The Colour Purple

Did you know that a strange thing that happens in December? No, Lindy and I don't start dancing and pulling out the moves in public - we actually do that every week haha :D But the strange thing is the streets are invaded, the pathways overhung and the lawns strung and not many people notice at all. Which worries me - what happens if a zombie invasion decides to happen D:?

Luckily the thing that's taken over our streets isn't a brain-sucking monster. It's something very different - the jacaranda tree.

Until now, I've barely noticed this tree. Why would I? It's ugly (I'm sorry xD), nondescript and they all look very boring in their non-flowering form. Nobody really picks out jacarandas in the rest of year.

But come summer, suddenly you can't walk fifty metres without a purple branch raining flowers on your head - no joke! Everywhere you walk there's purple littered on the ground and honestly, I think it's beautiful.

I've noticed the trees are sometimes completely different - black trunk, white trunk, skinny branches, fat branches, you name it. But they all have the same gorgeous purple flowers. Some people find them annoying, but everytime I see a jacaranda true, it's like someone is waving at me!

Because it reminds me that you don't have be to beautiful from the start to shine, and that, if you're patient, there is a time for you. It reminds me that there is beauty in the most unexpected of places, and to appreciate it.

Someone once told me "You know Christmas is coming when the world turns purple." And it's true! I hope everybody has a great, great Christmas filled with candy and presents and sweetness and goodness and candy haha!

Sadly Lindy and I are leaving for New Zealand on Saturday and won't be back until Monday the week after, so we're going on hiatus. But expect us to be back stronger, bigger and better armed with our best smiles :)

And I know you'll miss us dearly, but try not to cry too much - tissues are getting expensive these days.

So next time you walk past a great big flowering tree with its shock of purple flowers, give it a hug from me! Or you more enthusiastic tree-huggers can go hug a less pretty, blackened tree.

Because we never judge a tree by it's trunk!

Happiness Equals Bracket =)