I'm joining with Elephant's Child and River for Sunday Selections. These photos are fairly recent.
Another photo of the good old days, with few cars on the roads and free flowing traffic before all those foreigners arrived and clogged up our cities.
This is a terrific sign, recognising that in spite of it being illegal to feed native creatures, people will do what they do, and feed ducks. Well done Melbourne Water.
I don't have a clue what these flowers are called.
Jacaranda flowering season is well past. When we first moved here in the early 2000s, I think the Jacaranda count in South Yarra, viewed from our balcony, was around 12. This year, I could only see 4.
I want nothing to do with Temu, no matter how hard FB and other sites try to force me to it. I do think it might be a serious threat to Amazon though. It's not that I give a whatever for Amazon. I have to use it for Kindle books, but that's it.
Further investigation is required.
A gift from Oldest Niece, a toasted sandwich maker and a food processor are in the cupboard which was open shelved for wine bottles. It shows the original kitchen colour before we had it made white. It is above the new and larger fridge, and I can no longer reach the cupboard without steps.
There were a number of these 'art items' spread around the City of Port Phillip.
A heron I think, waiting to spy food at St Kilda Botanical Gardens.
Yeah, nah. It doesn't work for me.
Everything in this area was removed for the construction of the Metro Tunnel, and put back and it is a great space. I remember checking to see if the water flowed from the bubble tap, but I can't remember if it did.
Near the State Trustees' huge building in Footscray, although I recently heard its location is Seddon. State Trustees is a government organisation who drew up my will. It can handle your affairs, and looks after the funds of those who are unable to look after themselves.
Maybe the same Footscray area.
Chapel Street, Windsor. So sad. I am sure it was there in the 1970s.
And another sad closure. The rents can be absurdly high, and it seems property owners would rather see buildings empty than negotiate on building rentals. It is much the same for newest high rise apartment buildings.
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ReplyDeleteDon't feed the ducks ... but if you do .... 😁 Ah well, people will be people...
JayCee, that's exactly it. People will be people and kids so enjoy the interaction with birds.
DeleteThat is a good sign about feeding the birds. Sadly people will continue to feed them bread and other things that are bad for them.
ReplyDeleteAs always I like your eclectic selections. Like you I avoid Temu - and pretty much Amazon too.
EC, I wonder how bad bread is for them. I should check I suppose. I've certainly done so, but a very small quantity that doesn't make any difference to the experience, and hopefully not much to the birds.
DeleteI avoid Amazon as much as possible. I canceled my prime membership a couple years ago or more. I always end up buying a gift through them at Christmas, no matter how hard I try to avoid it. I've never done Temu, although, like you, I get e-mails and targeted ads over and over again. What I mostly hear is that the quality is very hit and miss. Bait and switch. Often what you get is not at all what you think you're getting.
ReplyDeleteDebby, well I remember your Amazon experience. Phyllis has bought from Temu, and today he complained about Kosov carrying his, Phyllis', keys in his pocket and the gold wearing off. How much Phyllis? $10 at Temu. What did he expect.
DeleteI have never used Amazon and I don't even know what Temu is ....
ReplyDeleteBob, I am sure such an innocent as your good self would not know what Temu supplies.
DeleteYour day is wonderful. It has been a while since my visit to St Kilda as well. Feeding birds human food deprive them calcium causing beak destruction
ReplyDeleteRoentare, so we will mould soft bread around a calcium supplement before feeding it to ducks?
DeleteI think it is absurd for landlords to leave buildings empty rather than lower the rent a little and have a steady income flow. Those flowers look very familiar to me but I can't recall their name. Fairly sure they grow from bulbs. Had to laugh at your first photo, "fewer cars on the roads". I remember empty roads, but that was in Port Pirie which was a lot smaller back then and Saturday shops closed at noon and nothing was open on Sundays apart from petrol stations and churches.
