SUNDAY BEST #402 - VANDALISM

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Italian artist Paola de Manincor created some lovely murals in Melbourne, before she died in 2011. This is on a garden wall in a Brunswick church. Vandals have defaced it in the most shameless and mindless way.

Such a great pity to see how our values as a society are changing and to see that the attitude of: "If I can't create it, watch me destroy it" is becoming not only commonplace, but grotesquely acceptable. You can see the photos of the original mural I took in 2014 here.

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Last week, Rupam Sarma in India showcased this lovely B&W image. Please visit his page for more great shots.

SUNDAY BEST #401 - AT THE PARK

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Last week, Roentare in Melbourne shared this beautiful shot of a sea cave in Portsea. Please visit his blog for more fantastic photos!

SUNDAY BEST #400 - MUSIC TO MY EYES

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Last week, Adventures in Weseland, in USA posted some lovely photos of music being played in the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Music Festival in San Francisco. His photo below was my fave, beautiful in a nostalgic, youthful and innocent manner. Please check out his blog for more fine shots.

SPRING FLOWERS

A few wet Spring days with even some snowfalls in the nearby mountains! Winter seems to be lingering on a bit there. Our garden nevertheless, is certainly spring-blooming!

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SUNDAY BEST #399 - MORNINGTON BEACH

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Last week, Kwarkito in France shared the following striking image. Please visit his blog for more great photos and thoughts.

KALANCHOE

Kalanchoe uniflora is a very versatile, easy to care for succulent with small oval-shaped, flat green leaves on burgundy stems that burst out with vivid red, bell shaped flowers in spring. It's a gorgeous trailing plant perfect for hanging baskets, grown in rockeries or hot spots in your garden.

Kalanchoe, is a genus of about 125 species of tropical, succulent plants in the stonecrop family Crassulaceae, mainly native to Madagascar and tropical Africa. A Kalanchoe species was one of the first plants to be sent into space, sent on a resupply to the Soviet Salyut 1 space station in 1979.[4] The majority of kalanchoes require around 6–8 hours of sunlight a day; a few cannot tolerate this, and survive with bright, indirect sunlight to bright shade.

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SUNDAY BEST #398 - IN THE FOG

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Last week, Adventures in Weseland, in USA posted some lovely photos of music being played in the San Francisco Botanical Gardens. Please check out his blog for more fine shots.

SUNDAY BEST #397 - COMET A3

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Right now, south of the equator, amateur astronomers are watching a comet that's just emerged from behind the sun. Soon, it will be the turn of observers in the Northern Hemisphere, but will Comet A3 — also known as C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) — really become one of the brightest comets visible in the Northern Hemisphere in the last 100 years, as claimed by Star Walk? Or even potentially visible in daylight during October, as Sky & Telescope suggests?

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Last week, Rupam Sarma from India posted this lovely shot. Please visit his blog for more great photos.

SUNDAY BEST #396 - THE CUSP OF SPRING

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Merri Creek in Northcote with Spring reaching the right bank and getting ready to cross the creek and touch the left bank's trees...

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Last week, Taken for Granted in the USA contributed this lovely photo. Please visit his blog for more great shots.

SUNDAY BEST #395 - MELBOURNE DOCKLANDS

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Last week, Jim in Sydney contributed this iconic view in Sydney Harbour. Please visit his blog for more great shots of Sydney.

SUNDAY BEST #394 - FATHER'S DAY

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Father's Day is celebrated on different dates in various countries primarily due to historical and cultural reasons. In Australia, the first Sunday of September is chosen, which coincides with the beginning of Spring—a season often associated with rebirth and renewal, making it apt for celebrating fathers.

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Last week, Roentare shared some wonderful photos of Toucheng Old Town, Yilan, Taiwan. Please visit his blog for more great shots!

SUNDAY BEST #393 - OUTING

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Last week, Taken for Granted in the USA shared this lovely image of a House Finch. Please visit his blog for more fine photos.

FLOWERING PLUM

A flowering plum tree, always a sign that Spring is on its way in Melbourne.

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SUNDAY BEST #392 - TOADSTOOLS AND MOSS

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Last week, Roentare posted some wonderful photos from a Balnarring sunset at Mornington Peninsula, Australia. Please visit his blog for more great snaps!

SUNDAY BEST #391 - SUNSHINE

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Enjoying a fine Winter's day sunshine in suburban Melbourne.

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Last week, Selep Imaging shared some lovely images of white peacocks from Italy. Please visit her blog for more great photos.

