Much About Melbourne

I went into the city Friday afternoon and just randomly shot photos around our lovely city.  I wanted to share them with you here. Above from the top row:L-R: A man and his dog.  You often see people sitting around the city. Two horses posing for their photo.  We have many horse drawn carriages for [...]

I went down to Oaklands Junction today to watch the horses being paraded before potential buyers before the Premier Yearling sales open on Sunday 1st March.  Christine (daughter) invited me as she knows how much her mum loves using her camera!  So I thought I’d share some of the photos here with you.  Only some [...]

The latest fire has hit quite close to home for us.  Graham and I were only at Birdsland Reserve in Belgrave on 14th February and you can see some of my photos at my photoblog.  Today there is a fire tearing its way through the park and heading towards houses that we had only been [...]

I’ve been looking for things relating to the city and state I live in and then realised there should be some emblems.  A quick search soon proved that to be true and here they are: The emblems of Victoria include… Floral emblem: Pink Heath Animal emblem: Leadbeater’s Possum Bird emblem: Helmeted Honey-eater Marine Faunal Emblem: [...]

I remember as a kid watching the news on TV about the Moomba Festival in Melbourne and all the festivities. How I wished my life were more exciting and things like that happened where I lived at the time.  It seemed like everyone who was famous and well known did not live anywhere near me [...]