Photo-a-Day 13th September - Thursday

[byslantedlight]

Another walk in the local preserve...

...and some flowers on the way back.

Comments

[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*