STILL WINTER

We're still in the middle of Winter, and there is cold, rain, long dark nights and woolen jumpers. Either the Winter is longer and heavier this year, or I'm getting older. And maybe I'm getting a touch of Torschlusspanik!

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SUNDAY BEST #390 - FOG

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Last week, Veredit in Germany posted this lovely portrait in BW, which was a favourite of mine. Please visit her site for more great photography, and more!

SUNDAY BEST #389 - HIGH DENSITY LIVING

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Last week, Roentare in Melbourne showed this intriguing photo of a petrified forest in Victoria. Please visit his blog for more interesting and beautiful photos.

SUNDAY BEST #388 - GEWGAWS

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A self-serve shop full of vending machines selling soft toys, collectibles and other gewgaws, at the Highpoint West Shopping Centre.

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Last week, Roentare in Melbourne shared some of his amazing photos of spectacular Australian coastlines. Please visit his blog for more.

SUNDAY BEST #387 - AT THE RESTAURANT

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Last week, Kwarkito in France posted this lovely photo from Avignon. Please visit his blog for more great shots.

SUNDAY BEST #386 - LIGHT A CANDLE

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Proverbs 4: "Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."

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Last week, Selep Imaging from the USA posted some great shots from the Yellowstone National Park. Please visit her blog for more beautiful photos.

SUNDAY BEST #385 - FED SQUARE INTERIOR

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Federation Square (marketed and colloquially known as Fed Square) is a venue for arts, culture and public events on the edge of the Melbourne central business district. It covers an area of 3.2 ha at the intersection of Flinders and Swanston Streets built above busy railway lines and across the road from Flinders Street station. It incorporates major cultural institutions such as the Ian Potter Centre, Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) and the Koorie Heritage Trust as well as cafes and bars in a series of buildings centred around a large paved square, and a glass walled atrium. The square was opened on 26 October 2002.

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Last week, Lydia in Sydney Australia offered us a beautiful post with equally beautiful photos, the one below, my fave. Please visit her blog for more great shots.

SUNDAY BEST #384 - A PLACE TO CALL HOME

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A typical block of 1960s Melbourne flats, each typically comprising a living area, a bedroom, a bathroom and kitchen. These ageing buildings are often derided for being unattractive, utilitarian and cheap. But these buildings also have design features we have come to celebrate: narrow footprints that allow cross ventilation, flexible floorplans, minimal use of shared walls, low-maintenance design and a modest human scale. We seldom find these features in apartment developments today...

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Last week, Jim in Sydney shared this photo of Sydney's "Vivid", a Winter lights spectacular held in multiple venues in the city. Please visit his blog for more great shots.

SUNDAY BEST #383 - AT THE GALLERY

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Nina Sanadze's "Call to Peace, Anatomy of the Dream", exhibited at the The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia at Federation Square in Melbourne. Sanadze, a Georgian artist residing in Australia since 1996 is making an anti-war statement, using sculptures and reimaginings of classical forms in various stages of construction, completion and/or deconstruction.

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Last week, Roentare in Melbourne shared this photo from his trip to New Zealand. Please visit his blog for more great shots.

MELBOURNE POSTCARD

This is a digital postcard I made some time ago and I am sending it to a friend who is overseas and feeling a little homesick... 

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SUNDAY BEST #382 - RAINY EVENING

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Last week, Csuhpat1 in the USA posted a great series of shots on the NASCAR Xfinity series in Portland. Check out his blog for more photos.

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GOTHIC

This mosaic features the former English, Scottish & Australian Bank (now ANZ ‘Gothic Bank’) at 382-392 Collins Street (north-east corner of Collins and Queen Streets). This edifice is considered to be the finest secular Gothic Revival building in Australia. It was erected as the head office of the ES&A Bank in 1883-87. The top two floors were the residence of George Verdon, general manager of the bank, and an enlightened patron, who commissioned noted architect William Wardell, and together they created this masterpiece.

The flat stone exterior is punctuated by delicately elaborated openings, those of the first floor porches in Venetian Gothic tracery. Inside, the banking chamber is a tour-de-force of rich Gothic imagery and 19th century technology – the columns, ribbing and sculptural capitals are all made of iron. Verdon’s residence above remains substantially intact (also lavishly ornamented), and was occupied by the women only Lyceum Club in the 1920s. The bank expanded in 1922 to occupy the adjacent buildings on both streets, and the banking chamber was seamlessly extended into the former Stock Exchange.

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