Observatory Hill pano || Sydney
Observatory Hill is a quiet park right in the middle of the Rocks/Miller Point in Sydney. There was a conjunction of Mars/Jupiter and Venus just after sunset. The conjunction was't visible as you can see the weather didn't cooperate. This pano looking north with the bridge to the right, then Luna Park on the water and the North Sydney business district (where I work) on the hill. The foreground is the counterpoint being the historic Rocks district. The Garrison Church (lower right), also known as Holy Trinity in Millers Point, Sydney was the first military church built in colonial Australia. It continues as an active Anglican church, now in a joint parish with St Philip's Church, part of the Diocese of Sydney. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrison_Church_(Sydney) To the left is the Sydney Harbour Control Tower. Not a lot of information online but with the creation of the Barangaroo district, it will be pulled down. Some suggestions were to make it a restaurant or bungee jumping site but to no avail. Some call it "The Pill" as it controls all the shipping berths in Sydney Harbour. The tower has been an 87-metre high landmark at Barangaroo since 1974, when it was installed to control berths in the harbour. It was closed in 2011 when vessel control services were moved to Port Botany. The tower will be replaced with a "interpretive historical display" focusing on maritime history and Millers Point www.smh.com.au/nsw/sydney-harbour-control-tower-at-barang... Some history of the park at www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/learn/sydneys-history/people-...
Castle Hill metro station
Historical Arthur Whitling Park, an attractive green entrance to the Sydney Metro Northwest Castle Hill Station, features a brand new children’s playground, skylight 'lanterns' and interpretive signage that pays tribute to the original railway line and the Australia Armed Services. Castle Hill Station (opened 2019) is an underground metro station, about 25 metres below ground level, located beneath Arthur Whitling Park, and opposite the Castle Towers Shopping Centre
Unexpected Opening
Seattle's skyline continues to evolve year after year...after year. This image was captured by means of sheer serendipity. I was on my way home from a photo assignment in the suburbs this same evening, and happened to drive through the Mount Baker neighborhood while en route. The violet clouds above and the silhouetted outline of the Olympic Mountains along the horizon created a pocket of open sky with a predominantly orange hue. The contrast was mesmerizing, so I had to stop Sydney (that's my car's name) and capture the moment before it was gone. Probably the most eye-catching item in the image is the brightly illuminated construction of the city's next skyscraper, The Mark, which will serve as both an office tower and luxury hotel. The Mark will be the 5th tallest building in Seattle upon completion later this year. TIA OFFICIAL WEBSITE / VUE ATYPIQUE / TIA TWITTER / TIA OFFICIAL BLOG / TIA INSTAGRAM
Gladesville Bridge (Sydney, Australia)
The Gladesville Bridge, completed in 1964, connects the suburbs of Gladesville, which is located on the northern bank of the Parramatta River, and Drummoyne, which is located on its southern and eastern sides. Europeans first settled in this part of Sydney soon after landfall at Sydney Cove, when Crown grants of thirty-acre lots were made in the vicinity of Gladesville in the 1790s to encourage agricultural pursuits to the area. Two of the first grantees were John Doody and Ann Benson. Gladesville is named for convict John Glade, who arrived to the colony in 1791. Glade prospered soon after his arrival, and by 1802 owned 60 acres in the district (encompassing earlier land grants to Doody and Benson). In 1836, Glade received an additional Crown grant of 50 acres between Glades Bay and Looking Glass Bay (including Gladesville Point). In the late 1830s, a limited number of settlers were attracted to the area by the employment opportunities associated with the establishment of the Tarban Creek Asylum in 1837. The future suburb of Gladesville remained isolated and rural until the middle of the nineteenth century. In 1856, William Whaley Billyard purchased and subdivided the early land grants to Doody, Benson and Glade into large urban building blocks; this subdivision was known as the Gladesville Estate. Billyard promoted land in the Gladesville Estate as suitable for 'gentlemen's residences' and sold blocks on which he had built villas to wealthier settlers of the colony of NSW. Billyard erected a wharf at Gladesville on the Parramatta River to provide better access to Sydney, and therefore to ensure the sale of land from his estate. This wharf was connected to the Great North Road (now Victoria Road) via Wharf Road, which was also built under instruction from Billyard. In 1881, a bridge was built across the Parramatta River between Drummoyne and Huntleys Point (Gladesville), thereby connecting Gladesville to the rest of Sydney. The first Gladesville Bridge was a 'two lane swing span iron bridge' to the south west of the present Gladesville Bridge. The introduction of tram services to the area in the 1880s meant that both Gladesville, and Drummoyne were increasingly populated from this time. Drummoyne lies on the eastern side of the Parramatta River from Gladesville, and was also an agricultural district in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. By 1806, land grants to members of the NSW Corps were cancelled and 1,500 acres of land was granted to surgeon John Harris; this land grant was known as Five Dock Farm and encompassed the future suburbs of Five Dock, Drummoyne, Chiswick and Abbotsford. Harris sold Five Dock Farm in 1836, and the following year the estate was subdivided for sale into 30- and 60-acre lots. In 1853, merchant William Wright purchased land in area, and named the suburb Drummoyne after his family home in Scotland. From the 1860s onwards, local residents agitated for Drummoyne to be connected to Sydney by direct road. By 1882, the Iron Cove bridge between Drummoyne and Rozelle had been completed, which encouraged further subdivision and settlement to the area (as did the Gladesville Bridge to the north). By the 1890s, Drummoyne was being serviced by regular ferry services and a public tram system, encouraging further suburban development. Five Dock and Drummoyne were amalgamated to form the Municipality of Drummoyne in 1902 (the Municipal district of Five Dock, including Drummoyne, had been incorporated in 1871). By the 1950s, traffic along the original (1881) Gladesville Bridge was becoming congested, commuters complaining of long delays in crossing the bridge. Clearly a new bridge was needed to alleviate traffic build up. In 1959, the Department of Main Roads (DMR) let the contract to build a 'six-lane high level concrete arch bridge over the Parramatta River' to the partnership of Reed & Mallik Ltd (Engineers, Salisbury, England) and Stuart Bros (Builders, Sydney, Australia). The new Gladesville Bridge was built to a design by the engineering firm of Messrs. G Maunsell & Partners (London, England). The Gladesville Bridge, described as one of the 'most spectacular of replacement bridges built in the Sydney', was officially opened on 2 October 1964 by Her Royal Highness Princess Marina of Kent and the Hon P D Hills MLA, Deputy Premier, Minister for Local Government and Minister for Highways. The bridge was opened to traffic on 24 October 1964. At the time of its construction, the Gladesville Bridge was the longest reinforced concrete arch span in the world. The new Gladesville Bridge was constructed as part of a program of works undertaken by the DMR in the 1960s to provide a series of freeway systems out of Sydney. The new bridge was to form part of a proposed North Western Freeway leading from Newcastle to the centre of Sydney via the inner city suburbs of Glebe and Annandale. It was one of three projected freeways leading out of the city. The North Western freeway was intended to replace the Five Bridges route (which also included Pyrmont Bridge, Glebe Island Bridge, Iron Cove Bridge and Fig Tree Bridge). By the early 1970s, protests about the route of the proposed freeway through some of Sydney's inner city suburbs (such as Glebe and Annandale) meant that the DMR's plan was never realised. Gladesville Bridge was one of three bridges constructed along this proposed route; the other bridges were the Tarban Creek and Fig Tree Bridges, and as such are vestiges of the DMR's unrealised plans. The DMR regularly inspected the bridge from the time of its completion (1964), until at least the early 1970s. DMR records indicate that divers inspected parts of the bridge exposed to water (namely the submerged abutments and thrust blocks) every 6 months from December 1965, to check for spalling in the reinforced concrete and for marine growth. It is unclear whether these inspections continue to be carried out, however, oral history testimony from engineers involved with its construction suggest that the bridge has not been rigorously maintained in recent times, with complaints about condition of the concrete (discolouration and spalling). The roadway of Gladesville Bridge was widened in the 1970s, in order to allow for greater traffic flow over the bridge, and along the heavily trafficked route of Victoria Road. The roadway of the bridge was increased from six lanes to eight, taking in some of the width of pedestrian walkways on either side. At the time of inspection in August 2004, the Gladesville Bridge was in sound structural condition. Source: New South Wales Heritage Register.
