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patterns
a repeated decorative design.
Canada
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Lush greens…
…of Canada’s…
…Butchart Gardens…
…which are…
…located on…
…British Columbia’s
Vancouver Island…
…about a twenty-minute…
…bus trip out…
…of the City of Victoria.
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FriendlyFriday:...Green
Amanda Sandi
FriendlyFriday21-Trains
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V/Line travel to and from Melbourne is improving all the time…
…with our rolling stock proudly made in Victoria.
Pre-pandemic we celebrated our wedding anniversary…
…with dinner aboard the Q Train…
…in our first-class cabin
Our next train adventure was a bit more modern
than the Old Queenslander…
…a real Red Carpet treatment on both mornings
and umbrellas to keep the rain off
as we boarded the second morning…
…and it was always expected that Canada’s
Rocky Mountaineer
would be something special.
Again we treated ourselves to the
Gold Leaf experience.
The Gold Leaf
cars are on two levels.
Upstairs, guests are seated and view the passing countryside
in the most comfortable train seats possible…
All dining is on the bottom level of Gold Leaf…
…while we were told that meals were brought to where guests
were seated in Silver Leaf carriages.
The difference between carriages is clear in the above photo.
Single versus double-deck carriages and
no rooftop viewing in Silver Leaf.
To wrap up our two-day journey a welcoming committee
greeted us upon our arrival in Vancouver
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FriendlyFriday:...Trains
Amanda Sandi
Cee’s-FFChallenge-Circles-Curves
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Circular light shade.
Canada’s
Rocky Mountaineer train
Curved outdoor seating
Manly
Sydney
Just made for this challenge.
Swirls, curves and circles form
this outdoor seat in rural Victoria.
Circular plant holder.
This ibis has nice curves along its beak and back
Circular Barrel ends.
Curves…
Curves…
…and still more curves form Rome’s Colosseum.
Finally, at Geelong’s Eastern Beach,
there is a curve in the water’s edge
which leads to corresponding curves
in the walking path and the tree line.
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plain-plane
a large area of flat land with few trees.
(of a bird or an airborne object) soar
without moving the wings; glide.
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I think Botswana’s
Kalahari Desert…
…fits the
…large area of flat land with few trees…
definition of plains
Planes from all over at Johannesburg’s
O.R. Tambo Airport
South Africa
A sea, or float, plane
Muddy River
British Columbia
Canada
Brtish Airways leaving Heathrow Airport
Jet Fighter deploys anti-missile countermeasures
at the Australian International Airshow.
Also known as the
Avalon or Geelong Airshow.
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One Word Sunday Challenge:...Plane-Plain
WeeklyPrompts-PC-Chop
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chop
cut (something) into pieces with repeated sharp blows
of an axe or knife
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A steady hand, a sharp chisel and a fast-spinning lathe…
…Quickly sees all unwanted pieces of wood
chopped off leaving a smooth table leg
in its place.
A band saw cuts/chops a section of wood from this block.
Wood, cut into lengths ready for splitting…
…on Vancouver’s
Grouse Mountain,
British Columbia
Canada.
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Weekly Prompt Photo Challenge:…Chop
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Cees-MWMChallenge22-May-Colour-Forest-Dark-Green
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Perhaps not as dark as it could be.
A better shade for this week
Topiary from Vienna’s
Schonbrunn Palace…
…and Canada’s
Butchart Gardens.
Closer to home is the
Otway Rain Forest…
Still part of the Otway Forest,
I included this image because this morning
is the second of two foggy mornings this week.
Love the ferns
Part of the forest near Beech Forest township
on the edge of the Otway Ranges
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Ladders
Ice in our gutter
Windows
Hydrangea and its recycled fence paling planter box
A good book will receive a five-star rating in my book reviews.
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Cees-MWMChallenge22-April-Colour-Purple-Yellow
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Purple Freesias
Tibouchina
King Alfred Daffodil
Tibouchina
Canadian Water Taxi
Canola crop in bloom
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Knight to King three
Paying homage to the pioneers
Wood scraps
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