There is nothing quite like a bank of heather on a drizzly day to make the mind wander to Jane Austin and the Bronte sisters. This flower appears to be a style of Mediterranean heather, though the soft pinky-purple shade really does make me want to find a bonnet and sit in windows looking out across the Heath.
On this particular day, I was wandering around a beautiful botanical garden with my in-laws. We had just spent the weekend enjoying the Blue Mountains and were slowly working our way home to Sydney. Thankfully we had made sure to have our cameras prepared just before we happily lost ourselves amongst the flowers.
We also entertained ourselves by finding random upon finding the following - it seams that the staff had devised a special 'pirate' tour of the grounds that one could follow. I'm not precisely certain how pirates and flowers go together, but there you go. As we wandered from area to area we found little laminated sheets attached to short stakes in the ground, each marked with the classic skull and crossbones stamp and some kind of joke or riddle. These jokes were all completely groan worthy, but hilarious none the less.
Taken May 2010 - Mount Tomah Gardens, Blue Mountains, NSW
