Season of wildflowers

 I was going to write and say "happy spring", because it is now September, which is spring in Australia by decree. Then Twitter reminded me that at least Perth, on the other side of the country, was not Europe and should not be trying to follow European seasons. 

So I looked up the actual seasons on this side of the country, as they were watched by the aboriginal people for thousands of years, and found that there are seven annual seasons that match the changes in the land and weather here, and two seasons (flood and fire) that happen less regularly. You can read all about it here: https://www.visitvictoria.com/Things-to-do/Aboriginal-Victoria/Aboriginal-seasons-of-Victoria

Anyway, happy Petyan, or season of wildflowers. The native wattle trees are all in bloom now. Of course, while our local park does have many native trees (figs and eucalyptus mostly), for some reason it does not have wattle trees. 

During our one hour allowed outdoor time, still in the midst of stage four lockdown, Jonathan and I walked to a neighbouring park, keeping an eye out for wattle trees. 

And we found one! Only one. 

The flowers on the wattle tree we found were white. Often they are golden yellow. I have pictures of other wattle trees from my time, long long ago last year, on campus:

 Or in the far distant two-years-ago past, in regional Victoria:

You can see that they are spectacular.

Happy season of wildflowers, world.