Our daughter had arranged for a bunch of flowers for Frances to be picked up from a florist in Braddon. I decided the simple thing to do was to walk there to pick them up. Here is the direct route (I think the blue line is visible).
There are many bars on Lonsdale St and at 1415 on a Friday afternoon they were all full on people having a liquud lunch. Walking past them carrying a vase full of pretty flowers seemed to draw a bit of arttention. The females all gave me smiles (suggesting they were thinking "Isn't that sweet."). The males gave cheesy grins (more along the lines of "Whats he done that he needs to buy flowers?") Here is a selfie - I couldn't work out how to get the Rainbow Roundabout in the image!
On November 20, as:
- the weather was pretty pukey;
- Commonwealth Park is still closed); and
- Frances didn't want to push matters so soon after her hand operation
... we restricted our morning walk to a lap of Glebe Park. There were a lot of attractive flowers in bloom.
Hellebores
White Paeonies
A red Paeony (suffering a little from the rain)
An emerging rose.
A lone rhododendron
No idea what this is.
A bed of acanthus.
The most surprising find was several clumps of (native) Potato Orchids (
Gastrodia sesamoides).
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