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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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Ah, must be bedtime… it’s Thursday night and Irene’s Floral Friday post is out 🙂
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LOL Sleep tight. 🙂
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So cool! I thought they were pine trees! The flowers are kind of spiky / feathery. What are they?
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I think they only look like that because of the flower spikes and there are so many of them you can’t see the leaves. I think the shape of the tree though doesn’t look like a conifer but then in my part of the world I don’t see too many of them so I could be wrong.
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Me, too. The tree looks like a conifer!
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Isn’t the shape wrong? I can see how the flowers give the illusion of a Christmas tree.
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That’s a profusion of blossoms! Do they cast a scent?
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These ones don’t have a perfume (that I can smell anyway) but the air is full of jasmine and port wine magnolias at the moment so it is just lovely to wander with my nose in the air.
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So fluffy, like a cotton wool tree 🙂
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It’s funny because walking it was ages before I realised the tree was in flower as we walked from the other direction we were looking more at the underside. I watched someone one day walk towards obviously taken with something in the tree so I turned back and looked. Wow – a cotton wool tree. 🙂
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I knew it, haha 🙂
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My first thought was that it was under water!! Beautiful tree and I like the greyed hues.
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I like the idea of it being an underwater tree. Beautiful – most definitely.
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Great photos of this tree. 😍
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Thanks Raewyn
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