Floriade is Australia’s biggest flower festival held in Canberra during the October school holidays. This year the weather was pretty rubbish for the whole 2 week holiday period, temperatures hovered around 13 Celcius and there were lots of rainy days, so we didn’t do our usual picnic in the sun at Floriade this year. I still wanted to go though to take photos of the beautiful blooms, so on the very last day we braved the cold wind (keep in mind it’s spring here! you wouldn’t think so from my posts recently…) and went to Commonwealth Park.
I’m glad we did as I love some of the closeups I got of colourful petals. Continue reading to see lots of bright and happy (and a little bit wet) blooms…
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Welcome to my little corner of the blogosphere. I'm Mikaela, I am female, 25, married, and busy by choice. I love life and have too many ideas in my head, and wish there were more hours in the day (I'm sure old people always said that when I was growing up). I live in and love Canberra, Australia (2 hours to beach or snow, what more could you ask for?). For more about who I am and what I do, go to the about page =)
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