There are more signs of spring showing up in the park and on the streets around our house. Rose plants are full of buds about to burst forward. Not long before I'll be posting our nearby roses and then we'll be off to the Botanic Gardens for the early blooms.
What happens if you drop into two liquor stores after Friday evening Happy Hour with the lads. It is a bad idea for sure. Puts some severe hurt on your pocketbook.
On CJ's circumnavigation ride, while passing through the Adelaide Botanic Park, not to be confused with the adjacent Adelaide Botanic Gardens, there is a group of massive strangler figs. They are in the Botanic Gardens as well. Check out the base on the tree middle-right. It is huge. They make riding this sidewalk difficult in a skinny wheel road bike. The strangler roots have buckled the pavement in many places.
I cannot remember the last time Carol made spaghetti in white clam sauce. Having spied lovely baby clams, she was moved to give it a go.
I post about bins because I can; and it is presently the neighborhood's entertainment. The trucks pass by to empty the bins in the afternoon. In the days before the run of bin pinching, we'd pay no attention to them and retrieve them when we returned from somewhere or whenever the spirit moved us.
It does not seem possible that in the three years we lived in Adelaide and in the nearly year of vacations we spent here we never visited the Adelaide Zoo until now. We have joined as members since by a third visit, the membership is paid; and it includes the Minardo Zoo and other facilities. We intend to visit Minardo where they have just had a baby rhino born.
Obe-wan orangatan was a hoot. It came down the hill with this sheet over it looking like a creature from Star Wars. It threw it off, climbed a set of stairs and tried to get the attention of an attendant. When it failed, it walked back up the hill, putting the sheet back on.
In addition to the animals, zoo staff do a fantastic job keeping the gardens looking nice.
Decorating the entrance foyer is taking a different route this time. First Bronwyn delivers a small table and four chairs. Next she brings a small planter for Carol's herb garden.
James and Jackie offer three pots they used to hide a replanting project on their entrance foyer. Two are now on the patio and the third is on the second floor balcony.
When Bronwyn delivers another two huge planters, Carol has a project to fill them.
Returning home from the nearby market, she asked a woman where she got her plants. There is a sale in the gardens of a historic building. There is a community garden. Folks pay for membership. Our neighbor Sia, is one of the organizers.
From time to time they sell off excess plants. Trolley in hand Carol goes and returns with a large plant. A while later, Sia's husband and one of CJ's cricket buddies. delivers the rest of the order.
CJ has returned from a long bike ride. Carol has been planting for hours. We have chairs on the entrance patio. We call it a day and have a drink. During the more than two years we lived here, we never sat and had a drink on this patio. We always used the roof. This is a first. Drinks in the foyer will be repeated.
