Photo from Australia

[lorna]

This is a photo of  Jacaranda trees which my niece took for me on recent visit to Australia. She said they walked through an avenue of them when walking grandsons to school.

[lorna]

[1066]

what a fabulous colour Lorna  :)

[flowerlady]

Lovely pic Lorna  :D :D :D ... quite takes me back to Nairobi when I was a teenager !

... in the town there used to a road called Jacaranda Avenue ... bit like a french boulevarde with the main  drag in the middle, bordered with rows of trees and parking underneath them in the side roads  ;D ;D ;D

[Squash64]

They are beautiful!
I wonder if the locals take them for granted?

[AdeTheSpade]

I was in Sydney last month for the very first time, and fell in love with these trees too!  Tried to take a picture, but it's not as good as yours Lorna.  The colour of the flowers I thought was just like bluebells  :)

[gwynnethmary]

They're beautiful- I just love the way different places have their own particular "stars".

[lorna]

Thanks for comments. My nephew and wife will be emigrating next year (they have just received their visas) to be near their sons and 4 grandsons. One great nephew lives in Cranebrook and the other in Alexandria. My 87 year old sister will miss them so much. 2 years ago my nephew offered to pay my airfare and his Mum's if she would go (so that I would be company for her) she said NO, I nearly strangled her  ;D

[aussiedigger]

Thanks for a great picture Lorna - makes me homesick!