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Do the flowers know something?

It’s pretty dry here at the moment… our inch-and-a-bit rainfall about a month ago – which did start a green shoot happening in the grass – has evaporated. Storms are skirting our area, with a shower here and there. But nothing substantial to provide hope that this drought will end soon.

Our forecasts don’t hold much hope at all…

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That 28-day prediction is NOT inspiring… actually it’s downright depressing.

And yet, that last lot of rain (as small as it was) seemed to set the ‘flowering trigger’ OFF in many plants around the ridges.

flowers_3021 eVerbena (considered a weed, albeit an extremely pretty one) growing up through a cattle grid on a paddock road…

flowers_3178 eA yellow flower on a galvanised burr…

flowers_3167 eAnd the cactus are in flower too… it always amazes me that such an ugly plant can have such delicate flowers.

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The creek – which saw such devastation in floods a few years ago –  is home to the most incredible bottle trees blooms at the moment.

Every tree is bent downstream from the force of the water back then (all would have been completely submerged) yet they look incredibly healthy now.

bees_3248 eAnd the bees? They are BUZZZZ-eeeee.

(Sorry. Bee joke.)

bees_3267 eIt does the soul good to see insect life (especially bees) so active and prolific.

Native bees and honey bees are everywhere along this creek – such a hive of activity.

(Yes, I know, that was really bad!)

It makes me wonder… do the flowers and the bees know something we don’t?

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Maybe there is a little hope?

Maybe Mother Nature is telling us to hang in there?

Maybe something beautiful (and wet) might happen soon?

In hope, and the joy of flowers

🙂

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