Mosaic Monday ... on a gloomy dreary Autumn day!

The weekend was a wash-out!  The sun seems to have gone on holiday ... possibly taking that long-awaited overseas trip!  We're left with bleak and cheerless at the moment. 

Sunrises ... lacking in liveliness!

Flowers ... drowned and dreary!

Can you tell the weather is making me glum?    Rain, rain, go away!  Today!  OK!

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It's Flaunt Your Flowers Friday ... at the start of our mid-Autumn month.

It's official ... the rainfall total for last month, our beginning of Autumn month, hit an all-time record.  Ever since weather records began, we've never had so much liquid sunshine for the month of March.  It rained for around 23 days of that month and we received 655 mm or around 26 inches!

It's been such a wet start to the year so far and it hasn't let up ... we are pining for real sunshine here!  My great survivors and surprises through this monsoonal rainy season have included ....

My unknown Orchid out in the Shadehouse Garden which has thrown out a wonderful spray of flowers.

The Neomarica longifolia or Yellow Walking Iris has continued to put on its' show out in the Shadehouse Garden all through these rainy months.

Salvia splendens have soldiered on regardless of all the weather extremes we've experienced.

Finally there's a flower spike on my Salvia madrensis, which is another of the new plants in my garden.

The dwarf Angelonia angustifolia 'Serena' or Summer Snapdragons are showing their marvellous little bell-shaped flowers.  Despite being a drought tolerant plant, it has come through the never-ending 'wet' season in brilliant style.  I will have to get more of this plant ... I'm thinking of creating a huge drift of them in the outdoor tiered garden bed that's been such a difficult area to plant.

This is a new development.  While I've had a couple of clumps of this red Gerbera in this garden bed for many, many years, this is the first time I've seen one pop up with a black centre.  I quite like it!

Celosia argentea var. plumosa is re-seeding itself in a couple of my containers ... always a welcome sight.

Here's a new sight and a fabulous surprise out in my garden.  The particular spot in the driveway garden where this shrub is growing, had an enormous and tall tree canopy over it, which was ripped away during the recent cyclone.  This shrub, now out in the open, has flowered for the first time. I'm still trying to identify the shrub ... but I am completely captivated by its' gorgeous spotty flowers.

My Jasminum officinale or Poet's Jasmine is flowering at last ... albeit rather sporadically.  It needs hours and hours of hot overhead sunshine to reveal it's true beauty and that has been sadly lacking for many months now, so I'm pleased to see it making an effort to show even a few flowers.

The birds have been returning to the bushland and it was a real treat to spot a pair of Forest Kingfishers around the property.  Can you see the little one perched on the gate showing off the beautiful turquoise on its' wing?  The colour is so much more vivid in reality, but the shot was taken on yet another overcast dreary day and from quite a distance away, so the brilliance was somewhat lost in the translation.

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I'm also joining the Today's Flowers meme, so make sure you visit that blog to see some more lovely flowers.

Wordless Wednesday ... A Welcome Sight!

I'm joining  Wordless Wednesday today.

It's Just Another Mosaic Monday.

The first month of our Autumn is almost over and here's a few things I've spotted around my place lately.

Raindrops on gum trees,

and all over flowers.

Foliage that pleases for hours and hours.

Kingfishers showing the blue on their wings.

These are a few of my autumnal things.

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