It has been such an amazing season for magnolias in Melbourne this year.
I had to pull my bike over 3 times on the way home yesterday to photograph the gorgeous trees in flower in my neighbourhood at the moment.
Poor Dan The Dog also gets pulled off course on our walks whenever I spot one. But she’s quite used to such ridiculous floral obsessions now. She’s had 11 years of me running back home to grab a chair and pruning shears to cut flowers and overhanging fruit.
Not that I could ever snip a magnolia, no matter how far it hung over into the lane. They are so majestic and their blooms so fleeting that surely such an act should be a crime. That wattle behind the old train line however.... watch out!