29 July 2012

Australia's National Tree Day

Our 'tree day' today is Australia's largest community tree planting and nature care event, according to Speak for the Trees website. For school age children, around 2500 schools within Australia, will have already participated with planting seedling trees in their own school grounds on Friday 27th July, as part of Schools Tree Day.

..a wonderful angophora tree, down by the lake






and while I was standing there yesterday admiring this tree, a beautiful spot of colour alighted.  It's a galah (pronounce that gull-ah)



Quotation from Quotegarden.com

13 comments:

  1. TexWisGirl10:02 am

    wonderful quote card. :)

    love that gnarly looking tree!

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  2. Elizabeth Edwards11:35 am

    love the quote. those branches are too cool. all twisty turny looking & all. so great all the different birds you come in contact with. i rather enjoy it. fun! (:

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  3. Grandma Barb's This and That1:47 pm

    What a great tree. I like the last picture with the galah. Great quote card too.

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  4. John "By Stargoose And Hanglands"3:26 pm

    What a fine tree. And a wise quote to finish with.

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  5. Joop Zand5:12 pm

    Nice quote and good photo's.

    greetings, Joop

    Congrats with the golden olympic swimming medal 4 x 100 m ladies

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  6. Brian King6:02 pm

    You have some of the coolest trees I've ever seen! The galah bird is gorgeous!

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  7. Anonymous9:24 pm

    wundervoll die Bilder und der Spruch!
    Lieben Gruss Elke

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  8. Anni 10:06 pm

    National Tree Day....I like that concept. AND I love your photos.

    Please, consider linking up to the Bird D'Pot if you ever have a bird photo such as this you've shared.....the Bird D'Pot is a bird photo blog meme. EACH and EVERY Sunday. [USA]

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  9. Roy5:44 am

    Glorias indeed Carole.

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  10. Nadege,1:28 pm

    Great quote...We are lucky in Australia to have such wonderful and varied trees.

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  11. Kay7:48 pm

    I agree with Nadege, Australia has wonderful trees. That was one of the first thing I noticed when I was in Perth for the first time. I enjoyed your tree pictures. The quote is very well said.

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  12. Liz12:52 am

    Lovely tree shots, Carole!!

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  13. Laura11:34 am

    LOVE LOVE LOVE trees! And your photos are just gorgeous! Also, love that tree quote from Martin Luther! Thanks for enlightening me!

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