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Spring has finally sprung in Melbourne, and with more mild and sunny days and some recent heavy rain, the gardens of Melbourne's suburbs have awoken from their winter slumbers and burst into an array of beautiful colours in many different floral forms. This included my own, where the roses are starting to bud and bloom.
The Gold Medal hybrid tea rose was first bred in 1982 in the United States by Jack Christensen, and later introduced to market by Armstrong Nursery. Jack is the youngest rose breeder to develop an All-American rose and he is credited with hybridizing over eighty different types of roses. This rose was created by crossing elements from the roses Granada, Garden Party, and Yellow Pages. The result is a gorgeous yellowish rose that has rich copper accents, that ultimately fades to a soft cream color.
The old fashioned way of waiting to speak to someone on the phone... put the handset on the table... shout for who is ever wanting.... and wait for them to get to the phone. How quaint.
From an ongoing series of Black and White photos exploring a now outdated and almost forgotten technology in and around the Toronto Canada area.
On Islington Ave north of Bloor St W.
Original photography using a Canon EOS 60D body with a Sigma 17-70mm f2.8 DC Macro OS lens and Silver EFEX Pro as a Lightroom plugin for the Black and White conversion.
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This is a sign proudly proclaiming Yorky, a small steam engine built in 1901 by Savage Brothers of King’s Lynn, now restored and used to power the historic Excelsior Steam Yachts ride at Carter’s Steam Fair. Originally part of Waddington’s fairground setup, Yorky was later salvaged by showman Harry Lee before being sold to Carter’s in the early 1980s as a replacement for the original engine lost to scrap. With its compact design, polished brass, and tall funnel, Yorky is both a mechanical heart and a visual centrepiece beneath the ride’s platform.
Yorky drives two elegantly swinging boats—Britannia and Columbia—which arc dramatically into the air as the engine pistons build momentum. This rare example of a working steam-powered fairground engine not only preserves a piece of Edwardian engineering but brings it vividly to life. Still running on steam more than a century later, Yorky stands as a living reminder of the travelling showmen’s era, when steam power moved, lit, and thrilled the fairground.
The other week, I was on a stroll on a rather summery March day, when a rose bush covered in blooms in multiple colours caught my eye so much that I had to cross a busy road to take a closer look at it. The single bush was displaying roses in shades of pale yellow with pink edges, vibrant pink, carmine and orange. Luckily I had my camera with me, as I usually do in case I see something I like, and I photographed some of the blooms. Whilst I was doing so, the owner returned home from shopping. We chatted and I asked her what variety it was. She said that she didn’t know, but that it had been part of the garden when she bought the house some two decades ago. After doing a bit of research, I think it might be a Desert Peace rose.
The theme for “Smile on Saturday” is “Flowers in March”, where any flower is welcome, so long as the photo was taken in March. Luckily in Melbourne, there are often Indian Summer days that stretch into March, and there are always flowers in gardens. I could have chosen any flowers, but I chose this one in particular for its beauty, and because I saw it on the 16th of March, which was the day I saw the theme in the discussion thread. This week’s theme is also in honour of “Smile on Saturday” member, Marcy Schrum, who passed away in December last year. She liked beautiful flowers, so I hope she would have liked it and that it makes a fitting tribute. I hope that you like it too, that it brightens your Saturday and makes you smile.
The “Desert Peace” rose is a hybrid tea rose with yellow blend blooms, with pink edges. It was produced by Meilland International in France in 1991.
Fun with Photoshop. I took the image of E and I from Stable Diffusion and spent a good part of the day using photoshop to make another "Found Novel" book cover.
GUIMARÃES (Portugal): Centro Ciência Viva de Guimarães.
O Centro Ciência Viva de Guimarães – Curtir Ciência (uma alusão direta à tradição dos curtumes) ocupa o espaço da antiga Fábrica Âncora, em frente à Loja dos Registos, na Zona de Couros. Inaugurado a 17 de dezembro de 2015, o equipamento conta com uma exposição permanente com cerca de duas dezenas de módulos de sete áreas do conhecimento.