ReplyDeleteRiver, I can kind of understand if they are multiple property owners, say in one street. But like you, I don't understand why a bird in the hand is not better than one in the bush. There was clearly something exceptional about the car photo, otherwise, why take a photo. Btw, a friend is in Adelaide and sent me some footage of the Obahn, which we travelled on three years ago. He said he'd been to Tea Tree Plaza. No man, you've been to Paradise. Well, we thought it was funny.
DeleteTea Tree Plaza is a huge shopping centre/mall, so easy to get lost in and it is in Modbury where the O'Bahn ends after it goes through Paradise. Neither of those is anywhere near Tea Tree Gully which is where some might think Tea Tree Plaza is.
DeleteI just love the idea of going to Paradise, actually visiting Paradise and not staying. I remember we could walk across an outdoor area to take shortcuts at the shopping centre.
DeleteI googled images of white flowers green centres and your flowers are quite possibly "ornithogalum chincherinchee".
ReplyDeleteI Googled the name and I think you are right, with an alternative name I recognise, star of Bethlehem.
DeleteStar of Bethlehem covers many, many, flowers of different genuses, called so simply because the flowers are star shaped.
DeleteAs different as Australia may be from the United States, if you hadn't told me otherwise, I would have thought that first picture was of an American city in the 1970s--Cleveland, even.
ReplyDeleteKirk, I would guess by the cars it was 1968, and it was unusual for here. Something was up to cause such congestion. It wasn't normal back then.
Delete"Few cars on the roads and free flowing traffic before all those foreigners arrived and clogged up our cities" ?????
ReplyDeleteHels, as they have continued to do since white men appeared in Australia. A joke I read today, we are lucky Australia began with convicts and not pilgrims.
DeleteI'd never use temu and i think I've used Amazon once. Im against monoliths.
ReplyDeleteIm also against being ripped off.
I think my favourite photo here is the Footscray garden. Such a great variety of textures and greens
Kylie, yes, the small park was delightful aside from the shipping container housing homeless?
DeleteInteresting selection of photographs. The cars look so quaint now and I suppose the same will be said of today's cars in time.
ReplyDeleteI'm pleased to see the ducks' welfare is carefully considered. 🦆
JB, I doubt the same will be said about cars now. Back then car models were so identifiable. Now, they are so generic, no one will give a hoot about them in the future, but they will about 60s and 70s cars. I read today about your Austin 1800s are so sought after now. They were exported to here and were a very good car but never really took off in England.
DeleteGood selection, enjoyed as always, Andrew. Don't forget your dinner :)
ReplyDeleteI've bought from Temu a few times along with Amazon - nothing wrong with either of them, just a preference or choise.
choice.
DeleteA little vanity product from Temu, Margaret, or some jewellery?
DeleteGreat selection, the space above the refrigerator. When we had the kitchen replaced, the designer put in a cabinet that comes all the way out to the front of the refrigerator, it is huge, and so handy for oversized items, and yes I have to use a little ladder to get to it.
ReplyDeleteTP, that would make sense, although in my kitchen, it would look odd. Yours and mine are not readily accessible, so are a good place to store seldom used items.
DeleteI found all the photos interesting, but the one of your dinner with the note especially endearing.
ReplyDeleteAll in Devon x
All, they are often so sweet.
DeleteWe have similar signs here, regarding duck feeding.
ReplyDeleteThat's good Strayer. Much more sensible than, Don't feed the ducks.
DeleteWe ordered once from Temu and the product was a cheap knock off which we threw out.
ReplyDeleteI like these Sunday collections that you do, Andrew.
Well, there you go Pat.
DeleteI think our signs for ducks says you can feed them peas, defrosted of course. It always looks blue skies and sunny in your part of Australia.
ReplyDeleteThelma, after three days of overcast skies today sees a clear blue sky, but generally this week, it will be quite cloudy.
DeleteI shudder to think of all the bread I fed to ducks (and fish) when I was young. I had no idea it was bad for them.
ReplyDeleteSad about the shops, but I guess all things must pass.
Steve, we all did but did we do great harm? I suppose so, but we didn't know.
DeleteSo so many shops and services closed in downtown now.
ReplyDeleteRetail streets have changed so much and few have succeeded as purely retail. They need food to attract people now.
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