Continuing on our walk through the park, we came upon a few trees like this one covered in yellow flowers. I have absolutely no idea what it is but I figure it is a native of some kind. Very pretty. I'll have to do some research & find out.
Further down the road from the spider's web of yesterday, is a colony of corellas. There are litterally hundreds of them that make a very loud screeching noise. I really feel for the humans which live close by, they are so loud. They are in every tree, on the road, on the walkway over the road, and even in the air flying. This one was watching me very closely to make sure I did not come too close. I have a few pics from yesterday's walk around the park which I will share over the next few days. So stay tuned to see what I have in store.
OK, OK, I know I said I may not be able to post much over the next little while, but I could not let this go past without sharing it. It has been another warm day & the storms have been predicted. No storms have eventuated as yet but the rain is around, and combined with the setting sun just a few minutes ago, Mother Nature has produced this beauty. The colours are not quite as vibrant in these pics as they were in reality, but I am sure you can all imagine. Rainbows have been rare lately , it has been so dry. This one was just so nice, be it seen through electrical wires.
A few weeks ago I repotted some of my hanging baskets with some geranium cuttings. Last week when I was putting them out in the rain for a drink, I noticed this strange plant growing in amongst the cuttings. Mmmm......................... now I wonder what this could be & how it got there. 
After an afternoon of thunderstorms & over an inch of welcome rain yesterday, this morning dawned very foggy but noisy. It wasn't the alarm that woke me, but these Corellas skreetching. They were feeding on my neighbour's pine tree.
This one decided that he wanted to dine alone and not share his food with anyone.
This morning dawned cloudy & by the time I went for my morning walk, it was raining lightly. So by the time I came home, guess what was crawling all over the garden. A member of my family has a habit of seeing if "snails can fly", and with a toss in the air the snails land on something hard like the road or driveway. Guess who has also picked up the habit, only to find out this morning that sometimes this just does not remove the snails pemanently.
There were lots of banksia trees along the walks that we did while we away. I noticed that there were different types, and the buds of the flowers were all slightly different. As I suspected there are lots of different types as I discovered here. There are different colours,
and differnt shapes.
I noticed the other day that a few of my orchids are putting up new shoots. I admit that I do not know a lot about growing orchids, but I am learning. Maybe they need repotting & splitting up. Some of the pots are becomming very crowded and could do with some TLC. The above pic is of my rock orchid from before, while the one below is a new shoot on a different type of orchid. 
The local orchid society has displays at our local shopping center every year & I gather infromation & new plants form them each time. This past year I was told that this orchid should put out new growth from part way up the stem, and now it finally has. The last few years it has only put out new shoots from the base, this year it has done both. I'll just watch & see what happens.
On my recent trip away, I came across this blue flower on one of my walks. I have absolutely no idea as to what it is & have been searching the net trying to find it. The closest I have come is a "Blue Grass Lily", or a Dwarf Morning Iris", but I really don't think it is either one these. I'll keep searching. If anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated, just to satisfy my curiosity.
This morning I thought I would show off my african violets. I have struggled for years to get these to flower in various spots around the house, but they really like my kitchen window sill. I used to be able to get them to flower all through autumn, winter & spring, but since we put in the air conditioner, they don't flower as much. It must take all the humidity out of the air that they need. I have about 18 pots of these, of varying colour, which are all beginning to bloom. We have had a few weeks break from using the air con so they are obviously happy at the moment. The weather is heating up, and as we are in summer now, the air con will start to go back on again shortly to cool things down, so I am tipping this happy little pot of colour will not last long. We will have to wait & see.
Check out this cute little fellow, a rainbow lorikeet feeding on the flowers of this palm. These little parrots can make a lot of noise when they want to too, especially if there are lots of them around. I quite often hear these birds on my morning walks, as they feed on the bottlebrush flowers that line the nature stips of our neighbourhood. I usually hear them before I see them, as they blend into the trees well with their colour. This pic was taken on my recent time away.
My babies are doing well & have not looked back from being removed from their black tubes & planted in something larger & more nourishing. They have been rained on a few times over the last few days, so hopefully this will help them to establish. 
Yesterday the weather forcast was for late showers & thunderstorms, so being the storm watcher that I am, I was checking the radar site to see if any were on their way. By 4pm there was a whole band of storms along the ranges, so hoping we would get our share of rain, I put all my wall pots out to get a drink. Doing so, I noticed one particular geranium looking a little sad, and on further inspection I found out why. There were at least five of these little creatures having a party on my plant. Needless to say the party was soon over. I might also add that the storms missed us totally.
This is one of my most favourite places to be, beside water, watching the sun either rise or set. This is a sunset over Wallis Lake at Forster, complete with pelicans. There are so many options of watching the sunsets here. Fishing in a boat on the lake, fishing off the wharf, sitting on the wharf eating icecream, walking along the wharf, eating dinner at one of the many restraunts along the wharf................... I'm sure you get the picture.
He watched me intently, I guess hoping for food. No chance! I have fallen into that trap before & then had them hanging off the house as well as pulling my garden to shreads. After a few minutes he was joined by more of his friends. 
Continuing our walk along the coast, right up to Bennett's Head to try & catch a better view of the whales, we came across these magpies. 
My own garden at home has become so overgown with weeds, this morning I took advantage of the cooler weather & tackled the bed underneath my frangipanni. Over an hour to clear all the weeds and half an otto bin later, I'm sure you can imagine how overgown it was. This is a pic of my first frangipanni for the summer, just opening this morning. No perfume yet, but in a few days there will be more flowers & I look forward to the perfume floating through my dining room window.
I found this beetle crawling all over my white roses yesterday. As usual, I am not sure if he is friend or foe. Though with those jagged edges to his antanea thingys I am sure he could do some damage.
I found these curl grubs yesterday sitting on the top of one of my pots. There were three of them just sitting on the top of all the leaf litter. There isn't anything in this particular pot, but what worries me is that I have a dwarf lemon tree in a large pot not too far away, and these grubs feed on roots.
I have been doing some research this morning & found out that these grubs are the larvae of beetles, which I find very interesting. As these ones were about 4cm long, I would like to see the beetle that they tun into. About an hour later they were no where to be seen. Possibly buried back into the soil in the pot, or maybe lunch for my favourite magpies.