Hawkesbury sandstone
Hawkesbury sandstone at Freshwater Beach. The fern is the Japanese Holly Fern (Cyrtomium falcatum), a weed which populates most of the seaside areas of Sydney. The beach is the first beach north of the more famous beach at Manly. The sandstone is a relic from the triassic. Sedimentary deposits which originated in the western districts of New South Wales, from around the Broken Hill area. The river delta was a huge area, similar to the Nile and Ganges deltas of today. At the time, this entire area was close to the south pole. So say the scientists with the theory of continental drift. The rock is mostly quartz with varying degrees of iron, giving the colours of yellow, orange and red. Wind weathering produces interesting patterns. The rock breaks down to create a most infertile soil. This sandstone is the most often seen rock type in the Sydney area.
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Koala Park
West Pennant Hills - a suburb in the Hills District of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is sad to hear bad news about the park. When we visited in 2013 it was well kept. We did not see any neglect of animals. "The Koala Park Sanctuary was built in the 1920s and opened in October 1930 by the owner Noel Burnet. He established the sanctuary because he was concerned at the large number of koalas being killed for the fur trade, and hunting of the animal would ultimately lead to its extinction. He spent the remainder of his life dedicated to researching and preserving the animals habitat." The park has 10 acres and 24 animal species. In 2010 the park owners were accused of for neglect and abuse of animal's. A court hearing due on February 2, 2016 will determine the fate of the business and the animals it keeps. (Wikipedia)
Adelaide. Autumn afternoon in Belair National Park.
Belair Hawthorn Maze. Once the government built the Governor’s summer residence at Belair (1859) they were responsible for most of the area that the National Park covers today. Part of it was later controlled by the Woods and Forests Department at the suggestion of the SA Surveyor General George Goyder. Experiments were made from the 1870s onwards with small plantations of pine, European trees and Australian hardwoods in a 500 acre section. Whilst under that department’s control a European style hawthorn maze was planted near Belair station in 1886 just three years after the train service was open. So the maze was planted years before the park was declared. The maze has six concentric circles of hawthorn with an open centre. It is just visible on a rise near the station. With shallow soils and no supplementary water the maze almost died out before a local Blackwood medical doctor wrote about it, organised a rescue project and obtained a government grant to do so. Dr Barry Long then wrote an article on the maze for the Australian Garden History Society of which he is a member. It was put on the Register of the National Estate in 1975 as the only surviving colonial maze in Australia. The maze was re-opened in 1991. It now has a water system and is reviving well. 3. Belair National Park Entrance. When the park was declared the entrance from Belair Station and Sheoak Road was the main entrance to the park as almost all visitors came by train. But the origins of the park go back to the early days. A summer house for the governor was erected in 1859 and occupied from 1860 onwards until Marble Hill was completed in 1878. Government officials used the house after that time. Around 1880 the government tried to subdivide and sell the farm. This aroused public condemnation and a local Belair resident, Walter Gooch led a crusade to preserve the area, its fauna and flora. The railway brought visitors to the old government farm and from 1883 the Field Naturalists began to urge the creation of a national park. Gooch persisted and in 1891 the Belair National Park Act was passed. It was the second national park in Australia, after the Royal Park near Sydney and it was the fourth national Park in the world. The Belair Lodge House near Belair station, which is still occupied, was completed in 1893. Walter Gooch was made one of the first Commissioners of the National Park. Commissioners ran the park until 1972 when it was put under the control of the department of National Parks and Wildlife Service. Belair. The first white people to visit the area were absconders from the ship named Coromandel in 1837 and then Nicholas Foot started “squatting” on land here in 1839. Also in 1839 Governor Gawler selected 850 acres for a government farm at Belair and the squatter Foot was paid £300 compensation for the cottage he had built on the land. Other settlers eschewed the top of the ridge at Belair as the soils were thin, there was no permanent water on the crests and only the valley bottoms appealed to settlers. Governor Robe extended the government farm to 2,100 acres in 1848 for the production of hay and agistment for police horses. About this time some settlers took up land in the valleys and the Travellers Rest Inn at Belair opened to provide drinks for the teams going up to Coromandel Valley and beyond. The Inn closed in 1862. In fact the first titled land was granted to James Coutts in 1844 for the area that is now Glenalta. More settlers purchased land from 1849 when land was surveyed and put up for sale. There were enough settlers in the district for the opening of the first private school in 1861 by Maria Ludewigs. She had sixteen students. It is believed that the name of Belair was given to the district by Maria’s husband Gustav. He subdivided some of his land in 1861 and named it after his wife’s birthplace in the Martinique Islands.
Green entrance to Castle Hill metro station
Historical Arthur Whitling Park, an attractive green entrance to the Sydney Metro Northwest Castle Hill Station, features a brand new children’s playground, skylight 'lanterns' and interpretive signage that pays tribute to the original railway line and the Australia Armed Services. Castle Hill Station (opened 2019) is an underground metro station, about 25 metres below ground level, located beneath Arthur Whitling Park, and opposite the Castle Towers Shopping Centre
Belair. Australian magpie on the edge of the lake in Belair National Park.
