I have to say that this week has been so peaceful at work. I am pottering around a fair bit by myself for a lot of this week due to many people being on leave, and I am finally loving it again! This may become a more permanent situation for me, just at a different site to the one I’m at now.

Over the past few months, I have realised that I am more than happy working by myself without the drama of other people. While I do like a a good chat with people, I don’t feel a need to be involved in any sort of drama as it makes life so much harder.

Anyway, I have been working at my current location for the best part of two years and I only noticed this Dracaena draco (or dragon tree) today. It is tucked into a bit of a corner at the back of the rose garden surrounded by random shrubs and trees.

Camellia flowers are a favourite of mine at the moment. Every winter here in Sydney, we get the very showy flowers in a range of mainly pink flowers.

These blue-green leaves below are definitely from a gum tree. I have an app on my phone that identifies plants-this tells me that these trees come from Eucalyptus camaldulensis, or River Red Gum. While this could very well be the correct identification for this tree, I can’t be fully certain. Sometimes, even experts can struggle working out which eucalypts are which sometimes! Either way, they are a fabulous colour, especially in the sun we have had today. Eucalypts are all fabulous in my eyes, just as long as they are planted in an appropriate place, which is in their native habitats.

I hope that you can see the bee on the picture below. While I was fussing over the lavender yesterday, there were so many bees doing their thing and loving life. I always love seeing bees out and about, they are so enjoyable to watch.

Winter is also the flowering time of meterosiderous. They are red and very showy in a simple sort of way.

For a week at work, I am as unusually chirpy so far. This is a good thing and I hope that this continues.