Michael Ward | Creative
Michael Ward 
Saffron (Crocus sativus) is bulb. The dried thread-like parts of the flower (stigmas) are used to make saffron spice, food coloring, and medicine. Saffron contains chemicals that might alter mood, kill cancer cells, decrease swelling, and act like antioxidants.
The Wandoo forest is located between Chidlow in the Darling Ranges and York in Western Australia. It’s a special place where these magnificent beige bark eucalyptus trees (Eucalyptus wandoo) grow the canopy is more open and the trees smaller than the Jarrah forests thirty km to the west. The understory plants on the forest floor are also different with many other species plants to that of the Jarrah forest here there is less rain, the earth is dry and new growth ceases until the next rain.
A reason for it all. This is the third blog I have authored under this, my original URL. The first began back in 2001 and grew out of my first website created in Claris Homepage and Page Mill from 1990. It began in a much tinkered with HTML way. It ran for twelve years with almost 3000 posts… Over the course of that period it evolved into a wonderful “modern” hand coded CMS program written by a friend of my daughter. This morphed into a WordPress site in 2007/8. After a hiatus of ten years due to a trans continental move, a few health issues and the creation of a new garden I now have the time and inclination to photograph, draw and paint my way through what is realistically the last phase of my life. TBC…