Early Nancy

Early Nancy's Wurmbea dioica emerging from the ground.

Confirmation that it is now Spring.

Snow!

Snow falling on Black Mountain 12/08/15

Cooleman Ridge

Cootamundra Wattle Acacia baileyana in flower now. This Wattle is not originally from the Canberra area and is considered a weed.

Lower leaf stalks are swept back towards the branch

Broadleaf Cumbungi Typha orientalis giving away their seeds now.

View to the west from Cooleman Ridge

Drooping She-oak

Lots of flowering Drooping She-oak Allocasuarina verticillata on Mt Stromlo.  The female tree has small red flowers.

The female tree with new and older cones together.  Seeds are the main food of Glossy Black Cockatoos Calyptorhynchus lathami.

The male tree has golden flowers on small branches

The entire male tree has a rusty appearance when in flower. Looking west from Mt Stromlo to Brindabellas- Mt Coree on the right. 

Coombabah Lakelands

Native Violet Viola hederacea

Blue Murdannia Murdannia graminea

Coast Banksia Banksia integrifolia

Moreton Bay Ash Corymbia tessellaris lower bark

Moreton Bay Ash trunk

Mt Franklin

Woolly Grevillea Grevillea lanigera

Common Oxylobium or Common Shaggy-pea Oxylobium ellipticum

Hoary Sunray Leucochrysum albicans

Looking south along the regenerating Slalom Ski Run on Mt Franklin.  Mt Ginini is the peak centre-right.

Needle ice on the track

Blackwood

Curly seed pods of Blackwood Acacia melanoxylon showing the seeds hanging on their long colied red stalks. My favourite wattle.