Hello there and welcome to the post where, if you don’t know me apart from blogland, I give away my age with the “Bill and Ben, Flowerpot Men” reference in the title.
You can see here with this scratchy you-tube clip that my childhood was lived in the days before colour was invented.
Actually, my age was driven home to me last week when I
read a blog post talking about how ‘Mom jeans’ are back in style. Imagine my
surprise when, instead of seeing well pressed jeans with centre leg creases in
the photo or the comfortable sort with elastic waists, there they were, Levi
501s – but they were fashionable only last decade… wait, no… oh, 20 years ago.
Dammit!
So what’s the point of all this blithering? Oh yes, the
photos. This is the well-known and oh so lovely arum lily which is a declared
weed here in Western Australia. So how can a gorgeous flower, best known for
church floral arrangements for goodness’ sake, be a weed? It “thrives on sandy soil with a periodic high
water table. A serious weed along creek lines and in wet areas of south western
Western Australia” (from this website). Here it is thriving in the
local swamp which
I note I wrote about at almost exactly the same time of year last year, mainly
I guess because there’s really nothing happening in my own garden, although it’s
full of the promise of spring.
I was going to try and get a little closer for some
better shots but I was afraid of snakes, I’m sorry to say. My dedication to
this blog doesn’t stretch to risking my life from death by snake bite. This makes
the perfect segue to the photo of the
very dead (good cat) highly venomous young dugite snake I found on my driveway
around about last April (for scale, those are my shoes in the shot).
Scary isn’t it? ‘Where’s its mother’ is my question!
May all your jeans be comfortable.
Sue
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