Its a week now since I first set foot on Ozzie soil, but have been out taking pics every single day so am working flat out just to get them all online! The crows are talking loadly over head, as I sit in a quiet suburb of Melbourne – Aspendale – where where my niece and her parents have kindly welcomed me into their home for a few weeks.
The sky is a perfect blue, the sun pleasantly warm overhead, but the evenings are chilly like England. The hardy grass lawn beneath my feet and super-tidy neighbourhood is peacefully suburban – except for the neighbour mowing his patch of grass with an industrial noise-machine!
Socrates, is cooking Octopus outside on a lttle camping stove. Just had a taste too – mmmm!
Just eaten the results of Greek chef’s cooking!
and finished off with fresh ripe figs from the tree in the garden
Out of approx 1000 images shot so far here in Australia, its hard to know which ones to show you first. They’re all online in the “travel pictures worldwide destinations” section of our galleries, or via this link below…
http://www.reellifephotos.silkstream.org/online/index.php?category=Travel+pictures+world+wide+destinations
Two things strike me in this area: the rows of individually designed mail boxes and the diversity of trees, from Eucalyptus, to Tea Tree, She Oaks, Banksias and many my limited botanical knowledge fails to identify. If anyone who know more specific names reads this please forgive my ignorance in advance!
Aussie trees in and around Edithvale Wetlands in Aspendale: Eucalyptus – so many varieties I cannot be more specific! I just take photos…