"This is the wattle,
Symbol of our land.
You can put it in a bottle,
Or hold it in your hand."
My crazy husband loves telling this silly jingle to small children - always gets a quizzical look from them!!
@madeinnl Thanks Ko - you don't think that the b&w abstract would do for a while? :) Still looking for another..... I think I like colours too much! :)
Yess, love it, the rhyme and the wattle. I thought I knew all the old school-yard rhymes, clearly not. Our Cootamundra is nearly out, that's the first of our several varieties.
@golftragic There are so many and so they are so varied - all the different colours and structures - but all so tough! All seem so aussie - but apparently they have them in South Africa as well.. :)
@casablanca Hi Cassablanc a - glad you like Errol's little jingle especially because it must mean you've recovered from your hospital stint! I don't have any special lens's - just the inbuilt effects in my Cannon Point and Shoot. They seem to work quite well! Quite fun! :)
@robz Going to have to check out my camera and see if mine does anything interesting like this. I notice there is a button called "effects" but I have never been able to work out what it does LOL!
@golftragic Could be - but I hve a feeling they have very large and spiky tree forms too - not like anything of ours. I didn't realize their eucalypts were imports. You learn something every day!! Cheers Rob
@robz Oh yeah, now I know what you mean. Their acacias don't seem to be like our wattles. As for eucalypts they're now found in a number of countries and in some of those are considered to be a pest species. Payback for all the rubbish Oz has got from all over the world? Think rabbits, European carp, prickly pear, Bathurst and Noogoora burrs etc, etc.
July 10th, 2018
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