Olinda Autum Gardens Dandenongs Melbourne

Plaster dog with bandaged back leg too!

Lydia Crawshaw necklace artist

Just got myself a great new necklace tie made by Lydia Crawshaw I have not seen anything quite like this before! Totally lovely and very well conceived and executed.It is made from hand woven shredded silk of many interesting colours with various copper, silver or brass metal beads - see more of her jewellery art at Tarra Warra Art museum in the Yarra Valley.

Gypsy Music in a Movie!

" When The Road Bends: Tales of a Gyspy Caravan " is the name of a movie be shown in Melbourne from April 12 2007 for a Limited Season. Filmed in tours around the US and in their homelands of Macedonia, Romania, India and Spain. Think I would like to see this one indeed!

Hastings Harbour Yachts and Pelicans Good Friday

Pirate Pelican bollard What a pain with no shops open in Melbourne on Good Friday...

Tim and Kim at their first Wedding in England

L-R: Georgie, Tim, Kim, Michael, 1999. Tim working with students 2006!

Early Music Baroque Melbourne

Consort Eclectus in conjunction with the Early Music Society of Victoria / AVDGS , presents, at the 28th Easter Viol workshop,
To Musick A program of favourite viol consort music by composers incl. Gibbons, Jenkins, Dowland & Simpson, and a new work for viols & voice by Calvin Bowman. Viols Miriam Morris - Ruth Wilkinson Laura Vaughn - Victoria Watts with guest artists Vivien Hamilton (soprano) & Asako Morikawa (Viola da Gamba)
Saturday April 7th, 2007 at 8.00 pm.
at Canterbury Girls' Secondary College, Drama Centre, Mangarra Road, Canterbury. Enter via Irilbarra Road. Melways map 46, B10 Join us for supper after the concert $25 / $15 concession. Tickets at door. Concession: Viol School Participants, EMSV members, Seniors, Students u/26, Canterbury Girls' staff & students Concert Enquiries& Bookings: (03) 9819 6517 info@consorteclectus.com EMSV enquiries: (03) 9876 5210 or 0407 765 220.

Melbourne Flower and Garden Show - more unusual items

Fake grass walls Centre stage painted flowers

Melbourne Flower and Garden Show 2007

Melbourne Flower and Garden Show 2007

Melbourne Flower and Garden show 2007

Flower and Garden show 2007 Melbourne

Flower and Garden show 2007

Melbourne Flower and Garden Show 2007

The Desert Garden

Melbourne to Lakes Entrance, Sale, Bairnsdale...

Art Gallery Cafe overlooks the site of a once busy inland port on the Latrobe river, that connects to the ocean, now a marina. .

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The open cut mine extends in a circle of 5 miles diameter or more across the whole valley like a moon-scape Yallourn open-cut coal mine - locals still believe it is not polluting! Sale Highway Sculpture `Red Sails in the Sunset’by International sculptor Viktor Cebergs. 2005 Bairnsdale roadside market - lots of plants and local produce - I bought a great T shirt for James - get a laugh if he wears it OS

Native animals and birds - Gang gangs, echidna, swans

Austtralian Native Black Swans. This little girl was very busy talking to the swans and seemed to think they would obey her! Gang Gang Cockatoos at Brandy Creek - just a few miles north of Warragul This shows how big these Gang Gang cockatoos are Captive Cockatoo - was apparently hungry so it was fed

Our Australian native animal the Echidna which is very shy and hard to photograph usually! We were lucky he was on the grassy verge of a slow speed section of the highway, but only went a few meters off the road into the bushes.