Old Owl's photos

A Happy Fence Friday to one and all.

The old railway station, Albany WA.

I hope you have a Happy Fence Friday and that the day and the coming weekend are all you wish for.

HWW to everyone and let’s hope the day and rest of the week bring you joy. These three panels are but a very small part of a wall that stretches for about a kilometre and a half along both sides of the main road out of Mandurah towards Old Coast Road and down to the south. The only gap is across the newly upgraded bridge across the river. The carvings on the panels are irregular: some white, some black, some unpainted, and show different configurations of the seabirds. They act as noise baffles so that the houses adjacent to the very busy road are protected. The planners and builders didn’t need to be so artistically creative, but most of us are glad they were. Even functional walls can be fun.

A Happy Bench Monday to all. May your day and your week be as stress free as possible and as calm as you can make them. This bench and its surroundings are a gentle reminder that our southern hemisphere seasons are the opposite of yours in Europe and North America. Winter is coming in a couple of weeks ... Brrr!

Have a delightfully Happy Fence Friday. These lights illuminate the footbridge next to Southern Cross Station which leads to Docklands in Melbourne. I love the bright red colour and curved, neck-like shape. Function needn't be boring.

HWW to everyone. This is an interior wall of the Rustic Spoon café in Fremantle, a favourite haunt of She (Who Must Be Obeyed) and myself. She chooses; I obey. Have a great day and rest of the working week.

Princes Bridge, Yarra River, Melbourne.

Happy Bench Monday. I hope your day goes well. This was once the railway station for the township of Goomalling in the Western Australia Wheatbelt. The passenger railway closed back in the 1970s, though the line still carries grain for the CBH silos. The station became (or was in 2022) a café, though I believe it may be something else now. There are less than 500 people in Goomalling and only a few visitors these days. Tempus fugits (as my mum used to say).

A Happy Fence Friday to all. Hope it's a good day and leads to a fabulous weekend.

Have a wonderfully Happy Wednesday Wall. Have a good day and rest of the week, enjoying as many moments as you can.

Benny's, Fremantle

Happy Bench Monday to all. I hope your day and your week are OK. I'm not sure this is really uninviting. I remember taking this picture in the dim and distant past of 2012, and it being a cold and miserable late spring day in Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland. We sat and shivered as only southern softie Western Australians do when faced with temperatures below 20°C, but we enjoyed the misty view and the empty sea. And looking back to 2012 I'm nostalgic for a more innocent, seemingly peaceful time when the future seemed to promise good things ...

For CWP: “Clouds”. This is Pussycat Hill, overlooking Dumbleyung Lake in WA. This was the best vantage point to watch Donald Campbell break the world water speed record on New Year’s Eve 1964, when he reached a speed of 276.3 miles per hour in his boat, Bluebird. There’s a memorial there now. At the exact day and time each year (3.43 pm 31st December) a beam of sunlight shines through a hole in the rock of the memorial and onto a model of the boat. Meanwhile the clouds watch over it.

A Happy Fence Friday to one and all. May your day be either calm or exciting (depending on your preference), and your weekend be just as you like it.