Brief History of the Foundation of Belair. The first white people to visit the area were absconders from the ship named Coromandel in 1837 and then Nicholas Foot started “squatting” on land here in 1839. Also in 1839 Governor Gawler selected 850 acres for a government farm at Belair and the squatter Foot was paid £300 compensation for the cottage he had built on the land. Other settlers eschewed the top of the ridge at Belair as the soils were thin, there was no permanent water on the crests and only the valley bottoms appealed to settlers. Governor Robe extended the government farm to 2,100 acres in 1848 for the production of hay and agistment for police horses. About this time some settlers took up land in the valleys and the Travellers Rest Inn at Belair opened to provide drinks for the teams going up to Coromandel Valley and beyond. The Inn closed in 1862. In fact the first titled land was granted to James Coutts in 1844 for the area that is now Glenalta. More settlers purchased land from 1849 when land was surveyed and put up for sale. There were enough settlers in the district for the opening of the first private school in 1861 by Maria Ludewigs. She had sixteen students. It is believed that the name of Belair was given to the district by Maria’s husband Gustav who subdivided some of his land in 1861 and named it after his wife’s birthplace in the Martinique Islands. Another theory suggests Belair was named earlier in 1849 after Eugene Bellairs who was a government surveyor who lived in the area. Until the arrival of the railway line from Adelaide via four tunnels in 1883 Belair was a sleepy area of apple orchards and small dairy farms. With the convenience of the train service to Belair large houses for commuters and summer residences for the wealthy appeared along the ridge tops overlooking the city below. Adjacent areas like Glenalta were subdivided for suburban blocks in the early 1960s. . Belair Hawthorn Maze. Once the government built the Governor’s summer residence at Belair (1859) they were responsible for most of the area that the National Park covers today. Part of it was later controlled by the Woods and Forests Department at the suggestion of the SA Surveyor General George Goyder. Experiments were made from the 1870s onwards with small plantations of pine, European trees and Australian hardwoods in a 500 acre section. Whilst under that department’s control a European style hawthorn maze was planted near Belair station in 1886 just three years after the train service was open. So the maze was planted years before the park was declared. The maze has six concentric circles of hawthorn with an open centre. It is just visible on a rise near the station. With shallow soils and no supplementary water the maze almost died out before a local Blackwood medical doctor wrote about it, organised a rescue project and obtained a government grant to do so. Dr Barry Long then wrote an article on the maze for the Australian Garden History Society of which he is a member. It was put on the Register of the National Estate in 1975 as the only surviving colonial maze in Australia. The maze was re-opened in 1991. It now has a water system and is reviving well. Belair National Park Entrance. When the park was declared the entrance from Belair Station and Sheoak Road was the main entrance to the park as almost all visitors came by train. But the origins of the park go back to the early days. A summer house for the governor was erected in 1859 and occupied from 1860 onwards until Marble Hill was completed in 1878. Government officials used the house after that time. Around 1880 the government tried to subdivide and sell the farm. This aroused public condemnation and a local Belair resident, Walter Gooch led a crusade to preserve the area, its fauna and flora. The railway brought visitors to the old government farm and from 1883 the Field Naturalists began to urge the creation of a national park. Gooch persisted and in 1891 the Belair National Park Act was passed. It was the second national park in Australia, after the Royal Park near Sydney and it was the fourth national Park in the world. The Belair Lodge House near Belair station, which is still occupied, was completed in 1893. Walter Gooch was made one of the first Commissioners of the National Park. Commissioners ran the park until 1972 when it was put under the control of the department of National Parks and Wildlife Service.
Harrow. Historic village on the Glenelg River. Old weatherboard cottage with brick chimneys. From the 1860s.
Harrow. Explorer Major Thomas Mitchell and his party crossed the Glenelg River at the site of this town on 31st July 1836. The town has two memorials to him – a small pathetic one in the town and an impressive stone one about 3 kms outside of the town. The town emerged at a good crossing point on the Glenelg River and the district was originally known as Upper Glenelg. The pastoral lease estates were generally taken up in the early to mid-1840s and a bush inn was established here in the 1840s.The oldest pastoral lease property was Koot Norien taken out in 1840. Mail could be sent to residents there by 1849 but the town itself was not surveyed until 1852 one year after Apsley near Naracoorte had been surveyed. So Harrow is the second old town in the Western Districts of Victoria. The town was named after Harrow in England and a police outpost was established here in 1853. The town grew very slowly but the prosperous large pastoral estates were well established including heritage listed structures on properties:- such as the Clunie woolshed, Pine Hills homestead 1858, Kout Norien homestead 1855 and Kout Norien woolshed 1848. Mullagh Station was established in 1844 by Patrick Riley and Thomas Barrett and as was usual for the times Aboriginal workers on the station adopted the name Mullagh including one who served in the famous all Aboriginal cricket team that went to England to play the English in 1868 – Johnny Mullagh. There is a memorial to him in the town and the town museum focusses on him and that amazing first overseas Australian sporting event some 14 years before the first Ashes matches in England. It is the Harrow Discovery Centre and the Johnny Mullagh Interpretive Centre. Much of the history of Harrow can be seen in the buildings. On the way into the town is Gardner Park with remains of a thick stone stable wall built in the 1850s for Cobb and Co coaches. Above it is the charming wooden Kalan Cottage built much later in 1876 and only relocated to Gardner Park in recent years. Next to the wall is a rare surviving example of a 14 log high lockup or jail erected in the town around 1859. The first police presence in Harrow began in 1853. The lockup used locally available materials. Next to the park is the former Presbyterian Church built in red bricks in 1869. It is now the Uniting Church. It replaced an earlier 1860 built church on this spot then. Further along is the quite modern Anglican Church. All these major buildings were built up the hill and away from possible flooding of the Glenelg River. It was only built in 1933 and is just 87 years old. At the foot of the church a disused street has been used to display the local sense of humour with Harrow Bone Yard. It is not a real cemetery despite the headstones! In amongst the historic cottages in the main street is the Hermitage hotel on the right and the former Commercial Banking Company of Sydney on the left. It was built around 1880. The old pub on the right was built either in 1848 or 1854. It was renovated in the 1890s! Opposite it is the modern Discovery and Interpretive Centre. Right next door to that is the former Road Construction Authority Offices built in fine local stone in 1868. It later became the Kowree Shire Council Offices building (1872 to 1887) and is now the home of the local historical society. Further along the street on the left is the old wooden Post Office built in 1885 but the first postal services to Harrow began in 1849. Next to it on the left is the old wooden Courthouse built in 1877. It is now the RSL Club rooms. Thus you can see that despite being surveyed in 1852 most development of Harrow occurred after 1868. Further along the main street past some quaint and charming cottages is Kolmar House built as a general store and food store in 1881 for Rosenthal brothers. From this point onwards the cottages thin out but then some magnificent post and rail fencing along the edge of the town oval begins. At the end of the oval is the modern memorial to Johnny Mullagh in the Johnny Mullagh Memorial Park and across the river from this spot is the Catholic Church built around 1900. Town dwellers obviously crossed the Glenelg River to reach it as the route by road is a couple of kilometres long. Despite the wealthy pastoral and grazing properties around the town is has always been a small service centre. It once had a flourmill and a saddler etc but it has seldom had more than 300 people living in it.
Hunts Creek Falls
Nikon D800 | Nikon 16-35mm f/4 | B+W CPL | ND4 After a torrential rain overnight, I thought of driving to this falls which is 10 minutes from where I live at the Hills districts in North West Sydney.
Tumut. The now disused railway station. The branch line from Gundagai reached the town in 1903.
