{"id":5686,"date":"2014-02-22T07:08:47","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T07:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=5686"},"modified":"2018-08-28T08:40:29","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T22:40:29","slug":"weekly-photo-challenge-three-picture-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=5686","title":{"rendered":"Weekly photo challenge: Three-picture story"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the lower slopes of Black Mountain in Canberra is a unique form of Botanic Gardens.\u00a0 The entrance seems to promise a dry native forest, but the gardens offer examples of all kinds of Australian native plants, and nothing but.\u00a0 We rode our bikes here this morning, and as I walked my bike up the incline of the entrance, I snapped Black Mountain Tower and admired the symmetry of trees either side.\u00a0 This is Canberra.\u00a0 The city of symmetry.<\/p>\n

\"Australian<\/p>\n

With many native plants hailing from the warmer tropical parts of the country, it’s tricky to keep them alive here in the cool capital where we have several months of frost and very low temperatures.\u00a0 Yet, in an old dry eucalypt gully, a rainforest has been developed with the addition of 2,000 misting sprinklers that keep the humidity high and allow specimens from the tropical north to survive.\u00a0 The rainforest canopy is dense and keeps out any light breeze; the only agitation today is the flitting and scurrying of birds and lizards on the forest floor.<\/p>\n

\"Rainforest<\/p>\n

Signs along the rainforest boardwalks say that Australia once looked like this all over, cool and damp, dark green and fungal.\u00a0 These timber boards are gradually returning to that wilderness state, but as they wear down into a more natural form they make a good canvas for shifting shapes.<\/p>\n

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On the lower slopes of Black Mountain in Canberra is a unique form of Botanic Gardens.\u00a0 The entrance seems to promise a dry native forest, but the gardens offer examples of all kinds of Australian native plants, and nothing but.\u00a0 We rode our bikes here this morning, and as I walked my bike up the … <\/p>\n

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