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Maple leaf…perhaps.
Ginko Trees by Corio Bay.
Ochre Coloured sand…
…near Gibson Steps on the
Great Ocean Road
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During a long dry spell our backyard quickly turns
from lush green grass to dry and dusty
with only the occasional weed providing
some colour.
A dry stone wall fence, and…
…a South African dry creek bed,
finalise today’s contributions.
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SUNDAY STILLS PHOTO:….Dry
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Raindrops on clover.
If the backyard was bare of grass
it would look like this right now.
As it is there is a good covering of grass and
quite a bit of surface water still around.
Although the Friday/Saturday rain
was not this heavy,
it was plentiful.
Raindrops on the car windshield.
A heavy and brief summer shower.
Roses and water.
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SUNDAY STILLS PHOTO:….Water-Droplets
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A variety of Towers towering over
their respective landscape.
I’m not sure why the Tower of London was so named.
Google to the rescue:
It was founded towards the end of 1066
as part of the Norman Conquest of England.
The White Tower, which gives the entire castle its name,
was built by William the Conqueror in 1078 and was
a resented symbol of oppression, inflicted
upon London by the new ruling elite.
And now I know 🙂
Closer to home is…..
…Auckland’s Sky Tower in New Zealand.
Using your imagination it could be
described as similar to Sydney’s Tower.
The major point of difference is that we
celebrated Number 2 Daughter-in-Law’s birthday
with dinner in the Auckland Sky Tower in 2018.
Many of my photos I remember taking,
not so this one over Paris…
…not from the top observation point.
Alas we only made it to the
second observation deck.
I guess we should be happy to have made
it up the Eiffel Tower at all,
because we did not set foot inside the
Giotto Bell Tower in Florence, in Italy.
I think we may have paid more than we should have,
to visit the observation deck of the Burj Khalifa
(Burj meaning Tower, so I was told).
However, it was a wonderful, last day, experience
and we thought some pricey
souvenir photos worthwhile.
High Tea at the Burj Al Arab was our
main reason for a stopover in Dubai.
Again, not something to do on a weekly basis
but a wonderful experience.
We nudged the local retail economy along
with a new set of clothes each, for the occasion,
and felt human after living in the same
traveller kit for four weeks.
These Towers are springing up
all over the Western District.
Almost at our back door, on the farm,
is a wind farm of over 100 towers
claimed to be the largest in
the Southern Hemisphere.
May have been when built,
but no longer so, I suspect.
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SUNDAY STILLS PHOTO:….Towering
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Melbourne skyline,
just before sunset.
From the
Langham Hotel,
Melbourne skyline
at dusk.
Inside looking out of,
and across Spencer Street,
Southern Cross Railway Station
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SUNDAY STILLS PHOTO: Yellow
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(Fake) Orange donuts
Fish.
Motor Scooter.
‘Jaffa‘ is the official name of the colour.
It will always be orange to me..
We don’t have a huge crop of oranges
to harvest, however, each year
we do have some home grown
oranges to munch on.
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SUNDAY STILLS PHOTO: Yellow
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Winter images from our garden
August 25, 2020.
Hellebores (Winter Rose) in bloom.
Ranunculus and Pink Daffodil bud.
I posted this image of the photo attached
to some pink daffodils purchased
a few months ago.
So far we have around twenty in bloom.
Does this resemble the advertised colour?
A little disappointing, I think.
We may stick to King Alfred in future.
They are beautiful this year.
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SUNDAY STILLS PHOTO: Yellow
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Perhaps not literally through my window
but very close to our house…
which runs north-south giving us…
…a sunrise each morning in the living area.
Literally through the window our weeping cherry
used to greet the morning sun also.
Last year it managed to block drainage holes in its pot
so no more weeping cherry, at least for a while.
At day’s end these are the views…
…from our dining/kitchen windows.
And if I am awake in the morning this view
of moonset through our neighbour’s trees
is always on the cards.
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SUNDAY STILLS PHOTO: Yellow
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Whistler Ski Fields
in the
Canadian Rockies.
Hopkins Falls,
Warrnambool,
South West Victoria.
Balyang Sanctuary
Geelong.
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Drakensberg Mountains,
South Africa.
The Grampians…the southern end of
Australia’s Great Dividing Range
Two views of…
…Geelong’s
Moorabool Valley.
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After our night at
Botswana’s Lekhubu Island
we headed off to
Maun and the Okavango Delta…
…through the North-East
Kalahari Desert landscape.
The almost bare open landscape was…
…interspersed with several
Kalahari Bushmen Villages.
Salt Pans on the horizon
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