The wattle trees are coming in to bloom. They are Australian trees and they have glorious yellow displays in early spring. We have several dozen wattles scattered across our block.
Our proteas are also coming into bloom. They have the largest flowers I have ever seen. They are South African shrubs but they normally do well in Hawke's Bay. Some of the early blooms have been damaged by the odd frost but they still have a good display. They will be in bloom until Christmas...
The block next to ours down to the road has about 30 sheep in the paddocks. Since last weekend J says about 5 lambs have appeared including a set of twins.
The lake is still in flood.... and getting much wider as a lot of rain is falling today... and we saw 3 pairs of ducks down there... they are getting ready for spring too...
The rain has shown up the pine pollen which covers everything at this time of year in Hawke's Bay. There are 10's of thousands of hectares of pine forest to the west of us and in the early spring that pine pollen comes our way. The yellow sediment is showing up in puddles, on windows and on the car.
Yellow is the colour of spring....
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