This week, Ailsa at Where’s My Backpack has nominated the colour Purple as the travel theme for the week. As purple is one of my favourite colours, I expected to find a plethora of exotic purple images amongst the sari draped women of India or in the temples of Myanmar. Other than a few purple clad young fairies and tu-tued ballerinas who come to visit, I found very little in my digital files.
So, with my favourite travel accessory, the purple Olympus Pen camera, I ventured outdoors into the cold morning fog of Melbourne winter. The only colour in my garden at present is Purple. An Australian native plant, hardenbergia flowers in winter for around a month and can often be found growing wild in the bush, a startling thunderbolt of colour amongst the grey green of the eucalyptus.
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That hardenbergia is glorious. Let’s call these quality rather than quantity of purple photos!
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The hardenbergia makes such a wonderful addition to any garden and is so hardy, it can withstand frost or fierce heat.
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Absolutely gorgeous!
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My daughter would love that purple camera. Great photos for this challenge!
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Ooh a purple camera too! How on theme! 😀
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I know: its a bit anal really, purple camera indeed.
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The blog world works in wonderful ways… I caught a glimpse of your hardenbergia pic during my very early Sunday morning blog browsing so my eyes were open to the real thing hanging over a fence on the way home from a wander to the shops; a sprig came home with me to brighten up a very dreary Sydney Sunday 🙂
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They are irrestistable – a sprig of purple in a small vase can work wonders too. Dreary is Sydney- extra gloomy in Melbourne.
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