Last Friday the girls and I went to Fitzroy Garden with our American friends. I really love how easy it is to get into the city using the train, and this garden was just a short walk from Parliament station.
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| Alanna helping out with the obligatory sign picture |
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| Not "bathroom" or "restroom," they call it like it is! |
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| Don't know what this bird is, but he terrorized the girls who were trying to eat their lunch. |
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| Had to take at least one picture of flowers. (Please don't comment on the actual photography Doug, David or Ben!) |
One of the most popular attractions is the Fairy Tree. Copied from this website: From 1931 to May 1934 - Victoria's Centenary Year - Ola Cohn worked on the delightful likenesses of fairies, dwarfs, gnomes, a marvelous jackass, koalas, flying foxes and a host of typical Australian animals and birds. She used all the natural irregularities and curves to transform the tree trunk into a thing of beauty. The carvings were done years after the death of the tree and so the problem of the trunk's preservation presented a problem. In 1977, the trunk was extracted from the ground for chemical treatment and the removal of rotted wood, and during the process, a mummified brush tail possum over 40 years old was found perfectly preserved within the trunk. The tree was remounted on a concrete base to prolong its life.
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| Close-up of the fairy tree |
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| Dragon slide |
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