My Favourite Colours

Purple and green - my favourite colours! Today the rains began and gathered strength throughout the day. I had to go into town and as I dashed up the street I stopped at the sight of these berries - the green unripe ones and ripe purple together on one branch. From a distance they looked like grapes!

These however are not for human consumption though birds are fond of them. The plant is a Beautyberry (Callicarpa), another native Australian bush shrub.

The forecast is for more intensive monsoonal rains from tomorrow. If things get dramatic I'll blip them!