Monday, October 10, 2016

Friday wanderings

Luke and I had a pleasant day out in the Dandenongs on Friday. We visited two gardens and two waterfalls and had lunch at a (former) piggery. 

I'd often seen pictures of the Alfred Nicholas Memorial Gardens on Instagram and thought we should go for a look, so we did. Then we spotted the George Tindale Memorial Garden just a few hundred metres down the road, so we had a look at that too. 

The Piggery Cafe is just next door to the Alfred Nicholas gardens and we had a quick lunch there. We said hello to the two pigs who live in the grounds (until they end up as lunch, I guess. I think they might have an (o)inkling of their fate because they were not as happy as pigs in mud are supposed to be. They seemed pretty glum.) 

Anyway, here are my photos (out of order but *shrug*):

 On the walk to Sherbrooke Falls


 Mossy log on  Sherbrooke Falls walk


 Even the fungus had moss on it


 Moss

 Sherbrooke Falls (or, more accurately, Sherbrooke Rapids)


 Conifer at George Tindale Memorial Gardens


 Succulent at George Tindale Memorial Gardens


 One of several lovely old lamps at George Tindale Memorial Gardens


 The pigs at The Piggery (yes, he's peeing; no, that's not why I took the photo)


 Bee watering hole in the trunk of a tree fern

 There were a lot of hellebore at both gardens 


 Bugs


 Both gardens also have a lot of azaleas which are a riot of colour right now


 Another hellebore


 Very big insect (the leaf  is bigger than my hand)


 More fungus


 The lake at Alfred Nicholas Memorial Gardens

 The lake again


 I took A LOT of photos of the hellebore


 Curly leaf thing


Another leaf



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