Late afternoon in Morningside.
Yellow and purple-blue jacarandas
Stand, in contest on Kates Street.
Puffed up in show of flower bells,
Attracting bees to plunder, and
Springtime passers by, to wonder
At the temporary beauty beheld.
Jacaranda
They come in yellow too?
I have been walking past the most glorious yellow flowering trees for the last few weeks.
It turns out they are a variety of jacaranda! Spring in Brisbane, I highly recommend it.
Brisbane Jacaranda
Spring is incomplete without seeing jacarandas. I am happy to report that Brisbane has an abundance of exquisite examples. This one provides shade for a weatherboard Queenslander home.
Cricket and Jacarandas
White picket fence and cricketers. The perfect accent to verdant green grass and purple jacarandas.
Magnificenct Jacaranda
Spring in Sydney, the time when the Jacaranda trees bloom. They barely have had time to loose their leaves before being adorned with sweet, almost unpleasant, purple, trumpet shaped flowers.
Jacarandas are difficult to photograph, their magnificenct colour being lost against a blue Antipodean sky. I was fortunate to spot this one from a third floor window, while waiting for a meeting to begin.
November winds and rain will soon scatter the petals. Regally carpeting the ground under the Jacaranda’s skeletal canopy of twisted branches.
Jacaranda dreaming
Gnarled jacaranda tree, Petersham Park.
Jacaranda shade
This old Jacaranda provides shade from the noon sun. It’s feather like leaves gently undulate, caressing the breeze.
Here is a post about the shadows cast by the Jacaranda’s branches in Spring.
Ground colour
When my mind is grappling with burdens nature lends a hand. This carpet of purple-blue jacaranda petals marked a path towards home.
An offering
Gentle transition from tree,
Through air,
To water.
Behold this offering
Unto the heavens;
Reflected above.
Jacaranda shadows
This jacaranda’s flower buds are about to burst forth, Petersham Park, Sydney, Australia. The tree’s branch system is a twisting and tortured sight. I like the shadows on the grass; I have accentuated them with a noir filter.
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