Skip to main content

Flower carpet



The sand dunes around Roxby Downs were resplendent with wildflowers. These are known as poached egg daisies.   The late afternoon light was wonderful so more photos below.


Comments

  1. JimNovember 4, 2010 at 8:24 AM

    Great wildflowers.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Megan CoyleNovember 4, 2010 at 9:28 AM

    I wouldn't mind having a flower carpet like that in my backyard :)

    ReplyDelete
  3. WinamNovember 4, 2010 at 10:02 AM

    I love wildflowers. Desert ones are so exotic to me.

    ReplyDelete
  4. freefallingNovember 4, 2010 at 8:18 PM

    I really love these photos - the grey weathered bit of tree, the red, red dirt, the poppy-up little flowers.
    I love the tiniest touch of purple in the third shot and the shape of the tree in shot two.

    ReplyDelete
  5. JulieNovember 4, 2010 at 9:39 PM

    4th shot ... whether up or down ...

    love it ...

    ReplyDelete
  6. ELKNovember 5, 2010 at 7:46 AM

    oh really a special series to honor this beautiful field of flowers..poached eggs..good name actually

    ReplyDelete
  7. SusanNovember 5, 2010 at 4:11 PM

    Such a fine collection of photos.
    The red desert dirt with it's windswept ripples makes a wonderful background to the flowers.

    ReplyDelete
  8. UnknownNovember 6, 2010 at 4:15 AM

    The reddish soil makes such great backgrouds!

    ReplyDelete
  9. diane bNovember 27, 2010 at 2:23 PM

    Great shots make mine of the same flower look ordinary.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The end

I retire from the workforce this week and to celebrate have decided to retire my current blogs and start afresh with a single consolidated blog -  My Bright Field  - to record the delights of my new life adventure. If you are interested follow me over there.  I will still be Sweet Wayfaring and collecting Royal Hotels.  The delights I discover along the way will appear together with my gardens and towns where I live.
Post a Comment
Read more

Larras Lee

We passed through Bakers Swamp without noticing anything.  Then reached our last dot on the map for this trip - Larras Lee and saw this.  The roadside monument says: In Memory of  WILLIAM LEE  (1794 - 1870)  of "Larras Lake"  a pioneer of the sheep  and cattle industry  and first member for  Roxburgh under responsible  government (1856 - 1859).  This stone was erected  by his descendants.  --- 1938 --- This is a repost from a few days ago. Thinking I would use this for this week’s Taphophile Tragics post I dug a little further into William Lee’s story, it’s a very colonial Australian one. William was born of convict parents, living his childhood years around the Sydney region. In his early 20s he was issued with some government cattle, recommended as a suitable settler and granted 134 acres at Kelso near Bathurst. He was one of the first in the area and did well. A few years later he was granted a ram and an increase in his land to 300 acres. William developed a r
9 comments
Read more

Coolibah?

Is that a Coolibah tree beside the abandoned house? Every Australian knows about Coolibah trees because the bush ballad Waltzing Matilda is nigh on our unoffical national anthem but most of us live nowhere near the inland where they grow. Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong, Under the shade of a Coolibah tree, And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled, You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me. Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda, You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me, And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me.
13 comments
Read more