Wild Flower SeasonToday my gratitude lies with the glorious wild flower season of northern Western Australia.
I grew up in the city of Perth and the most exposure I had around the aussie outback was wheatbelt country. It's that big patch of land in the lower middle region of Western Australia. It's all in the name, wheat-belt country; gigantic wheat, lupin, barley, sheep and cattle farms. The flora is harsh, spikey and arid, there are 3-horned prickles called double-g's everywhere, there ain't much water around, salt lakes for days and the landscape seems never ending. As a child, I thought this was what the entirety of what the Australian outback looked like. Big, dry and dead. Don't get me wrong, I loved this version of the aussie landscape but since I have taken my feet wandering up north to Dampier, I now understand the terrain to be a lot more diverse and to my happy suprise, very colourful. Wildflowers are scattered all over the land, prefering to stay close to the ground with a shorter stem or they are tall with paper-like petals to accomadate the dry and hot climate. It's not like a fierce contrasting meadow full of daisies, the australian flower scene is beautiful in its subtleness, in that if you're not looking, you wouldn't notice them there; it's such a wonderful suprise when huge array of colours comes into your awareness. Wild flowers in the Aussie terrain remind me that you can always find beauty, even in the harshest of times. When I see these unique flowers scattered all around me, it inspires me to continue to look for the good things in life.
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