botanical gardens

I am pretty sure I have shared my goal of visiting the botanical gardens every school holidays in a calendar year - therefore experiencing it during every season? To date it hasn't happened. While we have now visited in every season, we haven't managed it in a calendar year. (Need to check out if we have done in a financial year?)

I even have the scrapbooking embellishments for my layout for when it happens! Does that make me super organised or sad?

So, you may wonder why this is such a thing with me? Well 'the mountain' is really quite close to home, but they have seasons up there. Here were we live we really only have varying degrees of summer.

We started with a picnic lunch at a park near the gardens. We took the soccer ball as well to get some of the energy out of the system so I could take lots of photos at the gardens :)

It worked! I took LOTS (and lots) of photos. While it is not at it's best in the winter, it is still a very pretty place to be. Here is a selection.....

Historical Society

my snapshots in june has sorta fallen by the way side. Life has just been too busy. This past week I had the opportunity to go on a school excusion with Miss Paradise's class to the Historical Society up the mountain. It was really interesting!

can you spot which one is the dummy? lol....

Jodie

Mt Tamborine Botanical Gardens in Winter

I have always wanted to go up to the Botanical Gardens each season during a calendar year. Haven't managed it yet. But on Sunday we got up there for the first time ever in winter. Not a lot in flower BUT it is still beautiful. There were lots of "scarecrows". The girls and their friend where not too sure about them though.....

Jodie

Family Day.....

My three wise monkeys and I went up the mountain today for a change of scene. Chilly up there! But lovely to walk through the rain forest.

The sun warmed us as it shone through breaks in the canopy of trees.

We saw some bush turkeys, but they were too quick for me. These old logs of course stayed nice and still!! (wink)

Jodie

Mt Tamborine, Botanical Gardens and More

Well our camping trip that delayed Scatterdays never happened. The weather here lately has just been too bad to attempt any time in the great outdoors. It wasn't a problem here or where we had planned to camp, but the roads in between have gone under in all the rain we have had.

Plan B. The girls had a serious case of cabin fever, so we drove up Mt Tamborine and found ourselves at the Botanical Gardens. We took our camping lunch with us - Chicken Kebabs, Salad and wraps, as well as the little gas burner and fry pan, and we had a great time.

The rain had done wonders for the gardens, the flowers were in bloom, the grass green and the little creeks flowing well.

After our lunch, we drove on and Russ and the girls had an ice cream where I got the water fall shots.

Jodie