During January the Botanic Gardens in Canberra host a series of summer concerts on Saturday and Sunday nights.The three of us took a picnic along and listened to a really great band play bluegrass and country music. It was a lovely warm evening and the lady accordian player who lead the group was superb.
Audrey loved the music - and also enjoyed wandering between the other picnic-ers and seeing whether the food they had bought with them bettered ours.
The Eucalypt lawn is a lovely venue too. There are (believe it or not) over 700 species of Eucalyptus native to Australia and many of them are on the large undulating lawn.
Unnervingly though I had learnt at our last visit to the Gardens, that one of the species of Eucalypt is known as 'widow maker' as the tree frequently sheds large branches without warning. The knowledge of this, put me on edge throughout the night. Fortunately though no catastophes occurred to us or any of the hundreds of picnic-ers there!
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