Floriade

flower city

hipster flower was red before it was cool.

Floriade (pronounced:  floor e' a_de)  the pride of Canberra.  This flower show is the biggest in all of Australia and attracts people from all over.  Flowers on flowers.  Well this was just a pit stop on our way outta the capitol city.  We strolled around for a bit and took in the aromas and fragrances of tulips, gardenias  (is this a real flowers) and other flowery things.  I've never been to a flower show before but it was more than I expected.   I mean this is THE event for Canberra.  Everyone comes out for this event. So there's carnival stuff, stands for food, arts and crafts... stuff like that.  So the flower patches (gardens?) were in designed to make some image, .. but from the viewing angle and disproportionate growing patterns (courtesy of weather)... the designs didn't turn out so hot.  In any case we had a good time wandering around... til we saw this.

gnomes... everywhere

 So, along with any garden belongs a mischievousness gnome.  Thus.  gnome decorating contests!  They were classified into different groups, based on age.  (note: 0-6 years of age, motor skills have not been developed).  It was good to see different groups collaborate and produce a theme... though so got kinda weird .

note:  death metal gnome

So next week, i'm going to perth.  check it on the maps.. yep all the way across the continent.  (is the west coast the best coast?)  i'll find out soon enough.  with that said, imma skip out on the post next week and write when i get back.  til then, keep it real