Today dawned cloudy and chilly and a bit rainy. I did some comic work, but also took some time to continue a photography project I started back on Monday.
There’s a street in a suburb not far from me which is lined with jacaranda trees. Every year in late spring, basically November, the trees flower, and the location becomes a fantastic wonderland of purple flowers creating a tunnel around the street. In the past few years it’s become Instagram famous and has attracted large numbers of tourists. They want to take photos standing on the street – which of course is a hazard as the locals use it to drive on. This has become such an issue that the council has stuck warning signs on the footpaths:
Anyway, jacaranda flowering season is just in the very earliest stages right now. And given COVID, there are no tourists in Sydney at the moment. So this is the perfect opportunity to take photos of the flowering without the photos being full of tourists.
My plan is to go down to the street at least a couple of times a week, to make sure I’m keeping track of the flowering progress. And so this way I can be sure to catch and capture it at the peak. During the peak, I might try to go down there every day and take photos.
I went down on Monday, and the street looked like this:
It doesn’t look like much yet. There’s just a faint hint of the earliest purple flower buds coming out. I went down again today:
Not much change. But stay tuned as I keep this up, because this street is going to transform into something absolutely magical within the next few weeks.
New content today:
Jacarandas are naturalized in my home state of Florida. They are beautiful, aren’t they?
Oh yes, I love them. One of the reasons why November is my favourite month in Sydney.