I was at a meeting on Friday. I went and bought a new camera on Saturday morning and then, having seen an item about it in the local newspaper, made an unplanned visit to the Botanic Garden. Spent a couple of hours wandering around there - mid-October is apparently the peak period for wildflowers - and then went to meet n2kaja for coffee at the National ( Read more... )

T-shirt weather!

I went for a longish ramble, for the first time in a couple of months, and found these lovely old roses in a doctor's garden.

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Callan Park was Sydney's main psychiatric hospital from 1878 to 1976. It is a vast complex (at one stage it had more than a thousand patients) designed in "Victorian Italianate" style by Edmund Blackett who did a lot of public buildings at the time. Now it belongs to the Sydney Arts College and has been pretty well restored. I seem to have wandered ( Read more... )

I've been meaning to post this photo for a couple of weeks. Wendy W. has added the trike to her collection of "sculptures" in The Garden. It is pretty much identical (apart from the rust, lack of tyres and wooden replacement seat) to the tricycle I had when I was a kid. Mine was red with solid white tyres and white hand grips. My kid brother used ( Read more... )

Day 17: heading home, with a few detours ( Read more... )

(I'm sure this statue is totally unsuitable for LJ)

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Village with tourists. Note the door on the left - I'd have to bend to get through it.

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Monet's famous lily pond on a warm, overcast day in August.

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