Instead I'll show you a picture of my dragon fruit which flowered again last night. I hand pollinated this flower after the last one dropped off, but I can't show you the process as ...drum roll please... it was raining! Yep, there was 19mm in the rain gauge this morning, all lovely steady soaking stuff during the night. Lots of thunder rolling past today but nothing much more than the occaisonal drizzle, but it means that the rain that has already fallen will be soaking in instead of evaporating away in the heat. I can almost hear my garden sighing :-)
Anyway, the flower was starting to close already when I got out with the camera this morning, so it doesn't seem as big as the last one, but it was definitely very pretty.
Here's to finding beauty in small things.
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Where is the rain for the Victorians eh? I also feel guilty, I keep looking outside today and marvelling at how much greener my garden looks from last week and then I wish that it didn't look greener and the rain had moved to Vic, but no such luck.
That flower is gorgeous. How big is it?
I saw some dragon fruits at Woollies the other day, and thought of your efforts. I almost bought one just to see what they're like, but then Woollies fruits and vegetables are just a bad photocopy of the home grown stuff so I didn't bother. I'll wait until I can get a taste of the real thing!
The constant images and news does become overwhelming. I'm struggling with motivation this week for this and other reasons. I know what you mean about feeling guilty; I guess we just have to ride the wave of emotions as they are part of how we deal with trauma. Just like the survivors will, only its on a much greater and more personal scale for them.
Hi Christian,
Yeah, I'd send some rain their way if I could! The flower is about 30cm across when fully opened - huge.
Hi Darren,
I tried one from our local organic grocer before I bought the plant to grow and it was quite nice - I figured it would be heaps better home grown so that convinced me to plant one!
Hi Joanne,
Yes I know what you mean... It's all just so sad and it will be years before the people and the animals recover - how much of the native wildlife must have been lost too? I shudder at the thought.
Cheers, Julie
I think choosing to live life and appreciate it is a great legacy we can give to those who've been killed by this horrible tragedy. As heartless as it feels to move on, I know that is what I would want if something happened to me.
Congratulations of your 100,000th post anyway!
Like you, I'm overloaded. I have to keep walking away - and am both thankful and guilty that I can.
Isn't this rain gorgeous! Just looking at the rain stats on BOM - we had 10.8mm on Wednesday and 12.4mm yesterday.
My thoughts can turn to the garden again!
Oooh just looking at today - we've had 44mm since 9am yesterday! Yay!
Julie - you're funk of the other day matches mine of today! Where are MY dragon flowers???? (actually, I have some glossy gorgeous eggplants to satisfy me). Congrats on having so many visitors - it's certainly worth celebrating.
Lisa x
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