TheBanyanTree: Spring has hit Sydney

[Sally Larwood]

Ain't spring grand?  The wattle all around us here at the resort at Numurkah is glorious and yesterday my nose detected a beautiful scent. The daphne's out. We now have a sprig in a glass reminding us that spring is here. 
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> On 23 Aug 2017, at 07:23, peter macinnis <petermacinnis at ozemail.com.au> wrote:
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> The weather has been saying it for months, the flowers have been out for six weeks. Yesterday, up at the nursery, crows were waddling around, picking up sticks and flying up into trees.
> 
> I was dropping smaller dead trees nearby, so I gathered up some suitable twigs from the upper ends of the trees and laid them down on grass near the play area of the Montessori pre-school, just across the road, so the children can see a sign of spring.
> 
> This morning, the rainbow lorikeets were in the Grevillea next to our balcony. When the sun comes around the corner, I will start snapping. Meanwhile, here's a shot from last year.
> 
> Today, I am listening to the ms of the latest monster, 400,000 words of science backgrounders, distilled into mp3 files. I will be out on the balcony, listening to that, to music from my Working playlist, and to the lorikeets.
> 
> p1
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> Peter Macinnis         petermacinnis at ozemail.com.au
> manufacturer of automated parakeet flensing systems
> at Manly NSW, the birthplace of Australian surfing
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