Edifício com história devolvido às pessoas
A antiga Fábrica Âncora apresenta-se como um ícone da tipologia construtiva de Couros, sendo um edifício de referência. Em 1269, foi constituída em Guimarães a Confraria de Sapataris, que terá estado na origem, em 1315, da Irmandade de S. Crispim e S. Crispiniano, fundada pelos mestres sapateiros João Baião e Pero Baião, que dotaram logo a instituição de uma fonte de rendimento ao legarem uma poça de curtumes na Rua de Couros, com sete pias de pedra.
A zona foi densamente povoada, tendo outrora faltado muitas vezes casas para as famílias operárias. A importância que então ostentava a atividade dos curtumes persiste ainda hoje em manifestações culturais vimaranenses. É o caso da Peregrinação Anual à Penha, uma das maiores celebrações religiosas do concelho que teve origem numa iniciativa de curtidores e surradores.
info: A inauguração – Centro Ciência Viva. ccvguimaraes.pt/a-inauguracao/. Acedido 7 de Dezembro de 2021.
Old telephone kiosk situated near the shopping centre car park.
Betws-y-coed is a village and community in the Conwy valley in Conwy County Borough, Wales, located in the historic county of Caernarfonshire, right on the boundary with Denbighshire, in the Gwydir Forest. It is now a very popular visitor destination in the Snowdonia National Park.
The theme for “Smile on Saturday” is “bokeh in monotone”, where any monochrome photo that features bokeh may be used. I went out into my garden for this shot. We have had a very mild summer the sunny days of which have bled into Autumn, which gave me a wonderful opportunity to capture some bokeh in my silver birch tree. The rose is actually a Papa Meilland, and us a very deep red colour. As I had my choice of colours, I decided to use a restful green to reflect the green in my garden. I did also try this in red, but I didn’t like it as much. I hope you like my choice, that it brightens your Saturday and makes you smile.
Papa Meilland is a magnificent French hybrid tea rose. Named in honour of a Doyen in the rose breeding world by his Grandson, the now famous Allain Meilland, Papa Meilland has dark, velvety crimson coloured petals and a magnificent, strong, old rose fragrance. This rose was bred in France and introduced in 1963. I have two of these bushes in my front garden, and although white roses are my favourite type of rose, the Papa Meilland rose would come a very close second!
Old fashioned magnolia - many-petaled (and even a bit tatty looking), beautiful light perfume. Many in our area are looking very small and stunted - probably as a result on the ongoing drought, so it was nice to see these healthy-looking ones. The port-wine magnolias are very beautiful too, but I have yet to get a reasonable picture.
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Vintage Texaco gas station in Driftwood, Texas with a stone building and old-fashioned red gas pump.
My Papa Meilland rose has been preparing to burst forth beautiful fragrant blooms for several days now, and then the first one finally opened up. Now I know that spring is finally here. It looks like I will have a fine showing looking at all the buds about to burst out in the first flush of blooms.
Papa Meilland is a magnificent French hybrid tea rose. Named in honour of a Doyen in the rose breeding world by his Grandson, the now famous Allain Meilland, Papa Meilland has dark, velvety crimson coloured petals and a magnificent, strong, old rose fragrance. This rose was bred in France and introduced in 1963. I have two of these bushes in my front garden, and although white roses are my favourite type of rose, the Papa Meilland rose would come a very close second!
Spring has finally come to Melbourne, and everywhere, gardens are bursting forth with beautiful coloured blooms in a profusion of colours after a wetter than usual winter.
I saw this at Greenfield Village… a lot of gears! It looks like a belt drives the main gear, which then in turn turns the gears connected to the wheels.
My wife also deduced that the word “tractor” may actually be derived from this “traction machine”.
