Poets pimple

Hi all,
I'm here to tell you that I'm not a poets pimple but I'm not going to let that stop me having a go.

And after driving around this morning I was inspired to jot down these few lines of affection for my beloved tree the most beautiful Jacaranda.

I mean anything that rhymes with Veranda has to be good.

So here goes.


Look at all the purple trees
dropping all their flowers.
Falling down on the ground
getting thicker by the hour.

Nothing (to me) heralds the impending Summer
more than all the purple trees
dropping all their flowers
Falling down on the ground
getting thicker by the hour.

Some people call them messy
some people don't like their flowers.
But with their purple carpet on the ground
I just don't see how.

Cheers
Stewart

75th Jacaranda festival

National Tree Day

*

National Tree Day (Website)

National Tree Day, proudly sponsored by Toyota, is Australia's largest community tree-planting event. In it’s 14-year history more than 2 million volunteers have planted over 13 million native trees and shrubs!

This year’s National Tree Day is on Sunday 2 August with Schools Tree Day to be held on Friday 31 July (there are also additional insured dates for 2009). Planet Ark is currently seeking individuals to register and run local tree planting and bush regeneration sites.

Australian film and television actor and National Tree Day Ambassador, Jack Thompson, is urging all Australians to join Planet Ark’s tree-planting revolution and register as Site Coordinators.

"Planting and growing native trees and shrubs on Planet Ark’s National Tree Day is rewarding in so many ways," says Thompson. Read more

* EUCALYPTUS:(From Greek, eu + καλύπτω = "True Cap") is a diverse genus of trees (and a few shrubs), the members of which dominate the tree flora of Australia. There are more than 700 species of Eucalyptus, mostly native to Australia, with a very small number found in adjacent parts of New Guinea and Indonesia and one as far north as the Philippines.