The Desert blooms

This enamel bowl of fruit was on the table when we arrived.

When it came to Miss Eagle's first turn on the roster, we decided to eat in.

To make things nice and festive Miss Eagle picked wild flowers for table decoration.

She placed gum leaves around the fruit bowl.

Below, she selected a large piece of white quartz,

put it on a large glass plate,

surrounded it with gum leaves, and placed some

tea lights around it.

(She had thrown these in the car, in case....)

Below are a wild species of portulacae which grows

around the homestead at The Nine Mile and it sits

comfortably with what may be a bracken fern in a saucepan