Family, Travel

A WILDFLOWER FEAST

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Dad climbing the embankment to take photographs of wildflowers

Purple hardengergia climbing up a tree trunk, Taradale, Victoria, Australia

Wandering through the wildflowers in Nadinoo Fleur's Penna Dress, Taradale, Victoria, Australia

Lichen on dead branches, Taradale, Victoria, Australia

White fluffy wildflowers of Beard Heath, Taradale, Victoria, Australia

Raspberry muffins for afternoon tea, Taradale, Victoria, Australia

Fairy Wax-Flower with pink buds on the side of the road, Taradale, Victoria, Australia

Watching the trees, Taradale, Victoria, Australia

At one point my dad disappeared into the bush only to reappear nimbly balancing on a steep roadside embankment taking a photo of a prize wildflower find. We must have been quite a sight to see scrambling through the bush, ducking down to take photos noses to the ground. Pretty purple hardenbergia rambled cheekily over trunks and tin cans alike.

My mum’s lovely berry muffins were a delicious sweet finish to our picnic lunch.


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Family, Recipes, Travel

FATHER’S DAY ADVENTURES

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Dad going for a bush walk, Taradale, Victoria, Australia

Old glass bottle stuck onto a tree, Taradale, Victoria, Australia

Prickly Wax Flower (Philotheca pungens), Taradale, Victoria, Australia

Rusted, lichen covered metal, Taradale, Victoria, Australia

Pink bells (tetratheca ciliata), Taradale, Victoria, Australia

Rusted metal and purple tetratheca flowers

Dylan bush walking, Taradale, Victoria, Australia

Rusted cans on the bush floor, Taradale, Victoria, Australia
Mushroom and parsley quiche, Taradale, Victoria, Australia

Salad with beetroot leaves and blue borage flowers, Taradale, Victoria, Australia

Mum looking at wildflowers, Taradale, Victoria, Australia

 

Last Sunday we took my lovely parents on a day trip to the country. The last time we had gone through Taradale we drove past this little bush glade and though it would be a sweet place to have a little picnic of quiche and tea brewed in Dylan’s trusty bush buddy stove. When we stopped we hadn’t anticipated such yelps of delight from the back seat. My parents are members of the Australian Native Plants Society you see and we had inadvertently taken them to a place brimming with pretties for them to discover. It was much like a treasure hunt and the mood was contagious, I soon found myself trying to find different flowers species to report back.

On venturing deeper into the bush we found an odd assortment of burnt and rusted tin cans, shredded rags hanging from trees, old twisted straps of metal and an old vacuum cleaner. Iwas a little bit eerie and unsettling and I was glad we weren’t caught out there on a dark and stormy night.

 

Mushroom and Spinach Quiche Recipe

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