Out and About- Bike, Foot or Car

 

Most Tuesdays I head out for a walk with my friends Kerrie and Deb, both of whom I worked with at Southside Physio. Recently we enjoyed a trip to Queanbeyan where we walked along the river in both directions, visited the park, had a cuppa at the cafe by the river and then visited the Queanbeyan Art Society Gallery, it was a lovely morning and everything is so lovely and green.

Then I have some other friends who lead me astray on the bike. One Saturday we drove to Uriarra Crossing and then rode up Fairlight Road, to Mountain Creek Road, then along the Wee Jasper Yass Road to Taemas Bridge over the Murrumbidgee. It was quite a climb on the way back but we enjoyed our adventure.

Then a couple of weeks later Mary, Linda and I rode up to Gibraltar Falls and walked down to the lookout, which was a bit of an adventure in our bike shoes but worth the effort, the view of the falls was lovely and the sound of running water and creeks is a lovely sound.

The next outing this time was by car with Amy into the National Museum of Australia to see the Ancient Greeks Exhibition with items from the British Museum, it was well worth a visit.

Flowers in My Garden

 It is lovely watching the different flowers coming out in my garden, Enjoy walking around and checking out what is happening and clearing out some of those weeds. The side/front gate and fence has been put in, which means the dogs can wander throughout the back yard and warn us whenever anyone comes up the front drive. The last job to finish off all the work that began with the building of the granny flat.

This is my first dahlia, looks like a few more are on the way.

Not sure what this yellow plants is but it is flowering beautifully. I planted it last year and it died off over winter then just came back this summer with lots of flowers.

I keep dividing and replanting these rain lilies and I love the creamy flower they have and they make great edging.

I planted three lots of sunflowers seeds before I could get them to germinate.

My Lady O Grevilla is flowering and it is such a pretty grevilia. 

I have never had much luck with Kangaroo Paws and don't have many full sun spots left in my garden. I picked up this smaller kangaroo paw at Bunnings recently, says they are more drought and frost hardy. I figured if I planted it in a pot and moved it in winter I might have more luck. It has a little flower beginning to emerge.

Amy had a whole lot of flower seeds so we made up a mix and scattered them in the garden bed and we have some flowers- who knows what they are but it is lovely to see some results.