Whistlers Rest

We were out at the Rest again this weekend.  Cut down a dead tree to convert into firewood. There are wattles out all over the block and other plants looking like they will flower soon.  An exciting time of year.

It was incredibly warm on the weekend.  Out at the block the wattle continues to bloom and I see that among the shrubs there are another two types of wattle which are working on flowering soon.  I also discovered these flowers on what I thought to be a native cypress sapling.  I didn't know they flowered like this. I checked the bigger trees and they don't have flowers so perhaps it is something entirely different.   There is amazing diversity across this acre of ground - certainly not a monoculture.

This home in Clandulla looks all patched up but I rather like the effect.

Back in December I was surprised delighted to find the park had old fashioned play equipment  and now it's gone. Is it us, do we make these things happen?  20 years ago we moved to the mountains and there were wonderful old swings and slides in the park over the road that were too soon replaced by plastic things. Now it's happened here. To my dismay curbing and guttering looks like it is working it's way down our street in the mountains. Is that going to happen here too?  With a bit of luck it will take another 20 years for that to happen, we don't even have sewerage at Clandulla yet.

We were out at the Rest this weekend and yippee the wattle is in flower and even bees about.  How exciting is that, winter is slowly drawing to a close.

Winter wattles are now flowering along the roadside so each time we arrive at the Rest I run eagerly to our wattle hoping it too will be in flower but it's time has not yet come.

We decided to go for a drive down the side roads last weekend and found this not far out of town. There appear to be quite a lot of small farms on the outskirts too.