Went to the Steaming Tender restaurant in Palmer, Massachusetts for lunch today. Delicious food in a the delightful atmosphere of an old railway station. These old fashioned shoeshine seats grace the front entry.
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Just playing around with some textures to hid some distractions in this photo of our grape hyacinths.
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Трёхэтажный доходный дом Крылова, возведённый в самом начале ХХ века по ул. Ефремова, 18. в Симферополе.
The three-story Krylov revenue house built at the beginning of the XX century at 18 Yefremov Street in Simferopol (the capital of the Republic of Crimea, Russia).
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Old barn and windmill outside Troy Grove,IL. Troy Grove was the birthplace of Wild Bill Hickok. His father had the first general store in the fledgling town in the 1830's. After his father passed away at an early age,James Butler Hickok stayed in the town to help his family till the store failed and they left the area in the early 1850's....
Papa Meilland is a magnificent French hybrid tea rose. Named in honour of a Doyen in the rose breeding world by his Grandson, the now famous Allain Meilland, Papa Meilland has dark, velvety crimson coloured petals and a magnificent, strong, old rose fragrance. This rose was bred in France and introduced in 1963. I have two of these bushes in my front garden, and although white roses are my favourite type of rose, the Papa Meilland rose would come a very close second!
Melbourne had a very good start to summer with not too many burning hot days and lots of rain, which means that the autumn flowers now about are simply glorious. This includes a final show of autumnal blooms in my rose garden as the leaves start to change colour and fall from the bushes.
Came across this reminder of yesteryear set among a modern windfarm. We'll see if these modern "windmills" last as long as this old beauty has.
Happy windmill Wednesday all!
Interesting old-fashioned fencing on a farm in late autumn.I found the linear movement of wood and shadows added to the perspective.
Cape Neddick Light "The Nubble" York Beach, Maine
On it's maiden voyage, the Isidore set sail in the late autumn of 1842, headed for New Orleans with fifteen local sailors on board. After only a few miles, the crew ran into a fierce northeaster storm which sunk the ship and 400 tons of cargo. History says that all on board perished, though local legends tell of one frightened man who washed ashore alive. Visitors to Cape Neddick sometimes report seeing the ghostly ship still sailing through the storms.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
“There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson.
The theme for “Looking Close… on Friday” on the 12th of February is “roses”. I thought this perfect “Black Magic” rose bloom with her velvety petals, taken in the Alister Clarke Rose Garden of the St Kilda Botanical Gardens in Melbourne, was the right choice. I think she is very beautiful, and represents the shape, form and rich colour that make roses such a favourite flower.
The “Black Magic” rose is loved worldwide for its fascinating deep, dark red, almost black coffee coloured velvety petals and continuous flowering. The blooms are a classic rose shape with a high pointed centre. “Black Magic” is one of very few red roses to produce excellent blooms during our hot summers. “Black Magic” was bred and introduced by Tantau in 1997. Rosen Tantau, located in Northern Germany, has been breeding roses successfully for more than a century. One of its specialties is the creation of Hybrid Tea Roses suitable for the garden and cut flower industry. Black Magic has become very popular around the world as one of the best deep red roses which is relatively disease resistant and produces many quality flowers throughout the entire season.
The St Kilda Botanical Gardens are a very beautiful place to visit, not least for all for their wonderful array of roses found in the Alister Clarke Rose Garden. The site of the St Kilda Botanical Gardens were established in the 1800's. The municipal council petitioned the Department of Lands and Survey to make this segment of land bordered by Dickens Street, Tennyson Street and Blessington Street a Botanic Garden. The gardens were formally established in 1859 when a boundary fence was erected. By 1907 significant donations of money and plant material had led to the establishment of a rosary, extensive flower beds and a nursery. Exotic forest trees were planted during the 1870s and Australian species were included in 1932. In the 1950s the Alister Clarke Rose Garden was established and a Sub-Tropical Rain-forest conservatory added in the early 1990's.