This month, since #TreeSquares is over I decided to post to Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge (FOTD). Like Becky B, Cee offers us the freedom to post every day or when we feel like it. I made the mistake of classifying my trees as flowers for about half the month last month. So this month – no trees. (maybe). Cee’s FOTD challenge accepts:
- Single flowers
- Buds
- Multiple flowers
- Bouquet
- Flower fields
- Wildflowers
- Tree or bush blossoms
- Autumn leaves
- Spring leaves
- Decorative Cabbage
- Berries
- Still life
- Fake or Silk Flowers
As I swirled through my forested universe last month I came in touch again with my Australian trip. This month I’ll revisit only the flowers I photographed in Ballarat, Melbourne, Healesville Sanctuary and Queensland. Sometimes I might combine my post with another challenge I am doing, but I may just post one photo a day. I’ve never done that, so I’ll see how it goes.
August 8 Hen-Pecked Artichokes
Old Sovereign Hill in Ballarat, Australia is the equivalent to Sutter Creek in California teaching and celebrating the Gold Rush. The town was huge and completely in character. The completeness of the town’s presentation also reminded me of Colonial Williamsburg.
Around one of the old homes was a beautiful garden. This rooster enjoyed the freedom of roaming the garden. He particularly liked artichokes. The bee was not interested in sharing.
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15 responses to “FOTD #8: Hen-Pecked Australian Artichokes”
I never knew artichokes were purple – I may have to give them a second chance 🙂
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They are super ugly until they bloom. I had some in my yard that never passed the ugly stage. 🙂
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Bummer!
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Oh well. I wasn’t super great in the garden. In CA all you have to do is put stuff in the ground and add water, but I knew how to get things to rot, not produce, get completely eaten by the birds, rodents, bugs, and snails, wither. Some fruits and vegetables overproduced so you couldn’t get it all on time and you had squash all over your kitchen counter that was too big to use when the day before it was too small to harvest. Thank goodness for professional farmers.
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that’s why I never even tried… 🙂
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Smart. You saved a lot of money, but when it worked, it was great!
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I’m sure the the times it would work for me would be far outnumbered by the times it didn’t 🙂
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LOL, Jim. Your family would help you.
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that’s true.. but they would quickly realize how clueless I am in a garden!
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🙂 You have other good qualities, Jim. 🙂
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blathering, for one 🙂
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Love the vibrant purple against the subdued browns of the yard!
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Thanks, Jacquie. My favorite was the bird. 🙂
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Artichokes are amazing plants. I like the color hydrangea in your last photo too! 😀
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Thanks, Cee.
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