With a spring in my step, my heart is expectant of great things. A gorgeous garden filled with sweet blooms does wonders for the soul.
So to brighten up your day (wherever you may be) I want to share with you the divine array of flowers I came across yesterday, while visiting Queens Park in Toowoomba, Australia.
Every year this inland city in the tropical state of Queensland, hosts an annual Carnival Of Flowers. Public parks, homes and the urban street scape come alive with vivid colours and the perfumery scents of all things flowers.
My visit to this region, was two weeks before the Carnival this year. Without the crowds to navigate and many of the garden beds already in bloom – it was a perfect way to wile away an afternoon.
Enjoy
Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity. - John Ruskin
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. - Jean Giraudoux
The first wild-flower of the year is like land after sea. - Thomas Wentworth
Until next time,
xx Isabella