My Bright Field

Moreton Bay figs are wonderful trees.  This one is in the Botanic Gardens in Sydney.

Today's photo is to match this week's book. I enjoy playing the piano, it is relaxing. A book I have read recently Girls at the Piano by Virginia Lloyd is a memoir with a difference, in that it follows the stories of Virginia and her grandmother who were both talented musicians who chose different paths.  As a girl who learnt piano I found it a fascinating read, though it made me realise just how lacking I am in natural musical talent.

The marigolds are flowering prolifically at Rose Orchard Haus at the moment.  These wonderful little plants self seed so I get pretty flowers without any trouble on my part.  They are the colours of Autumn, though 'Autumn colour' is still a little way off.

At the State Library there is an unexpected sculpture on the window sill. It is Trim who is "Matthew Flinders intrepid cat who circumnavigated Australia with his master 1801 - 1803".  The statue of Matthew Flinders is nearby. A poem for today The Owl and the Pussycat  by Edward Lear

We are already seeing a whisper of Autumn with misty days and a little bit of colour with falling leaves ... not long now. Reflection: Psalm 104:19-23 New International Version (NIV) "He made the moon to mark the seasons, and the sun knows when to go down. You bring darkness, it becomes night, and all the beasts of the forest prowl. The lions roar for their prey and seek their food from God. The sun rises, and they steal away; they return and lie down in their dens. Then people go out to their work, to their labor until evening."

Our neighbours feed the cockatoos and have been disturbed by them also having a nibble at the walls of their house.  As such I am not all that keen when they visit us, like this fellow on our front fence this week But I needn't worry, their interest is in the pine cones in the trees that line the front of our house.  They are sure leaving a mess for me to clean up.

After the comments on a couple of last week's posts this is a case where old and abandoned has gone too far to be photogenic or recoverable. I took it on a recent Sunday drive out from our place at Clandulla.