Tumut. The town nestles along the Tumut River, a tributary of the Murrumbidgee which it joins in Gundagai. It begins about 40 kms from Mt Kosciusko in Kosciusko National Park and it has three dam/reservoirs along it as part of the Snowy Mountains Scheme hydroelectric power generation system. Tumut has over 800 mm of rain yearly. Hamilton Hume discovered the Tumut River in 1824 and the first white squatter Benjamin Warby arrived in 1828 at Darbalara although he and the ones who followed him only became licensed leaseholders from 1839. They included George and William Shelley of Been (Tumut Plains) station. Shelley senior was a missionary and they are credited with making sure there were no Aboriginal deaths or massacres near Tumut. More settles arrived in the 1840s when land leasing was legal. A courthouse was established in 1845. The town was laid out in 1848 and a police constable was appointed. But by 1856 few buildings were more than mere slab huts. The first Post Office in 1849 operated from the Courthouse. Like Gundagai the original town site moved up the hill after the 1852 Tumut River floods. In 1860 thousands passed through the small town on their way to the goldfields at Kiandra (1859) in the Snowy Mountains and later to Adelong on the plains. Tumut emerged as a solid town. With gold came bushrangers and Ned Kelly’s brother operated in this district in the 1870s. By 1866 there were eleven hotels in the town and the town population was around 400; in 1887 Tumut became a municipality; and in 1903 the branch railway line from Gundagai reached the town. Dairying and forestry became major district industries in the 20th century and the Tumut River became a major site for hydroelectric power. Blowering Dam was built just above the town with Tumut 1, 2 and 3 power stations on the Tumut River. In autumn the Lombardy Poplars along the Tumut River display great colour. They were planted in 1861. More autumn colour can be found in the Avenue of Elms which leads to the racecourse, thus it is not surprising that Tumut established the Festival of the Falling Leaf in the 1950s. Tumut was one of the many sites considered for the National Capital by a Royal Commission but Canberra was finally selected for that. Tumut was selected by the House of Representatives in 1904 but then replaced by Bombala and then the Senate replaced it with Dalgety. But the NSW parliament refused to cede land around Dalgety so four years later after much politicking a site near Yass was finally approved. All places considered had to have good flat land, a good water supply and be further than 100 miles from Sydney.
Harrow on the Glenelg River. This old log lockup or gaol is 14 logs high. An amazing little structure. No longer in use as a gaol!
Harrow. Explorer Major Thomas Mitchell and his party crossed the Glenelg River at the site of this town on 31st July 1836. The town has two memorials to him – a small pathetic one in the town and an impressive stone one about 3 kms outside of the town. The town emerged at a good crossing point on the Glenelg River and the district was originally known as Upper Glenelg. The pastoral lease estates were generally taken up in the early to mid-1840s and a bush inn was established here in the 1840s.The oldest pastoral lease property was Koot Norien taken out in 1840. Mail could be sent to residents there by 1849 but the town itself was not surveyed until 1852 one year after Apsley near Naracoorte had been surveyed. So Harrow is the second old town in the Western Districts of Victoria. The town was named after Harrow in England and a police outpost was established here in 1853. The town grew very slowly but the prosperous large pastoral estates were well established including heritage listed structures on properties:- such as the Clunie woolshed, Pine Hills homestead 1858, Kout Norien homestead 1855 and Kout Norien woolshed 1848. Mullagh Station was established in 1844 by Patrick Riley and Thomas Barrett and as was usual for the times Aboriginal workers on the station adopted the name Mullagh including one who served in the famous all Aboriginal cricket team that went to England to play the English in 1868 – Johnny Mullagh. There is a memorial to him in the town and the town museum focusses on him and that amazing first overseas Australian sporting event some 14 years before the first Ashes matches in England. It is the Harrow Discovery Centre and the Johnny Mullagh Interpretive Centre. Much of the history of Harrow can be seen in the buildings. On the way into the town is Gardner Park with remains of a thick stone stable wall built in the 1850s for Cobb and Co coaches. Above it is the charming wooden Kalan Cottage built much later in 1876 and only relocated to Gardner Park in recent years. Next to the wall is a rare surviving example of a 14 log high lockup or jail erected in the town around 1859. The first police presence in Harrow began in 1853. The lockup used locally available materials. Next to the park is the former Presbyterian Church built in red bricks in 1869. It is now the Uniting Church. It replaced an earlier 1860 built church on this spot then. Further along is the quite modern Anglican Church. All these major buildings were built up the hill and away from possible flooding of the Glenelg River. It was only built in 1933 and is just 87 years old. At the foot of the church a disused street has been used to display the local sense of humour with Harrow Bone Yard. It is not a real cemetery despite the headstones! In amongst the historic cottages in the main street is the Hermitage hotel on the right and the former Commercial Banking Company of Sydney on the left. It was built around 1880. The old pub on the right was built either in 1848 or 1854. It was renovated in the 1890s! Opposite it is the modern Discovery and Interpretive Centre. Right next door to that is the former Road Construction Authority Offices built in fine local stone in 1868. It later became the Kowree Shire Council Offices building (1872 to 1887) and is now the home of the local historical society. Further along the street on the left is the old wooden Post Office built in 1885 but the first postal services to Harrow began in 1849. Next to it on the left is the old wooden Courthouse built in 1877. It is now the RSL Club rooms. Thus you can see that despite being surveyed in 1852 most development of Harrow occurred after 1868. Further along the main street past some quaint and charming cottages is Kolmar House built as a general store and food store in 1881 for Rosenthal brothers. From this point onwards the cottages thin out but then some magnificent post and rail fencing along the edge of the town oval begins. At the end of the oval is the modern memorial to Johnny Mullagh in the Johnny Mullagh Memorial Park and across the river from this spot is the Catholic Church built around 1900. Town dwellers obviously crossed the Glenelg River to reach it as the route by road is a couple of kilometres long. Despite the wealthy pastoral and grazing properties around the town is has always been a small service centre. It once had a flourmill and a saddler etc but it has seldom had more than 300 people living in it.
Harrow on the Glenelg River. Australia Felix country. Quaint old stone cottage from the 1860s or 1870s.
