Plump, fleshy, green leaves of Pig Face and the spikey, silvery, dryness of Spinifex. I love adaptation to harsh conditions, in all its varied forms.I'm sipping black coffee, while watching the rain falling from safe inside my warm dwelling. I'm very tempted to go for a long walk in the gentle pitter patter and find myself soaked to the bone. I'll come home shivering, run a hot bath and soak myself warm. The temptation is too much.
Labels: colonising beach plants, newport beach, pig face, spinifex, spring rain
8 Comments:
Ahhh... the 'true' spinifix. All those mob in the outback have been ripping us off for YEARS... there'll be a public outcry - the tourists will go spare!!!
Ahhh what the heck - it's only grass anyway! ;-)
Pigface can have amazing flowers eh?! And to have a burst of colour like that contrasting with the sand and (over here) sandune environment is a pretty coll thing to see.
Many a beach fire was started hoarding dry spinifix seedheads! Ah the memories! lol ;-)
Beach fires are great... wish we could still do that around these parts. Yes, I love the brightness of Pig Face flowers and the sweet, saltiness of the fruit.
How goes the frogs?
ooooh....PRICKly
did i just say that?
Rich, you know me so well ;)
and after reading that blissful piece of writing i have to go to work. dammit.
Double drat!
Back in Perth A... the frogs are spared for at least a week. They get the run of the house and must have themselves a fat time, as they leave little frog 'surprises' everywhere for us me when I get back, lol!
I keep getting pictures of one hell of a frog party being thrown in the house when I' back down this way! The little buggers... still though - hardly an insect bothers me in the house. I'd shake their little webbed feet if I could... just not at that early hour in the morning dammit!!!
;-)
Well B, at least there is an upside... insect control without chemicals, that's cool.
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