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Sunday, October 30, 2011

Jacaranda City

Around this time last year I went on a 'Jacaranda Stroll' to snap some pics of some of the hundreds of gorgeous jacarandas around our town.
You can see that post here.

I left it a little later in October this year to capture the purple carpet, you'll see what I mean by that in a moment.
I've been out and about for the past week.
October has been very grey this year so there aren't many blue sky shots.
But the jacarandas are so gorgeous it doesn't really matter.
Now that I have a better camera, I hope I have taken some better photographs.

So, without further ado...
here is our town resplendent in purple bloom...


One zoomed view from our front patio


And another one


The neighbour's jacaranda overhanging our backyard


This one is just outside our school


I discovered this last year, a white jacaranda!
This is the only one I have ever seen.


The 'purple carpet' and Miss4 giving you an idea of the size of the tree


Yes, that is my car!
 

Our local park






A jacaranda lined street



From the top of our multi-storey car park you can see the jacarandas dotted all over the town

Looking from the car park across to our hill.
Yes, my house is in this picture.
No, I'm not telling which one it is.

Behind the car park

And finally, some close-ups

The only other place I've lived that has better jacaradas than our town was Toowoomba.
Oh boy, is it a pretty city in spring!