Harrow. Explorer Major Thomas Mitchell and his party crossed the Glenelg River at the site of this town on 31st July 1836. The town has two memorials to him – a small pathetic one in the town and an impressive stone one about 3 kms outside of the town. The town emerged at a good crossing point on the Glenelg River and the district was originally known as Upper Glenelg. The pastoral lease estates were generally taken up in the early to mid-1840s and a bush inn was established here in the 1840s.The oldest pastoral lease property was Koot Norien taken out in 1840. Mail could be sent to residents there by 1849 but the town itself was not surveyed until 1852 one year after Apsley near Naracoorte had been surveyed. So Harrow is the second old town in the Western Districts of Victoria. The town was named after Harrow in England and a police outpost was established here in 1853. The town grew very slowly but the prosperous large pastoral estates were well established including heritage listed structures on properties:- such as the Clunie woolshed, Pine Hills homestead 1858, Kout Norien homestead 1855 and Kout Norien woolshed 1848. Mullagh Station was established in 1844 by Patrick Riley and Thomas Barrett and as was usual for the times Aboriginal workers on the station adopted the name Mullagh including one who served in the famous all Aboriginal cricket team that went to England to play the English in 1868 – Johnny Mullagh. There is a memorial to him in the town and the town museum focusses on him and that amazing first overseas Australian sporting event some 14 years before the first Ashes matches in England. It is the Harrow Discovery Centre and the Johnny Mullagh Interpretive Centre. Much of the history of Harrow can be seen in the buildings. On the way into the town is Gardner Park with remains of a thick stone stable wall built in the 1850s for Cobb and Co coaches. Above it is the charming wooden Kalan Cottage built much later in 1876 and only relocated to Gardner Park in recent years. Next to the wall is a rare surviving example of a 14 log high lockup or jail erected in the town around 1859. The first police presence in Harrow began in 1853. The lockup used locally available materials. Next to the park is the former Presbyterian Church built in red bricks in 1869. It is now the Uniting Church. It replaced an earlier 1860 built church on this spot then. Further along is the quite modern Anglican Church. All these major buildings were built up the hill and away from possible flooding of the Glenelg River. It was only built in 1933 and is just 87 years old. At the foot of the church a disused street has been used to display the local sense of humour with Harrow Bone Yard. It is not a real cemetery despite the headstones! In amongst the historic cottages in the main street is the Hermitage hotel on the right and the former Commercial Banking Company of Sydney on the left. It was built around 1880. The old pub on the right was built either in 1848 or 1854. It was renovated in the 1890s! Opposite it is the modern Discovery and Interpretive Centre. Right next door to that is the former Road Construction Authority Offices built in fine local stone in 1868. It later became the Kowree Shire Council Offices building (1872 to 1887) and is now the home of the local historical society. Further along the street on the left is the old wooden Post Office built in 1885 but the first postal services to Harrow began in 1849. Next to it on the left is the old wooden Courthouse built in 1877. It is now the RSL Club rooms. Thus you can see that despite being surveyed in 1852 most development of Harrow occurred after 1868. Further along the main street past some quaint and charming cottages is Kolmar House built as a general store and food store in 1881 for Rosenthal brothers. From this point onwards the cottages thin out but then some magnificent post and rail fencing along the edge of the town oval begins. At the end of the oval is the modern memorial to Johnny Mullagh in the Johnny Mullagh Memorial Park and across the river from this spot is the Catholic Church built around 1900. Town dwellers obviously crossed the Glenelg River to reach it as the route by road is a couple of kilometres long. Despite the wealthy pastoral and grazing properties around the town is has always been a small service centre. It once had a flourmill and a saddler etc but it has seldom had more than 300 people living in it.
Tumut. Worte Cottage. Built around 1890 with red brick walls and yellow brick quoins, a bay window and very decorative barge boards on the gables. Very pretty.
Tumut. The town nestles along the Tumut River, a tributary of the Murrumbidgee which it joins in Gundagai. It begins about 40 kms from Mt Kosciusko in Kosciusko National Park and it has three dam/reservoirs along it as part of the Snowy Mountains Scheme hydroelectric power generation system. Tumut has over 800 mm of rain yearly. Hamilton Hume discovered the Tumut River in 1824 and the first white squatter Benjamin Warby arrived in 1828 at Darbalara although he and the ones who followed him only became licensed leaseholders from 1839. They included George and William Shelley of Been (Tumut Plains) station. Shelley senior was a missionary and they are credited with making sure there were no Aboriginal deaths or massacres near Tumut. More settles arrived in the 1840s when land leasing was legal. A courthouse was established in 1845. The town was laid out in 1848 and a police constable was appointed. But by 1856 few buildings were more than mere slab huts. The first Post Office in 1849 operated from the Courthouse. Like Gundagai the original town site moved up the hill after the 1852 Tumut River floods. In 1860 thousands passed through the small town on their way to the goldfields at Kiandra (1859) in the Snowy Mountains and later to Adelong on the plains. Tumut emerged as a solid town. With gold came bushrangers and Ned Kelly’s brother operated in this district in the 1870s. By 1866 there were eleven hotels in the town and the town population was around 400; in 1887 Tumut became a municipality; and in 1903 the branch railway line from Gundagai reached the town. Dairying and forestry became major district industries in the 20th century and the Tumut River became a major site for hydroelectric power. Blowering Dam was built just above the town with Tumut 1, 2 and 3 power stations on the Tumut River. In autumn the Lombardy Poplars along the Tumut River display great colour. They were planted in 1861. More autumn colour can be found in the Avenue of Elms which leads to the racecourse, thus it is not surprising that Tumut established the Festival of the Falling Leaf in the 1950s. Tumut was one of the many sites considered for the National Capital by a Royal Commission but Canberra was finally selected for that. Tumut was selected by the House of Representatives in 1904 but then replaced by Bombala and then the Senate replaced it with Dalgety. But the NSW parliament refused to cede land around Dalgety so four years later after much politicking a site near Yass was finally approved. All places considered had to have good flat land, a good water supply and be further than 100 miles from Sydney. Worte’s cottage. Polychromatic red brick with yellow brick quoins. Decorative fretwork on barge boards. Pretty bay window. Street facing gable. Built around 1890.
Dreaming Of A Sunset || YARRAMUNDI
This is another image taken at sunset over the Hawkesbury River at Yarramundi =========================================================== Yarramundi is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Yarramundi is located 69 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Hawkesbury. The suburb is named after Yarramundi, an Indigenous Australian of the Boorooberongal clan of the Darug people. He was a garadyi or 'doctor' and was called by Europeans 'the chief of the Richmond Tribe'. This area was previously known as Kearns Retreat.
Tumut. All Saints Anglican church and spire. Architect Edmund Blacket. Started 1875 completed 1878. Tower added 1881. Note dark bricks used for patterns on the walls.
