View allAll Photos Tagged flat
Welcome Back Flickr!
From The Archive - April 2018
Kustom Kulture SA Weekender
Bronica SQAi | Fujifilm Acros
"Langi Flats, a pair of apartment buildings designed by renowned architect Walter Burley Griffin, and built in 1925 & 1926, are significant at the state level for architectural and aesthetic reasons.
Walter Burley Griffin, in association with his wife Marion Mahoney, was the most remarkable and individualistic architect in Australia during his stay between 1913 and 1935. The Langi Flats are unusual in his oeuvre for displaying more of the style features of his earlier American projects, after leaving the office of Frank Lloyd Wright. Important features include the low horizontal eaves, the complex geometric decoration on the capitals of the front pylons, the decortive iron panels window spandrels and the matching gates on the north block.
The use of native trees (in this case lemon scented gums) in the front lawn displays Griffin's interest in Australian flora for suburban gardens. It is believed that Edna Walling later designed the north garden at the rear of the flats.
Aesthetically, the flats are attractive as a large, yet sensitively scaled building, with a horizontal, ground hugging emphasis, set behind sweeping lawns studded with a row of large native trees."
[National Trust Database]
What's that you're doing, Loki?
"Mapping out my plan to take over the flat."
Oh? Think you can do that?
"Yes. One toy shelf at a time."
Good luck with that, Loki.
Flat Island appears to be a misnomer, as clearly it is not surrounded by water. However it may at times be an island, if the sand spit should wash away and at the height of king tides, it may be a possibility.
Brisbane’s inner bayside suburb of Shorncliffe is a quiet retreat filled with spectacular old Queenslanders, a few flats and boarding houses and set in a lovely spot between Moreton Bay and Cabbage Tree Creek.
We found this old set of flats, obviously built in 1895 and having served several functions over its life according to the attractive sign above the door. It now appears to be flats again. If it was a cottage in its first life, certainly a big one!
It’s Thursday Door Day today. TDD, DDD
I am no expert movie maker, by a long shot, but I am having a lot of fun making these Drone videos.
I used Cyberlink's Power Director to compile this video and a ground shot, of the sun, thrown in from my Nikon DSLR.
The Flat Garden at the Portland Japanese Garden.
From japanesegarden.com :
"The Flat Garden (hira-niwa) is an example of how gardens in Japan have continued to develop the dry landscape style of the karesansui garden over time. In a garden such as this one, the designer worked to balance the relationship between the flat planes (the ground) and the volume of stones and clipped shrubbery and trees to create a sense of depth of space."
I'm gobsmacked. This was on someone's car. Evidently when they drove off, they left it behind. If your tires look like this, you're a special kind of stupid.
NEW...
Granny Flats…
My granny lived in a block of flats
three storey’s high,
I can picture it right now
and I don’t even need to try.
Frangipanis in my hand
teddy in the other,
Slowly up the many stairs
walking with my mother.
I’m staying with my granny
time that I now miss the most,
Her flat with many windows
overlooking the city to the coast.
I would hug her tight and breathe her in
and smell that granny smell,
There’s nothing that replaces it
a tear rolls, it’s just as well.
Hand in hand through the park
and down to Darby Street,
Past our favorite bench
where we would sit and rest our feet.
Talking to the grocer
memories of a time now past,
When bread was bread and milk was milk
and fruit and veg would last.
Heading back with bags now full
much slower than before,
Spending time together
always meant so much more.
Now days grow old as we do
and noon turns into night,
Till there is no city below us
just a sea of starry light.
Teddy in hand and snuggled down
between blanket and blue sheets,
The soft warmth of comfort
puts me straight to sleep.
My granny lived in a block of flats
Three storey’s high,
She would see me from her window
as wave to me goodbye.
Nutmeg knows when we are getting close to home. She figures it’s time to play the flat basset game. A 30 second walk to get home will turn into 15 minutes.
You can just make out the foghorns and Victorian isolation (cholera) hospital. There are 4 gun batteries within fortifications around the Island.
In 1897 Guglielmo Marconi broadcast the first radio / wireless signal from here which was received at Lavernock Point on the Welsh coast.
The Somerset coast is visible in the background.
stonefactionbirding2014.blogspot.com/2018/04/catch-of-day...
Osprey at the Eden estuary attempting to move its flatfish catch into a position on top of the wooden post so it can begin eating it. Photo from md-April.