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Catching up

 I spent Thursday in the wonderful company of a very old friend of mine.  Melbourne is her home town but she lives up in Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, so I was lucky to have the opportunity to meet up with her again on this trip.  We always just pick up where we left off last time we were together.  A lovely, happy, easy friendship which enabled us to chat and catch up while mooching around the city, finding lovely things to see and admire, including our joint enjoyment of street art/graffiti as well as having a very good lunch, and some extremely yummy cake and jasmine tea later in the afternoon.

This is the interior of a blissful florist shop called Pollon, in the city centre.
Hosier Lane, in the city centre, is a mecca for street artists and there is always a crowd of people, mostly tourists, browsing the latest work.  
  There was a tribute to Stan Lee, the superhero of Marvel Comics, who died recently.
1 December will herald the end of an Australian spring and the start of summer.  That also means Christmas is not far away and the street decorations are up in the city centre.  I have to admit to feeling rather underwhelmed by them!
From the city centre we jumped on a tram and headed for the back streets of Fitzroy, which always has lots of lovely things to discover.
The Chinese star jasmine, Tracheospermum jasminoidies, is flowering in Melbourne at the moment.  Its cloud of white flowers sends wafts of delicious fragrance down the street.
 This pretty thing is the delicate flower of the Chinese woodland iris, Iris henryi
Seed pods of the jacaranda tree.
 The papery bark of the tea-tree tree, Melaleuca alternifolia.
My favourite graffiti can be found on corrugated iron.  The ripples of the material soften down the images and I think becomes rather beautiful.


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  1. Liz Mc25 November 2018 at 10:51

    Just loving your snaps of my childhood city. I now live near Geelong. Still getting over your photo yesterday of capeweed (last photo). Awful weed. My mother in law would give this new bride from the city, her homemade butter. When the cow was nibbling on capeweed the taint was overpowering and passed on to anything I cooked with it. Hope you are here for a long stay and I look forward to the images. Liz

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    1. the running wave25 November 2018 at 20:44

      Thanks Liz! Lovely to get your message and I am glad you enjoy my photos! Sorry about the capeweed! I saw it growing along the verge and it reminded me of our celandine at home, and as wild flowers are my passion I had to find out what it was. My Coffs Harbour friend put me straight! She used to make daisy chains with them when she was a little girl. This is a 3 week visit for me, to see my son and his family. It is flying by! Amanda

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