Tumut. The town nestles along the Tumut River, a tributary of the Murrumbidgee which it joins in Gundagai. It begins about 40 kms from Mt Kosciusko in Kosciusko National Park and it has three dam/reservoirs along it as part of the Snowy Mountains Scheme hydroelectric power generation system. Tumut has over 800 mm of rain yearly. Hamilton Hume discovered the Tumut River in 1824 and the first white squatter Benjamin Warby arrived in 1828 at Darbalara although he and the ones who followed him only became licensed leaseholders from 1839. They included George and William Shelley of Been (Tumut Plains) station. Shelley senior was a missionary and they are credited with making sure there were no Aboriginal deaths or massacres near Tumut. More settles arrived in the 1840s when land leasing was legal. A courthouse was established in 1845. The town was laid out in 1848 and a police constable was appointed. But by 1856 few buildings were more than mere slab huts. The first Post Office in 1849 operated from the Courthouse. Like Gundagai the original town site moved up the hill after the 1852 Tumut River floods. In 1860 thousands passed through the small town on their way to the goldfields at Kiandra (1859) in the Snowy Mountains and later to Adelong on the plains. Tumut emerged as a solid town. With gold came bushrangers and Ned Kelly’s brother operated in this district in the 1870s. By 1866 there were eleven hotels in the town and the town population was around 400; in 1887 Tumut became a municipality; and in 1903 the branch railway line from Gundagai reached the town. Dairying and forestry became major district industries in the 20th century and the Tumut River became a major site for hydroelectric power. Blowering Dam was built just above the town with Tumut 1, 2 and 3 power stations on the Tumut River. In autumn the Lombardy Poplars along the Tumut River display great colour. They were planted in 1861. More autumn colour can be found in the Avenue of Elms which leads to the racecourse, thus it is not surprising that Tumut established the Festival of the Falling Leaf in the 1950s. Tumut was one of the many sites considered for the National Capital by a Royal Commission but Canberra was finally selected for that. Tumut was selected by the House of Representatives in 1904 but then replaced by Bombala and then the Senate replaced it with Dalgety. But the NSW parliament refused to cede land around Dalgety so four years later after much politicking a site near Yass was finally approved. All places considered had to have good flat land, a good water supply and be further than 100 miles from Sydney. the Anglican Church. A church barn was built in 1857 and this grand church was designed by architect Edmund Blacket who designed the Carcoar Church, the University of Sydney quadrangle etc. It was started in 1875 and completed in 1878. Note the dark brick work patterns beneath the quadruple façade windows. Tower completed in 1881. Have a look inside too.
Harrow. On the road to Balmoral. Grand 1936 stone cairn memorial to explorer Major Thomas Mitchell. He camped at Harrow in 1836. About 3 kms out of town and easy to miss. On the left hand side going towards Balmoral.
Harrow. Explorer Major Thomas Mitchell and his party crossed the Glenelg River at the site of this town on 31st July 1836. The town has two memorials to him – a small pathetic one in the town and an impressive stone one about 3 kms outside of the town. The town emerged at a good crossing point on the Glenelg River and the district was originally known as Upper Glenelg. The pastoral lease estates were generally taken up in the early to mid-1840s and a bush inn was established here in the 1840s.The oldest pastoral lease property was Koot Norien taken out in 1840. Mail could be sent to residents there by 1849 but the town itself was not surveyed until 1852 one year after Apsley near Naracoorte had been surveyed. So Harrow is the second old town in the Western Districts of Victoria. The town was named after Harrow in England and a police outpost was established here in 1853. The town grew very slowly but the prosperous large pastoral estates were well established including heritage listed structures on properties:- such as the Clunie woolshed, Pine Hills homestead 1858, Kout Norien homestead 1855 and Kout Norien woolshed 1848. Mullagh Station was established in 1844 by Patrick Riley and Thomas Barrett and as was usual for the times Aboriginal workers on the station adopted the name Mullagh including one who served in the famous all Aboriginal cricket team that went to England to play the English in 1868 – Johnny Mullagh. There is a memorial to him in the town and the town museum focusses on him and that amazing first overseas Australian sporting event some 14 years before the first Ashes matches in England. It is the Harrow Discovery Centre and the Johnny Mullagh Interpretive Centre. Much of the history of Harrow can be seen in the buildings. On the way into the town is Gardner Park with remains of a thick stone stable wall built in the 1850s for Cobb and Co coaches. Above it is the charming wooden Kalan Cottage built much later in 1876 and only relocated to Gardner Park in recent years. Next to the wall is a rare surviving example of a 14 log high lockup or jail erected in the town around 1859. The first police presence in Harrow began in 1853. The lockup used locally available materials. Next to the park is the former Presbyterian Church built in red bricks in 1869. It is now the Uniting Church. It replaced an earlier 1860 built church on this spot then. Further along is the quite modern Anglican Church. All these major buildings were built up the hill and away from possible flooding of the Glenelg River. It was only built in 1933 and is just 87 years old. At the foot of the church a disused street has been used to display the local sense of humour with Harrow Bone Yard. It is not a real cemetery despite the headstones! In amongst the historic cottages in the main street is the Hermitage hotel on the right and the former Commercial Banking Company of Sydney on the left. It was built around 1880. The old pub on the right was built either in 1848 or 1854. It was renovated in the 1890s! Opposite it is the modern Discovery and Interpretive Centre. Right next door to that is the former Road Construction Authority Offices built in fine local stone in 1868. It later became the Kowree Shire Council Offices building (1872 to 1887) and is now the home of the local historical society. Further along the street on the left is the old wooden Post Office built in 1885 but the first postal services to Harrow began in 1849. Next to it on the left is the old wooden Courthouse built in 1877. It is now the RSL Club rooms. Thus you can see that despite being surveyed in 1852 most development of Harrow occurred after 1868. Further along the main street past some quaint and charming cottages is Kolmar House built as a general store and food store in 1881 for Rosenthal brothers. From this point onwards the cottages thin out but then some magnificent post and rail fencing along the edge of the town oval begins. At the end of the oval is the modern memorial to Johnny Mullagh in the Johnny Mullagh Memorial Park and across the river from this spot is the Catholic Church built around 1900. Town dwellers obviously crossed the Glenelg River to reach it as the route by road is a couple of kilometres long. Despite the wealthy pastoral and grazing properties around the town is has always been a small service centre. It once had a flourmill and a saddler etc but it has seldom had more than 300 people living in it.
