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With our warm winter
The only white we will see
white puff balls — pure joy
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Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist
I began my working career as a reluctant potato peeler whilst waiting to commence my training as a student nurse. On completion I worked mainly in intensive care/coronary care; finishing my hospital career as clinical nurse educator in intensive care. A life changing period as a resort owner/manager on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu was followed by recovery time as a farmer at Bucca Wauka. Having discovered I was no farmer and vowing never again to own an animal bigger than myself I took on the Barrington General Store. Here we also ran a five star restaurant. Working the shop of a day 7am - 6pm followed by the restaurant until late was surprisingly more stressful than Tanna. On the sale we decided to retire and renovate our house with the help of a builder friend. Now believing we knew everything about building we set to constructing our own house. Just finished a coal mine decided to set up in our backyard. Definitely time to retire we moved to Queensland. I had been writing a manuscript for some time. In the desire to complete this I enrolled in a post grad certificate in creative Industries which I completed 2013. I followed this by doing a Master of Arts by research graduating in 2017. Now I live to write and write to live.
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Is this a type of Mimosa tree?
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I have absolutely no idea Joann. I’ll try and find out and when I do I’ll let you know. I have a feeling it is going to be an Australian native though.
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Joann someone has kindly told me that it is a CALLIANDRA HAEMATOCEPHALA ‘ALBA’ White Powder Puff. Cheers Irene
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It’s beautiful!
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🙂
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Beautiful Irene 🙂
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Thanks Irene
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CALLIANDRA HAEMATOCEPHALA ‘ALBA’ White Powder Puff.
I’ve never seen anything so beautiful. Simply stunning.
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Thank you for the name Christine. Someone asked me and I didn’t know. Yes it is stunning. 🙂
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Tell me again, you never have winter in the “real” sense of it? Snow and cold etc?
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Not where I live. Parts of Australia certainly do but we don’t even get the autumn fall with the lovely colours. This is what most people miss that are used to winter. I am sitting here 9.30 pm in my office with no heating but I do have a cardiagan on as the temperature is quite a cold 18.9 degrees centigrade. I don’t know what that is farenheit. The lowest it ever gets is around 10 degree overnight but the days are generally in the middle twenties. Perfect….. 😎
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How beautiful! Like giant puff balls! And I see that is their name!
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Funny as I didn’t know it at the time.
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Great photos. 😀
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Thanks Raewyn
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I like your white stuff way more than ours 🙂 It is really quite beautiful!
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