morally ugly movie, lovely park.

Paperbark Tomato Lake, Belmont, WA


Gums on Tomato Lake, Belmont, WA

Poppy was at daycare so we took the other little girls to "The Zookeeper", marred by the gratuitous nastiness of the hero when wooing his girl. Which we followed by going to Tomato Lake. First time the experience of taking the girls to the park had something for the adults and something for the kids. We walked around the lake, looking at the waterbirds and just enjoying the park, which had lovely gums, banksias and paperbarks and an impressive swamp.


Egrets roosting


Jamie and Ellie on the spider

Lily?

Common as dirt. And lovely. And I don't know what it is. (UQ)

I wasn't a fan of my photos today. But I did like the stamens of this. One of the things I like about taking photos of flowers is that I generally need to magnify the image and in doing so, I see in the photo what I don't see when I just look. So here, when I see these normally, I see the ragged flower, but today I saw the stamens standing quite free of the flower. And the parts with all the pollen are hanging quite vertically, yet the flower itself is all over the place.

And the paperbark flower below, seen carelessly, looks something like a bottle brush, but when you see it up close, what an amazing structure it has.


Paperbark. UQ.

Sea mist & sunlight on Whale Beach Road

Whale Beach Road, late afternoon

The tail end of the Queensland storms has brought big seas for the last three days, so that these trees on Whale Beach Road (wattle, paperbark and strelitzia) are seen with sunlight coming through a sea mist.