Jacarandas, Sydney Town Hall

In November I showed a row of jacarandas in full bloom. Keen-eyed observers of yesterday's photo of the Town Hall may have noticed that the trees out the front are jacarandas in full leaf. Here's a close-up of part of the building with one of the trees.

Sydney Town Hall is very "hotel de ville" French, and it does indeed have Italianate, and Second Empire French beaux arts influences. There's some history of it to be read here.

Sydney Town Hall from Kinokuniya Bookshop

Sydney Town Hall and St Andrews anglican cathedral, taken from the large windows of Kinokuniya Bookshop, overlooking the intersection of George and Druitt Streets. To take this photo, I just swivelled my body from where I took yesterday's.

Here's a close-up of the clock tower and cupola, which I showed on a previous blog.