Hummingbird Checking Out Jacaranda Flower Buds
One of two Hummingbirds that were checking out new jacaranda flower stalks in my garden in Tucson, Arizona. I lost track after I counted over a dozen flower stalks. The buds are about ready to pop open and reveal fragrant flowers. Alexandria, Egypt is famous for its Jacaranda trees. I loved them on a long walkway on the grounds of the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel. I was at the Weizmann Institute for three years in the late sixties and early seventies. ____________________ Scientific classification Kingdom:Plantae Clade:Tracheophytes Clade:Angiosperms Clade:Eudicots Clade:Asterids Order:Lamiales Family:Bignoniaceae Genus:Jacaranda Species: J. mimosifolia Binomial name Jacaranda mimosifolia D.Don[1] Synonyms[2] Jacaranda chelonia Griseb. Jacaranda ovalifolia R.Br. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Here is the article in Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacaranda_mimosifolia Jacaranda mimosifolia is a sub-tropical tree native to south-central South America that has been widely planted elsewhere because of its attractive and long-lasting pale indigo flowers. It is also known as jacaranda, blue jacaranda, black poui, or as the fern tree. Older sources call it Jacaranda acutifolia, but it is nowadays more usually classified as Jacaranda mimosifolia. In scientific usage, the name "jacaranda" refers to the genus Jacaranda, which has many other members, but in horticultural and everyday usage, it nearly always means the blue jacaranda. _______________________ Scientific classification edit Kingdom:Plantae Clade:Tracheophytes Clade:Angiosperms Clade:Eudicots Clade:Asterids Order:Lamiales Family:Bignoniaceae Genus:Jacaranda Species: J. mimosifolia Binomial name Jacaranda mimosifolia D.Don[1] Synonyms[2] Jacaranda chelonia Griseb. Jacaranda ovalifolia R.Br. ____________________ Contents 1Habitat 2Appearance 3Wood 4Taxonomy 5Places with significant numbers of jacarandas 6Popular culture references 6.1Folklore 7Antimicrobial extracts 8See also 9References 10External links Habitat[edit] This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Jacaranda mimosifolia" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (January 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) The blue jacaranda has been cultivated in almost every part of the world where there is no risk of frost; established trees with the protection of hard wood can however tolerate brief spells of temperatures down to around −7 °C (19 °F).[3] In the US, 48 km (30 mi) east of Los Angeles where winter temperatures can dip to −12 °C (10 °F) for short several-hour periods, the mature tree survives with little or no visible damage. Even when young trees are damaged by a hard frost and suffer die back, they will often rebound from the roots and grow in a shrub-like, multi-stemmed form.[3] In the United States, the Jacaranda is grown very extensively in California, in southwestern Arizona, southeast Texas, and Florida.[4] In California, they are grown most extensively in Southern California but are commonly planted as far north as the San Francisco Bay Area and along the frost-free coastal regions of Northern California.[4][5] In California, flowering and growth will be stunted if grown directly on the coast, where a lack of heat combined with cool ocean winds discourages flowering.[3] In Europe, it is grown on the entire Mediterranean coast of Spain (it is very noticeable in the Valencian Community, the Balearic Islands and Andalusia with especially large specimens present in Valencia, Alicante and Seville, and usually with earlier flowering than in the rest of Europe), in the southern part of Portugal (very noticeable in Lisbon), southern Italy (in Naples and Cagliari it's quite easy to come across beautiful specimens), southern Greece (noticeable in Athens) and on the Islands of Malta and Cyprus.[citation needed] It was introduced to Cape Town by Baron von Ludwig in about 1829. It is regarded as an invasive species in parts of South Africa and Australia, the latter of which has had problems with the Blue Jacaranda preventing the growth of native species. In other parts of Africa, jacarandas are especially present in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, and Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe. Appearance[edit] The tree grows to a height of up to 20 m (66 ft).[6] Its bark is thin and grey-brown in colour, smooth when the tree is young though it eventually becomes finely scaly. The twigs are slender and slightly zigzag; they are a light reddish-brown in colour. The flowers are up to 5 cm (2.0 in) long, and are grouped in 30 cm (12 in) panicles. They appear in spring and early summer, and last for up to two months. They are followed by woody seed pods, about 5 cm (2.0 in) in diameter, which contain numerous flat, winged seeds. The Blue Jacaranda is cultivated even in areas where it rarely blooms, for the sake of its large compound leaves. These are up to 45 cm (18 in) long and bi-pinnately compound, with leaflets little more than 1 cm (0.39 in) long. There is a white form available from nurseries. The unusually shaped, tough pods, which are 5.1 to 7.6 cm (2 to 3 in) across, are often gathered, cleaned and used to decorate Christmas trees and dried arrangements. Wood The wood is pale grey to whitish, straight-grained, relatively soft and knot-free. It dries without difficulty and is often used in its green or wet state for turnery and bowl carving. Taxonomy[edit] The taxonomic status of the blue jacaranda is unsettled. ITIS regards the older name, Jacaranda acutifolia, as a synonym for J. mimosifolia. However, some modern taxonomists maintain the distinction between these two species, regarding them as geographically distinct: J. acutifolia is endemic to Peru, while J. mimosifolia is native to Bolivia and Argentina. If this distinction is made, cultivated forms should be treated as J. mimosifolia, since they are believed to derive from Argentine stock. Other synonyms for the Blue Jacaranda are Jacaranda chelonia and J. ovalifolia. The Blue Jacaranda belongs to the section Monolobos of the genus Jacaranda. Places with significant numbers of jacarandas[edit] This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Jacaranda mimosifolia" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (October 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Church surrounded by jacarandas in bloom, Wooroolin, Australia Pretoria in South Africa is popularly known as The Jacaranda City due to the enormous number of jacaranda trees planted as street trees and in parks and gardens. In flowering time the city appears blue/purple in colour when seen from the nearby hills because of all the jacaranda trees. Jacarandas are widely grown as ornamental trees in Australia, from Melbourne in the south to Cairns in the north. Jacarandas in bloom have become closely associated with Ipswich and South East Queensland. The Ipswich City Council have used jacarandas to line avenues, and commercial developments in some areas, particularly along the Bremer River have incorporated jacarandas into their landscape design. The trees are common in parks throughout the city, most notably in a long curved avenue in New Farm Park in Brisbane, in Goodna, and in private gardens. The jacaranda blooms in Queensland around October. The city of Grafton on the north coast of New South Wales, Australia, is also famous for its jacarandas. Each year in late October and early November, the city has a jacaranda festival[7] during the period of full bloom. A street parade, local public holiday and a series of events are held. A local public holiday sees the city's businesses perform street theatre for passersby and street stalls proliferate. A Jacaranda Queen and Jacaranda Princess are named at a formal ball. The Perth suburb of Applecross, Western Australia, has streets lined with jacaranda trees, and hosts a "Jacaranda Festival" each year in November. The festival is held in the Applecross Village district, and surrounding local businesses sell products and foods in aid of the local Rotary Club chapter. The tree canopies in some of Sydney's north shore and harbour suburbs in the east have a purple glow during late spring. The main street of the town of Red Cliffs, Victoria, Australia (part of the Calder Highway) was named Jacaranda Street in the original town plans of the early 1920s and jacaranda trees have since been planted to line this street. Jacarandas are also popular in the southern and central parts of Florida and the southwestern United States, notably in Phoenix, Arizona, and San Diego, California. Jacaranda can be found throughout most of Southern California, where they were imported by the horticulturalist Kate Sessions.