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A walk around my garden today.  Yes, I am desperate for new photos.

My husband is doing some maintenance  on the outside of the house, the weather is sunny but cool and I have been cooking as we have friends coming over for afternoon tea.  That is my life these days.  Spring is definitely in the air! 

A couple of weeks ago we had two large trees removed from our garden as the large roots were causing damage to our paths and brickwork so they had to go. 

 I have a few plants ready to put out in the garden  as soon as we prepare the area as we had the tree stumps mulched so there is a huge amount of sawdust which needs to be spread around.

My veggie garden raised bed

Raised veggie bed in May 2020

Ron making the garden bed

The broccoli has gone to seed

The bees are happy

The Grevillea are doing well

A few Freesias for perfume

The Violas are so pretty

The Cyclamen keeps flowering

The first time my orchid has flowered

The pansies from last year are still flowering

Not sure of the name

Some more plants ready to be planted

My 30 year old Camelia

Another Grevillea in the front garden

Another little Australian native flower

A Clivia which I am going to move to a shady part of the garden

Another pretty Australian native flower

The Scilla flowers start like this (above) and then when in full bloom look like this (below)

This pretty plant is a Scilla - not native to Australia

We have a few Wattle trees in our yard and a few in the street too.

The Bottle Brush is just starting to flower

Not all the flowers are open yet

Rain on the Rock

Travelling back in time  .....  2006

In 2006 we travelled from our home in Adelaide to  Uluru (Ayers Rock).  This was our first trip to the Northern Territory and also the longest trip we had done in our van.  We were amazed at how the colour changed depending on the time of day and the weather.  We were fortunate that it rained one day and the Rock took on a totally different colour and the water running off the rock was wonderful to see.

The walk around the base of the rock is about 10.6 km.

Above, the rain on the Rock was spectacular and from a distance it was very different looking and the colour was more of a purple colour.

Uluru is a sandstone rock formation and is 335 km south west of Alice Springs.  Uluru is sacred to the Pitjantjatjara Anangu, the Aboriginal people of the area.  Around the rock there is an abundance of springs, waterholes, rock caves and ancient paintings.

In 2006 tourists were allowed to climb the Rock but were advised that it was a sacred site to the aboriginal people and therefore it was not encouraged.  We respected their culture and didn't climb it but quite a few did.  

It is a very difficult climb, very steep and quite dangerous and many climbers have died from accidents during their trek up the Rock.  There was a chain guided hand rail from "chicken rock"  up to the top but many people didn't venture past Chicken Rock which is the rocky area not far from the base.  

The rock face is steep, the safety chains were installed more than 50 years ago, and there’s no shade to protect climbers from high desert temperatures. It’s also incredibly windy up there. There have been 35 recorded deaths on the Uluru climb, most of them due to heart attacks. (This paragraph was taken from the Internet).

There is now no climbing allowed on the Rock, but you can walk around the base which we did and it was a great walk with lots of caves and interesting things to see.

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