Purple

After arriving in Australia, I got in a taxi to get to the apartment. The first thing I noticed were purple trees everywhere. No leaves, just purple flowers and they were beautiful! I wanted to get a photo (of course) to share and every time I took a photo, the tree looked washed out, and mangy - not like they looked as we were zooming by in the taxi.

Gary and I on Saturday went to take photos and again I took photos of the purple tree, but still - mangy and scraggly. Then Gary told me about a purple tree just down the cliff from the church - so what did I do? Yeah I skipped Sunday School and took a hike to the elusive purple tree. What we had been noticing was that there were a bunch of purple flowers on the ground beneath the purple trees, thus indicating that they had been lush with purple flowers, but that time was slipping away and I might not get my photo.

From above the tree looked good enough, but I had been fooled before. But off I went down all the steps to the bottom in my Sunday finest and heels to take a picture of a freaking tree. Once I got there, I was impressed - it was more lush than any others I had seen, but still not perfect:

I did notice that if I pointed my camera at a particular lush part of the tree with the white clouds in the background, I got a sampling of what they looked like when driving by and probably what they looked like before half of their blossoms fell off:

Here is one that is scraggly that was at the top, but I liked the sky and clouds behind it and the pesky bird that kept mewling at me (the birds sound like cats over here - well, one type anyway - so they meow):

So - my elusive purple tree. Not great, but shows how pretty they are and were with all their blossoms on. They are everywhere so Brisbane is awash in purple right now.