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Sunday, 18 September 2022
Sunday, 11 September 2022
DESKTOP 3325 - DIAMOND VALLEY VIEW
Diamond Valley is an outer suburb of Melbourne. Far enough from the City to be like being in the countryside, yet near enough to be near all the big city amenities, conveniences and services.
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Sunday, 4 September 2022
DESKTOP 3318 - SPRING LANDSCAPE
Spring landscape with a carpet of yellow Oxalis stricta, called the common yellow woodsorrel.
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Sunday, 28 August 2022
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Sunday, 14 August 2022
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Sunday, 31 July 2022
Sunday, 17 July 2022
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Sunday, 29 May 2022
DESKTOP 3222 - SPIRAL ALOE
Aloe polyphylla (spiral aloe, kroonaalwyn, lekhala kharetsa) is a species in the genus Aloe and family Xanthorrhoeaceae that is endemic to the Kingdom of Lesotho in the Drakensberg mountains. It is well known for its strikingly symmetrical, five-pointed spiral growth habit.
Aloe polyphylla is a stemless aloe and grows its leaves in a very distinctive spiral shape. The plants do not seem to sucker or produce off-shoots, but from the germination of their seeds they can form small, dense clumps. The fat, wide, serrated, gray-green leaves have sharp, dark leaf-tips. This aloe flowers at the beginning of summer, producing red-to-pink flowers at the head of robust, branched inflorescences.
The species is highly sought after as an ornamental but is difficult to cultivate and usually soon dies if removed from its natural habitat. In South Africa, buying or collecting the plant is a criminal offence.
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and also part of the Photo Sunday meme.
Sunday, 22 May 2022
Sunday, 15 May 2022
DESKTOP 3208 - SPENT
Empty receptacle of a Protea flower, which has released all of its seeds.
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Sunday, 17 April 2022
DESKTOP 3180 - ZEN
A corner of our garden where a meditating Buddha encourages us to be calm and relaxed, taking city life in our stride. Zen (also Zen Buddhism) noun [mass noun] is a Japanese school of Mahayana Buddhism emphasising the value of meditation and intuition rather than ritual worship or study of scriptures.
Zen Buddhism was introduced to Japan from China in the 12th century, and has had a profound cultural influence. The aim of Zen is to achieve sudden enlightenment (satori) through meditation in a seated posture (zazen), usually under the guidance of a teacher and often using paradoxical statements (koans) to transcend rational thought.
ORIGIN Japanese, literally ‘meditation’, from Chinese chán ‘quietude’, from Sanskrit dhyāna ‘meditation’.
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Sunday, 10 April 2022
DESKTOP 3173 - FIBRES
A photomicrograph (photograph taken through a microscope) of the cellulose fibres making up a sheet of lens cleaning paper, magnified about 100 times. The image has been pseudocolourised with LUT (look up table) corresponding to intensity of light transmission.
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Sunday, 3 April 2022
DESKTOP 3166 - VICTORIANA
Many a Melbourne house in the inner city is original Victorian, complete with ironwork lace balconies and sculptural architectural decorations.
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Sunday, 27 March 2022
DESKTOP 3159 - COLEUS
Coleus is a genus of annual or perennial herbs or shrubs, sometimes succulent, sometimes with a fleshy or tuberous rootstock, found in the Old World tropics and subtropics. Coleus are cultivated as ornamental plants, particularly Coleus scutellarioides (syns. Coleus blumei, Plectranthus scutellarioides), which is popular as a garden plant for its brightly coloured foliage.
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Sunday, 20 March 2022
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