Bottle Brush

Sep. 21st, 2009 at 7:04 PM

I'm a bit brain-dead. Lots of stuff going on, been very busy... not all of it positive, but none of it terrible.
Because of this I can't put two thoughts together so have some pretty pictures instead.

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Taken on September 20, 2009. The bottle brush tree in our front yard is in full bloom. It's one of my favourite trees in the world right now!
In particular I enjoy the jaunty "mustache" that one bendy leaf gives me. But that's the kind of mind frame I'm in at the moment!

I love bottle brushes. Know who else loves bottle brushes?

Lori's love bottle brushes.

For being such a common and colourful parrot around here, they are surprisingly difficult to photograph. They are shy, and seem to have this uncanny ability to duck behind a branch at the very last second before you hit the shutter release.

Or a flower.

But if you have a bit of patience you can manage to get some semi-decent shots.

(Dear Readers: I have spent the past five minutes spinning this photo in all sorts of directions and I STILL can't figure out which way is up. I'm pretty sure this is not correct, but it looks alright, and none of the other directions look quite "right" either... I give up!)

Anyways...