If Wilson could sing, he would be singing:
Hail, glorious St. Patrick, dear saint of our isle,
On us thy poor children bestow a sweet smile;
And now that you’re high in your mansions above,
On Erin’s green valleys look down with your love.
Happy St Patrick’s Day everyone!
We have been very lucky since we have come back from our holidays as the weather has been lovely & spring is most definitely here. The sun has been shining & we have been out for some great walks.
Boat on the Broadwater
In Australia and New Zealand the weather was far too lovely to stay inside, but just occasionally we decided to go indoors to have a look at some historical buildings. In Melbourne we visited the Block Arcade and the Royal Arcade. Here are some of my pictures;
Gog and Magog in the Royal Arcade Melbourne
Purple is probably my second least favourite colour (after grey). I’m not sure why, I don’t buy things that are purple, I don’t have any purple clothes (apart from one dress) and I don’t seem to have many purple photos! If only I had known about these challenges when I posted about a Purple Swamphen (that is actually blue!)
Here’s one from a weekly photo challenge a while back;
D’Oyly Carte Island at Sunset
Since we have come back from New Zealand where we did lots of walking and some very steep hills at times, we have decided to keep up the level of fitness that we achieved there and to try and improve it!
Over here we don’t have anything nearly as high as the mountains we climbed in New Zealand (we didn’t actually climb mountains… just bits of them) Over there one time we climbed up 400m, and another time 5oom after an 8 mile walk! Continue reading
Flinders Street Station is beautiful, but difficult to photograph! It’s a very long building! Here are some of my best attempts;
Flinders Street Station
I love Rainbow Lorikeets! So much I want to post another photo of one straight away following my post of one yesterday for the Weekly Photo Challenge. Thank you Michelle for the opportunity 🙂
This week’s photo challenge is ‘Perspective‘. An interesting challenge…
A Rainbow Lorikeet in a tree in the Botanical Gardens in Melbourne
Blue is my absolute favourite colour, so my holiday photo albums are full of blue photos!
The Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge, surrounded by blue!
Having just spent time in Australia and New Zealand, it was even easier to find blue photos, since the sky was almost permanently a beautiful clear blue colour!
Thank you to Jennifer for this challenge, I’m already on the look out for Purple for next week!
I really love this pedestrian bridge over the river Yarra in Melbourne, and thought it would be a perfect entry for Cee’s Which Way Challenge
Foot Bridge Melbourne
Day One 