Glad you got to see the image at least Pat!
When I was in the UK in 1985 they said the same thing about the weather - they were skiing on the French Riviera that year!
Here.s another tree for you - a Moreton Bay Fig. This particular one is in the Domain of Sydney - right in the middle of town and next to the Botanic Gardens. It is an area used for outdoor concerts and is in full gear at the moment because the Sydney Festival goes on for the whole of January - there is opera in the Park, symphony and so on and it is a family event generally speaking. The trees provide a lovely backdrop and shade. They grow very large and have beautiful trunks often with a veil of aerial roots reaching down the ground. They are able to start growing in small cracks in the sandstone rocks of the area and the aerial roots give them added support
These Moreton Bay figs were widely planted in the early years of Sydneys development and are now quite old by Australian standards - getting to 100 years
They fruit each year and attract possums, Flying Foxes ( a large bat) and many birds such as channel billed Cuckoos. There is a bat colony of hundreds of individuals in the Botanic Gardens and unfortunately they are rather unattractive in some respects - they damage the trees. are very raucous and stink!
They also carry a rather nasty virus which has killed a bloke
However, when they fly from their daily roost at sunset, and are joined by a very large colony in a nearby suburb that borders forest, the sight is absolutely amazing. Once when driving through the city - Sydney is not a small town, this was in between sky scrapers and a busy metropolis - the bats overhead flew so close as to be reflected in the glass windows of the city office blocks. The sky was darkening (we dont get twilight) but was a beautiful burnt orange, and hundreds and hundreds of bats streamed across it, with soft flapping of their wings and raucous calls to each other as they spread out over the suburbs to feed. We get them in our trees at home here.