We grew enough cucumbers to make pickles. Small achievements of the home gardener.

Sunflowers also grew well in Ripponlea.

The ol’ frangipani seems to have survived the shift from St Kilda to Ripponlea almost a year ago. It is also blooming in this post-summer humidity. I also learnt that the term ‘Indian summer’ is not actually from the sub-continent, but some ...

Viking-haunched aviator selects prey from the dusk buffet. Australasian White-faced Heron, Gippsland Lakes.
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Mining Exchange building façade (1888), Ballarat, Victoria.
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Stamp dispenser, Old Clunes Post Office, Clunes, Victoria.
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