This is an arrangement of Australian native plants which flower during the winter.
MotherGoose may recognise the Templetonia near the foreground.

One of my Dad's favoUrite flowers was the Red Hot Poker.
He's been gone for nearly 15 years now but the plant is flourishing nicely and now stands over 6 feet tall.

Typical houses in Temple Fortune where I wouldn't mind living if I could afford them.

I understand your feelings, Martin cube.
Much of my garden evolved from seeds, cuttings and plants struggling for survival in jam tins, all given with affection by people who have now passed on.
I treasure them all and remember the givers fondly.

The pot of gold was leprechaun size! LOL
The hydrangeas are beautiful.

Those are very rich looking houses Satuguru. Could see living there nicely.

I can see them being your Dad's favourites Martin, I used to grow Red-Hot Pokers, they are majestic looking and bees and butterflies love them.

Neat herd of seagulls bhs ... how did you get them all to pose like that? lol. Now you tell me the pot-o-gold was miniature! Might as well scratch those plans for a heist now ....

This isnt a very sharp photo ... it is of the B.C. Ferry Terminal in the city at Departure Bay ... the shot is taken from across the bay on the beach. The land mass you see to the left is Newcastle Island, a stones throw from us.
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It would seem that snails like the Red Hot Poker plant too:

Digitalis, one of the "poison" plants at Blarney Castle's poison garden

Here's one end of the Welsh Harp reservoir along the road from me in Hendon.

sorry I haven't posted for a while, given the old camera a break for a bit. It has been great looking at yours though. Here is a paint swirl my son did when clearing up after an art activity.
Ohhhh look at the pretty colours!

Hope those 'pretty colours' stayed pretty much where they were supposed to, Copago!!!

Great pics everyone!

Jill ,next time just take a print or two
lay a piece of paper on the swirl
Very effective
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Victorian building, Douglas, Isle of Man

A modern house in Surrey trying very hard to look old

I've been up in the attic for the last couple of days. We're having new insulation
put in so we have to clear everything out by Friday morning. Over 50 years worth!
On the plus side, we keep discovering loads of 'family treasures' and one of the
things that have brought back most memories is a book - The ABC of the RAF. It
must have belonged to my dad and was published about 1943. It's packed full of
interesting information (some of which I thought would have been top secret with
WWII still going on). There are a lot of great photographs as well. I wish I could
post the whole book! But I'll stick to the front cover:



(And the back:

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Martin, that is beautiful! What a great treasure to find!

That snail is soooo weird there, lol. Lovely colours copago. All these wonderful homes ... everything is so 'boxy' here where i live, nothing exciting like these. Digitalis is gorgeous, isn't it? Like little fairy bells, lined with leopard spots, Antiques road show coming up for your magazine .... will you still talk to us when you are a billionaire ? :P lol. Neat stuff. And i love the name of the reservoir.

The 102 leaves East Finchley station, my local one from 1965-93, and although heading to where I used to live I got the 143 heading the other way (despite being far less frequent) as it went to the top of the hill and saved me walking up.

However big London is if you go north 9 miles to Totteridge you hit the end, and it's just as same as everywhere beyond.

Another road I like in Golders Green, plenty of room in these houses as well.

Spotted this fellow taking a nap in the sun on the guardrail of my deck this afternoon.

More treasures from my attic clear-out. This is one of the plastic models
my dad made and kept. It's clear that a lot of care went into making it.



It's a 'Lago-Talbot' in case you're wondering.

Standley Chasm (Northern Territory, central Australia).

The flowers are back in what was my local park

Another of my dad's plastic models. This (if I recall correctly) is the City of Truro steam engine.