Around town and my garden....

We have some lovely parks and gardens in our town. Lots of green lawns which create an air of spaciousness.

This area is behind our Civics & Arts Centre - a good spot for tourists to pull up in their cars and with caravans to sit and have lunch. There are shady trees nearby and park benches.
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This is our Cross of Sacrifice where the Anzac Day Dawn Service is held. The crowd numbers are growing each year for the service and for the march which is held later in the morning. It is a chilling thing to listen to the Last Post being played on the bugle.
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We have a very talented sculptor in our midst. He has opened Ant's Redgum Gallery and he sculpts pieces from redgum timber. This eagle is all from the one piece of redgum - amazing. I drive past the gallery every day and have watched this chunk of wood being transformed into the work of art you see here. He started off using a chain saw to cut the basic shape them went on to chisel and sand the finer details.
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The attention to detail is fantastic. I am yet to visit his gallery but I must do it soon.
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Late afternoon in my poor neglected garden on Saturday.
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Oh dear! Sadly neglected, these standard roses have now been pruned back and most of the weeds have been pulled. Because this bed is watered over summer by our sprinkler system with bore water the weeds grow like crazy, the roses get watered all over and don't do so well and there is kikuyu grass (which has long runners) growing in amongst everything. It is nearly impossible to get rid of. I'd like to gut this bed totally and plant low growing carpet roses and some other shrubs after spraying the grass and renewing the soil and bark. Maybe come spring time. For now, I've pulled the weeds so it does look neater.
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A lone rose among the thorns.
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The mornings are getting frosty but I am still enjoying my early morning walks. I've taken to the town streets and it's quite interesting peering into peoples gardens to see what they have growing.
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Cheers - Joolz