Commonwealth Park (and other bits of Canberra) in June

Being back in Canberra our day started with a dog walk in Commonweath Park.  We had wondered how the walk was going to be affected by Floriade preparations and the answer was "Not much".  This is possibly because it was a Sunday and thus not a working day.

There has been a fair amount of beavering going on.

 The weather has cooled down a fair bit so the trees in Glebe Park have lost their leaves ...

 ... and the fruit bats have all left.

 However quite a lot of the pansies have started to flower so I don't know how many will be left by the formal start of Floriade in September!

 The final bit of the walk was graced by 12 Australian King Parrots, which are always nice to see.

I had read that the ACT has finally got a Container Deposit Scheme.  I didn't think Nerang Pool was a part of the scheme however!

In the late morning my attention was caught by a lot of blue and red flashing lights in the public housing area of Reid.  At least 3 carloads of Canberra's finest doing Constabulary duties at various addresses.  Just as in the Pirates of Penzance a policeman's loot was apparently not a nappy one as no-one appeared to get the arm put on them.''

Then the sun decided to show it could do as good a job with Black Mountain as with the hills of Mallacoota.