hug a gum Tree

A bleak wintry Sunday, but I decided I needed to wrap up warm and bike along side the river that is a raging torrent due to the amount of rain we have just had, and retrieve some bark that had come down from a stand of Eucalyptus trees. They looked magnificent today against the grey sky, and I am delighted to find that they are part of our local park and they have their botanical names:
Eucalyptus gregsoniana...Wolgan Snow Gum; E.scopania...Wallangara White; E.obliqua...Messmate Stringybark; E.rossii...Scribbly Gum. 
Enough inspiration in the names for a page of Calligraphy!

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