The lone minstrel..

I spotted the gentleman above playing his guitar from a distance, it wasn't until we got much closer that I realised he was singing also. What a perfectly peaceful place to strum and hum. I think he sensed our presence so we walked quietly past so as not to intrude. If I was going sing this is where it would be.. for quite different reasons :) Hope you are enjoying your weekend, happy Sunday, take care and stay safe..

A quiet place..

When the news, social media, computers are interfering with my peace of mind, a walk in the great outdoors is an enjoyable way to clear the head and restore the equilibrium. There are a few ways to approach the walk around Floreat Lakes this way was a first for us, it definitely won't be the last. Isn't it  pretty. Possibly because it was a mid-week morning it was just we and the birds, lots of birds. It's possible I'm not done with this walk :) more tomorrow. What do you do to restore the balance? Bon weekend, take care and stay safe..

 
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With a little help from my friend..

Always on the lookout for a new view of the city.. the Australian darter above, after swimming underwater across the lake, climbed out onto the grass, spread his wings to dry off, twisted his astoundingly bendy neck to look directly at me as if he was alerting me to the view 'there you go mate, no worries' 😉 Robert Lynd said 'in order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence'.. I'm working on it :) Happy Friday, take care and stay safe.. 

Gelato with Gusto..

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, 

wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating! 

There really is no such thing as bad weather..

only different kinds of good weather.. John Ruskin

Yesterday was ice-cream kind of weather in Perth, a gentle hint that official summer is just days away. Ice cream from Gusto Gelato at Elizabeth Quay is a delicious way to prepare for the much warmer days ahead. When you put together a post do you sometimes feel a sense of déjà vu? Guess when you do a almost daily blog it's bound to happen 🍨 Happy Thursday, take care and stay safe.. P.s. BIG catch-up today.

Row like there's no tomorrow!

A few weekends ago during Open House Perth we stopped in to the West Australian Rowing Club, here next to Barrack Square since 1906. The WARC, the last rowing club remaining on the Perth city foreshore, was almost demolished in the 1960's, surviving only to fall into disrepair (see middle pic below) in 1990. After serious rallying saved the club it was put on the Register of Heritage Places in 2001 as 'highly significant as the last remaining building representing a diversity of recreational, social, industrial and transportation activities carried out on the river and foreshore during the first one hundred years of the colony.' Phew!

Apart from the amazing views the old photos above were a highlight for me..

Looking down Riverside Drive below..

Looking out to South Perth below and over to the cafes and restaurants at Barrack Street Jetty, and yes Andrew the Lucky Shag is still there :)

Below glimpses of glimpses..

Here looking back to the city and Rubra On The Swan, not too shabby a spot to have breakfast! Hope you're having a good week, happy Wednesday, take care and stay safe..

Subi randoms..

Often while exploring lanes in the city and suburbs I come across random pieces of unsigned art that I feel should get recognition for the work that goes into them. Found in Subiaco the paste-up above is intriguingly intricate.. a space invader or insect of the worldly kind.. who knows but meticulously done. The adapted crack in an old wall just made me smile, I mean, I would have been tempted to do the same :) Happy Tuesday, take care and stay safe..

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Jacarandas.. yeh or nay!

 Walking through the Supreme Court Gardens last week I couldn't resist a quick shot of the two ladies scooping up fallen jacaranda flowers to shower over the young lady, while the photographer snapped away.. the young boy to the left of the shot looking a little bemused by it all :) How do you feel about jacarandas? Read here how Hamish Hastie feels about the, not native to Australia jacarandas, made me laugh out loud 'in the jacaranda suburbs a nice Sunday of naked gardening is off the cards with all those drones buzzing overhead'. He does have a point. The pic below taken on the same day in my garden of the Australian native bottlebrush tree, it has it's own charm, especially as right now it is chock a block with rainbow lorikeets hanging like jewels from the branches.. you will have to take my word that here were two on this very branch seconds before I took the shot :) Happy Monday, take care and stay safe..