JIGSAW PUZZLING

The Art and Fable Puzzle Co - @artandfablepuzzles - in the USA have produced two great quality 1000 piece jigsaw puzzles based on my paintings. You can buy them online and they are also available in Australia in several shops (eg: Mind Connect). They make great gifts for the puzzlers in your life!

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and also part of the Floral Friday Fotos meme

RAIN, RAIN, RAIN

We've received quite a lot of Spring rains the past couple of days in Melbourne. Although it was much needed, we also had some unfortunate flooding in some suburbs, high winds with trees uprooted and interruption to the electricity supply in some neighbourhoods. In the western suburbs there was even a mini tornado that went through and caused some havoc.

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CYCLING

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WINTER IN MELBOURNE

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MUSIC

Now that the weather is bleak and cold in the Southern Hemisphere, nothing better than being indoors and enjoying some live music! Fortunately, in Melbourne we have a vibrant music scene and there is no dearth of music of all kinds to enjoy in a variety of venues.

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AUTUMN ZEN BOX

Chestnuts roasting

While rain is falling,

Under southern skies.

Leaves are reddening,

Berries ripening,

Fire burns bright.

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AUTUMN'S WEBS

The nights are longer,

So spiders can weave more webs;

And the rains begin...

NJV

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GENTLY INTO AUTUMN

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HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!

Chinese New Year, or the Spring Festival, is a festival that celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar. It is one of the most important holidays in Chinese culture, and has been added to the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity list by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in 2024.

Marking the end of winter and the beginning of spring, this festival takes place from Chinese New Year's Eve (the evening preceding the first day of the year) to the Lantern Festival, held on the 15th day of the year. The first day of Chinese New Year begins on the new moon that appears between 21 January and 20 February.

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NIGHT GARDEN

Enjoying the full moon in the garden on this summer night. A digital mosaic of several photos.

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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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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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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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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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POINT OF VIEW

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BOTANY LESSON

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SUMMER

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WIRY EGG

Having a bit of fun with some lengths of rusty wire and stones I found on a walk. I wondered if cast iron ducks lay wiry eggs? 

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SUNDAY BEST #242 - ORANGE

Welcome to the meme, "My Sunday Best", which is a photographic and creative meme that allows you to showcase your talents in imaging. Every Sunday, you can post here showing an image you have created using your camera, (and/or) image processing software, and/or painting and drawing in the conventional way and have scanned in.

The rules are simple:
1) Create your image and post it up on your blog;
2) Put the "My Sunday Best" logo image link somewhere on your post so people can click and come by here;
3) Leave a comment here once you have posted;
4) Visit other posters' blogs and be amazed with their creativity!

Please do not use this meme to advertise your goods or services. This is a creative meme and any inappropriate links or comments shall be removed immediately.

The theme is of your own choosing, so post on any subject you desire.

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Last week, Lydia in Sydney had a great shot in her blog, which I liked very much. Please visit her pages to see more great posts.

PAREIDOLIA

On your desert isle,

Dark crannies full of moss and lichen;

Suitable for fashioning into chaplets

That suit your endless dryad melancholy;

When will your heart break,

And reveal its stony core within?

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