Sunday, September 17, 2023

[Luv2shoot]

HAPPY SUNDAY ALL,
We enjoy eating at a cute little mom-and-pop restaurant when we are up north.  They have good food and a friendly staff.
The name of the restaurant is "SUGAR CREEK".  There is a mess of signs on the walls and other country-like decorative KNICK KNACKS all over the place.  This one caught my eye. Taken with my cell phone (portrait mode). 

Blessings to all,
LORELL

[Man From Ironbark]

I've always loved wooden toys. That's quite descriptive of the many uses productive of growing your own by planting more trees. Which I've done a lot of. I've been known to exasperate mathematical minds by saying; I've planted six million of them.
Today which is only four days into spring, we'll get to 35˚C. Currently at 9:20AM Monday 18th weare already at 29˚C.

Diagonals of shadows and light.

[Rich]

Lorell, that is a neat truck!

Peter, nice light and shadow photo. I hope your summer is cooler than ours was!

[Man From Ironbark]

Today is Tuesday here and it is still 35˚ C. With a hot north westerly blowing at 55km/h. It is only 19 days into spring. If this keeps up we will be getting fan forced oven winds of around 50˚ C.
It is amazing that flowers such as these Dampiera can survive in such conditions. It looks like a spider is hunkering down inside the back flower.



I'm having to water my desert peas to stop the flowers wilting too quickly.



These Purple Bearded orchids will be hating the weather out in the dry hills.

[Luv2shoot]

The flower of the dessert peas is very attractive. Does the plant produce edible peas?
Your purple flower looks likes a flower that grows happily in Florida called a 
Bougainvillea. 

I wonder if the two are related.

[Man From Ironbark]

Dampiera is a genus of about 70 species of flowering plants in the family Goodeniaceae, all of which are endemic to Australia. Plants in the genus Dampiera are subshrubs or herbs with sessile leaves, flowers with five small sepals and blue, violet or pink, rarely white, two-lipped flowers. The genus is named for William Dampier, an English sea captain who landed on the north-west coast of Western Australia in 1688 and 1699 and collected about twenty-five species of the first Australian plants to reach European herbaria.

They are related in the fact that they belong to the clade: eudicots, those with a pair of dicotyledons. That's as close as they get.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudicots
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dampiera
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bougainvillea