Went for a walk with my brother-in-law at Lysterfield Park yesterday. He had been staying with us after our daughter’s wedding for a few days, along with his wife, my husband’s sister. We saw this gorgeous swamp wallaby just off the track we were walking on. After it had determined that we weren’t going to…
My daughter’s wedding
I don’t class myself as a portrait photographer, by any means, and we did engage an official photographer for the day. But there wasn’t any way I couldn’t have my own camera with me and I did take many photos, here are some, with a link to the rest, if you’re interested to look. All…
Amanita muscaria
I’d almost given up on seeing any this year in our garden. Previous years it had been much earlier in May for them to be visible. Here it is early June and I found this a few days ago, at the end of May. And we’ve only seen one this year instead of a dozen…
Last of Autumn
Winter has definitely been on the way for some weeks now. Cold days, cold nights, wind and rain and we’ve been getting the occcasional gorgeous Autumn day here and there. These are Autumn leaves from our Liquidamber tree in our garden. As you read this post today, we’re busy getting ready for our daughter’s wedding…
Flinders Street Station
Finally, after having breakfast with my friends, they walked me back to the train station. Many will have heard of Flinders Street station, and on a sunny morning like this one, its colours certainly did it proud. Underneath is a shot inside the station while I waited the arrival of my train. Tomorrow my daughter…
More views in the city
What amazed me was the number of cyclists in the city at that time of the morning. My husband tells me he read that it’s over 7,000 that ride into the city daily. I know I saw hundreds just in the short time I was wondering around. I liked this colourful alley as I walked…
Federation Bells
Something I hadn’t known about was the Federation Bells. I could hear bells playing not far from where I was walking along the river so went in search. What I found was quite a surprise – bells upside down on poles playing by themselves. You can read about them here. They play at different times…
Birdlife on the river
What’s a river if it hasn’t got birdlife? Seagulls (one has lost a foot), Pied Cormorant and a goose that I think was lost. It was honking forlornly on the river and I watched it as it passed under the bridge. I wonder where it came from? It didn’t seem to belong there.
Another view over the river
No matter where you go, if you’re on the river side of the city you’ll be able to see the Eureka Tower looming above the other buildings. I must visit the skydeck lookout one day! These shots were taken from the bridge near the Flinders Street Train Station. And that’s the train station with the…
Canoeing on the Yarra River
Canoeing is a popular sport with local schools and you will often see people first thing in the morning on the river. I thought the second shot rather amusing. You could say they lost their heads…
A visit to the city…
city of Melbourne that is. Some friends I haven’t seen in years were holidaying in Melbourne this past week so I took the opportunity to go in early one morning to meet with them and took a walk along the Yarra River while waiting. Glad I went in early, it was a beautiful morning. Here…
Bird photowalk at Lysterfield
I’ve been chatting with some at the Birds in Backyards forum and we decided to start doing photowalks together. As I run a business and need to be in the office during business hours only one person could meet up with me intially and we started lasted Monday. Unfortunately for us, there was a film…