VICTORIANA
Many a Melbourne house in the inner city is original Victorian, complete with ironwork lace balconies and sculptural architectural deecorations.This post is part of the My Sunday Best meme.
View ArticleGHENT, BELGIUM
Ghent (Dutch: Gent; French: Gand; German: Gent) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the East Flanders province and after Antwerp the...
View ArticleDAHLIA 'YORK & LANCASTER'
Dahlia is a genus of bushy, tuberous, herbaceous perennial plants native mainly in Mexico, but also Central America, and Colombia. A member of the Asteraceae (Compositae), dicotyledonous plants,...
View ArticleYARRA REFLECTIONS
The Yarra River or historically, the Yarra Yarra River, (Aboriginal: Birrarung, and Wongete) is a perennial river in east-central Victoria, Australia. The lower stretches of the river are where the...
View ArticleSPRING SUNSHINE
Buttercups shining out in the Spring sun.This post is part of the My Sunday Best meme.
View ArticleBOROBUDUR, INDONESIA
Borobudur, or Barabudur (Indonesian: Candi Borobudur) is a 9th-century Mahayana Buddhist temple in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia, and the world’s largest Buddhist temple. The temple consists of...
View ArticleOLYMPIA, GREECE
Olympia (Greek: Ὀλυμπία), a sanctuary of ancient Greece in Elis on the Peloponnese peninsula, is known for having been the site of the Olympic Games in classical times. The Olympic Games were held...
View ArticleBILLBERGIA
Billbergia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae. The genus, named for the Swedish botanist, zoologist, and anatomist Gustaf Johan Billberg, is divided into...
View ArticleSUNSET RENDEZVOUS
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View ArticleDOG WALKER
This post is part of the Saturday Critters meme,and also part of the Camera Critters meme.
View ArticlePATH
Lovely to walk in the Parklands on a fine, sunny Spring day!This post is part of the My Sunday Best meme.
View ArticleLIFECYCLE
This post is part of the Mosaic Monday meme,and also part of the Macro Monday meme,and also part of the Seasons meme.
View ArticleJOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
Johannesburg (also known as Jozi, Joburg and Egoli) is the largest city in South Africa and is one of the 50 largest urban areas in the world. It is the provincial capital and largest city in Gauteng,...
View ArticlePIGEONS
The native Crested Pigeon (Ocyphaps lophotes) is a common bird found widely throughout mainland Australia except for the far northern tropical areas. Only two Australian pigeon species possess an erect...
View ArticleCORAL 'GERANIUM'
We know them as simply 'geraniums'. They are one of the most popular container plants, yet they are not really geraniums at all. Botanically they are Pelargonium. There are true geraniums, the...
View ArticleBULGARIAN SUNSET
Plovdiv (Bulgarian: Пловдив) is the second-largest city in Bulgaria after the capital Sofia, with a population of 338,153 according to the census from 2011. The city is situated in southern Bulgaria...
View ArticleMANTIS
Mantises are an order (Mantodea) of insects that contains over 2,400 species in about 430 genera in 15 families. The largest family is the Mantidae ("mantids"). Mantises are distributed worldwide in...
View ArticleNIUE, OCEANIA
Niue (/ˈnjuːeɪ/ NEW-ay; Niuean: Niuē) is an island country in the South Pacific Ocean, 2,400 kilometres northeast of New Zealand, east of Tonga, south of Samoa, and west of the Cook Islands. Niue's...
View ArticleQUAIL
The buff-breasted buttonquail (Turnix olivii) is the largest and possibly the rarest of the buttonquail. This species is endemic to Cape York Peninsula, in Queensland, Australia.The buff-breasted...
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