[8] In California, jacarandas are known as the trees that bloom twice a year, although the fall bloom is generally not as striking as the spring bloom. Tampa, St. Petersburg, and other southern Florida cities are ribboned by purple flowers during peak bloom of April. Jacaranda trees are principally found in parks and interspersed along the avenues and streets. Jacarandas were introduced to Israel over 50 years ago, where they are in full bloom during May. They are popular and can be found in cities all over Israel. In many parts of the world, such as Mexico, Los Angeles, Spain, southern Portugal and Zimbabwe the blooming of this tree is welcomed as a sign of spring. Jacaranda can also be found in the South China Karst (a World Heritage site). The Chinese use the leaves to make a distinctive purple dye. Popular culture references[edit] Pretoria, the administrative capital of South Africa is popularly and poetically known as Jacaranda City or Jakarandastad in Afrikaans because of the large number of trees which turn the city blue when they flower in spring. The name Jakarandastad is frequently used in Afrikaans songs, such as in Staan Op by Kurt Darren. The jacaranda trees, far from their native Brazil, turn this city a brilliant purple each October. Water scarcity has South Africa trying to eradicate foreign species of plants and trees, including the Jacaranda. Acknowledging the tree's popularity with locals, the government has announced that it will not remove the trees, but has banned the planting of new jacarandas.[9] The Australian Christmas song Christmas Where The Gum Trees Grow makes reference to jacaranda trees, as the blooms are only seen in summer time—as the song explains, "When the bloom of the jacaranda tree is here, Christmas time is near".[10] The University of Queensland in Brisbane is particularly well known for its ornamental jacarandas, and a common maxim among students holds that the blooming of the jacarandas signals the time for serious study for end-of-year exams.[11] In Argentina, writer Alejandro Dolina, in his book Crónicas del Ángel Gris ("Chronicles of the Gray Angel"), tells the legend of a massive jacarandá tree planted in Plaza Flores (Flores Square) in Buenos Aires, which was able to whistle tango songs on demand. María Elena Walsh dedicated her Canción del Jacarandá song to the tree. Also Miguel Brascó's folk song Santafesino de veras mentions the aroma of jacarandá as a defining feature of the littoral Santa Fe Province (along with the willows growing by the rivers). Folklore[edit] The jacaranda at the University of Sydney quadrangle, its blooms were popularly associated with exam time.[12] The tree collapsed in October 2016.[13] Purple panic is a term for student stress during the period late spring and early summer used by students in south east Queensland. The purple refers to the colour of the flowers of Jacaranda trees which bloom at that time and have been extensively planted throughout that district. The panic refers to the need to be completing assignments and studying for final exams.[14] The Jacaranda when in bloom is also known as the exam tree.[14] Conversely, while also the time of year the Jacarandas bloom in Pretoria coinciding with the year-end exams at the University of Pretoria, legend has it there that if a flower from the Jacaranda tree drops on a student's head, the student will pass all their exams.[15][16] Antimicrobial extracts[edit] Water extracts using the dried powdered Jacaranda mimosifolia show higher antimicrobial action in vitro against Bacillus cereus and Escherichia coli than gentamicin sulfate[17] does. The extract also acts against Staphylococcus aureus in vitro.[17] See also[edit] iconTrees portal South Australian suburbs References[edit] ^ "Jacaranda mimosifolia". Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Agricultural Research Service (ARS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 2008-03-09. ^ The Plant List: A Working List of All Plant Species, retrieved 10 September 2016 ^ Jump up to: a b c Kathleen Norris Brenzel (2007). Sunset Western Garden Book. Sunset Publishing Group. p. 415. ^ Jump up to: a b Edward F. Gilman and Dennis G. Watson2 (November 1993). "Jacaranda Mimosifolia Fact Sheet" (PDF). hort.ifas.ufl.edu. Retrieved 2019-02-21. ^ Buzz Bertolero (2006-10-06). "Jacaranda trees growing in popularity in Bay Area". East Bay Times. Retrieved 2019-02-21. ^ Agroforestry Database 4.0 (Orwa et al. 2009) ^ "Jacaranda Festival Grafton". ^ Howser, Huell. "#15006 Jacaranda". California's Gold. Archived from the original on 2013-01-12. ^ [1] ^ lyricsplayground.com ^ UQ Centenary 2010 - Jacaranda and Sandstone ^ "Australians mourn tree that 'failed' university students". BBC News. 2016-10-31. Retrieved 2016-10-31. ^ "University community mourns jacaranda tree collapse". The University of Sydney. Retrieved 2016-11-06. ^ Jump up to: a b "Jacarandas signal 'purple panic'". The Chronicle. Retrieved 29 February 2016. ^ "It's Purple Paradise as Jacarandas Bloom & Exams start soon!". SA people NEWS. 2014-10-27. Retrieved 29 February 2016. ^ "The Jacaranda City". ShowMe South Africa. Retrieved 29 February 2016. ^ Jump up to: a b Rojas, Jhon J; Ochoa, Veronica J; Ocampo, Saula; Muñoz, John F (17 February 2006). "Screening for antimicrobial activity of ten medicinal plants used in Colombian folkloric medicine: A possible alternative in the treatment of non-nosocomial infections". Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 6: 2. doi:10.1186/1472-6882-6-2. PMC 1395329. PMID 16483385. External links[edit] Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jacaranda mimosifolia. Prado (1998). "Jacaranda mimosifolia". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1998. Retrieved 11 May 2006. Listed as Vulnerable (VU B1+2ac v2.3) Missouri Botanical Garden Dressler, S.; Schmidt, M. & Zizka, G. (2014). "Jacaranda mimosifolia". African plants – a Photo Guide. Frankfurt/Main: Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg. Goodna Jacaranda Festival at Evan Marginson Park, Goodna Jacaranda Festival, Grafton "Song of the Jacaranda" by Maria Elena Walsh and Palito Ortega, a popular Argentinean children song
Hills District Sunrise.
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Sunset from Observatory Hill || Sydney {Explore 67, 2015/09/09}
A quiet park right in the middle of the Rocks/Miller Point in Sydney. There was a conjunction of Mars/Jupiter and Venus just after sunset. The strange tower on the right was to be a foreground counterpart to the conjunction but as you can see the weather didn't cooperate with the clouds covering it all. To the right is the Sydney Harbour Control Tower. Not a lot of information online but with the creation of the Barangaroo district, it will be pulled down. Some suggestions were to make it a restaurant or bungee jumping site but to no avail. Some call it "The Pill" as it controls all the shipping berths in Sydney Harbour. The tower has been an 87-metre high landmark at Barangaroo since 1974, when it was installed to control berths in the harbour. It was closed in 2011 when vessel control services were moved to Port Botany. The tower will be replaced with a "interpretive historical display" focusing on maritime history and Millers Point www.smh.com.au/nsw/sydney-harbour-control-tower-at-barang... Some history of the park at www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/learn/sydneys-history/people-...
When The Sun Drops Down || NEPEAN RIVER
Facebook: www.facebook.com/rhyspopephotography Twitter: twitter.com/#!/rhyspope So many photos of this place, but at different times of day and at different times of the year, this place blooms new opportunity... Yarramundi is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Yarramundi is located 69 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Hawkesbury. The suburb is named after Yarramundi, an Indigenous Australian of the Boorooberongal clan of the Darug people. He was a garadyi or 'doctor' and was called by Europeans 'the chief of the Richmond Tribe'. This area was previously known as Kearns Retreat.
A Changed Landscape || HAT HILL || BLACKHEATH
Facebook: www.facebook.com/rhyspopephotography Twitter: twitter.com/#!/rhyspope This shot taken a few days after the fires had moved through the area in Blackheath in October. Blackheath is an Australian suburb located near the highest point of the Blue Mountains, between Katoomba and Mount Victoria in New South Wales. The town has an approximate altitude of 1,065 metres (3,494 ft) AHD and is located approximately 120 kilometres (75 mi) west north-west of the Sydney central business district, 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) north-west of Katoomba and approximately 30 kilometres (19 mi) south-east of Lithgow. At the 2011 Census, Blackheath had a population of 4,353 people. The area around Blackheath contains some of the most spectacular views in the Blue Mountains, including those over the Grose Valley from Evans Lookout and Govetts Leap in the east, and the lesser-known vista of the Megalong Valley from Hargraves Lookout in the west, past the tiny hamlet of Shipley.
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