Luke and I had a grand day out today. We went to Williamstown for lunch and a wander about and then to St Kilda for more wandering about. It was a beautiful sunny day...but I'm too tired to tell you all about it tonight. To tide you over until tomorrow, here's a another video of a seagull being silly.
Actually, I think it's stirring up tidbits to eat from the muddy shallows, so it's probably a very sensible seagull that just looks silly.
I walked home through the Botanic Gardens for the first time since daylight savings started. My camera got a work out, as usual. I made another video too (see right down below).
Furry
This flower is an absolute jaw-dropper. It's the only one
on the bush and it's almost the size of a saucer.
Anyone know what it is? It's in the Chinese garden section.
Huge leaf getting ready to unfurl...
...into one of these
My photo doesn't really capture how lovely it is to stand
under the canopy of this tree on a sunny afternoon
Look at that root system!
Delicate little orchid
I know these as dragon bells (or something like that)
Veiny underside
Another one of these flowers. What are they called?
Something bonnets?
Iris bud
And a purple one
And now for my (very amateurish) video. It was a little breezy, but this leaf was waving about like crazy. It must have wanted me to take its photo. Me! Me! Take my photo! (Listen for the bell birds!)
I walked home on the south side of the river after work and spied a group of seagulls acting all silly in the shallows near the boatsheds.
I've seen seagulls doing this in the same spot before, so they must really get a kick out of it. This time I decided to video them. This is the first video I've ever uploaded to my blog. I'm impressed with myself for working out how to upload my own video. OK, it's not that hard, but YouTube did email me to congratulate me on uploading my first video, so I'm gonna be impressed with myself just for a bit. I think I might do it more often.
I found out how much I should get back on my tax. I'm rather pleased (that's called intaxification), although I'm trying to keep a lid on it since I'm yet to find out how much interest I have to pay in relation to an investment.
