

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

The flowers are beautiful.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

They're lovely, aren't they! I had to look up the first one, and I think it's a type of Grevillea, which is native down here. I know the second one very well, but the name's not coming to me just now... *headdesk*

[heliophile-oxon.livejournal.com]

Sooo beautiful. And those roads ... now I'm longing for a walk in the sunshine along a track like that one on the right :-s

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

There are definitely some lovely places here, and peaceful... The only trouble with walking in the sunshine on tracks like the one on the right is that you have to keep your eyes down, to a certain extent, to make sure you don't stand on a snake! *g* Luckily less likely in early spring!

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

What the heck is that first flower? It's gorgeous! The rest of the photos are lovely, too. :-)

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I think it's a type of Grevillea, which is native down here.

And thank you! *g*

[msmoat.livejournal.com]

Wow! What a lovely place to walk.

So many of the photos you post of flora and fauna are so exotic to me--not surprisingly. But I wonder, you've lived so many years away from all this, do you feel like you've come back to a familiar childhood or does it seem at all "exotic" to you?

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

It really is lovely, I'm glad I found it, because mostly I wish my sister lived less in suburbia and further away from a city! *g*

It's odd coming back these days, because the people I come back to visit have moved a long way from any of the places we ever lived when I was a kid. When I visit now I'm visiting Melbourne, which is somewhere I visited a bare handful of times growing up, and we never knew "city life". The closest I got was two weeks doing work experience in Melbourne with the rest of the Year 11s in high school!

Most of the flowers - even what I had to look up to find out was called a Grevillea - are more or less familiar though, because we sometimes lived way out in the country, but we sometimes lived in (very!) small towns where people had gardens, or would visit bigger towns and go to the botanical gardens and so on - and of course you see them on tv and in magazines and so on as a matter of course. So if anything the flora is actually the one more comforting, familiar thing that I have come back to!

I definitely appreciate it all more now than when I was growing up and just wanted to escape - but I rather suspect that's the difference between 15 and 51 more than anything else... *vbg*

[ariss-tenoh.livejournal.com]

That flower looks like it belongs in a sci-fi setting!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Hee - it does, doesn't it! I think it's a type of Grevillea... *g*

[cyanne]

These are lovely. The flowers are beautiful but I really like the shadows on the path and the reflection in the water.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I'm really pleased you like the shadows and the light (again, I think! *g*) - I did too! And thank you!

[loxleyprince.livejournal.com]

That second spot looks nice and tranquil and the vibrancy of the flowers is wonderful.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

It was rather a contrast - shadowy peace, and sun-shone vibrant colours! *g*

[freetraveller15.livejournal.com]

Such beautiful flowers, and scenery.
On Instagram I follow an account (@australianflowers) which has taught me a lot of names for these more exotic species.
PS Could the 2nd one be an azalea, or rhododendron?

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

You know, now I'm looking at that second one again, I'm wondering if it was the prunus (or what I thought might be prunus) that I took a picture of because I love them - the ones with bare twigs and gorgeous red flowers, but this is in the sun so it's not as clear as it usually is...