Old Owl's photos

May 1st celebrates the workers who toil by both hand and brain. Let us stay united and refuse to tolerate those who seek to divide us. Have a wonderful May Day.

Southern Cross station, Melbourne. (Press Z to see bigger.)

Enjoy Happy Wednesday Wall. This is under the Princes Bridge over the Yarra in Melbourne. Have a lovely day and rest-of-the-week.

A Happy Bench Monday to all. I hope your day and your week are fine. (Commiserations to all LUFC supporters on losing the FA Cup semi-final this weekend.)

May I wish everyone a Happy Fence Friday. I have no idea why this building is called "Magnolia". Perhaps the designer was a Grateful Dead or J.J. Cale fan. Whatever, I like the symmetry.

Spencer Street, Melbourne. (Best seen big on black. Please press Z..)

For this relief, much thanks. A Happy Wednesday Wall to everyone. i hope your day and your week go swimmingly (but no swimming in here).

A bench by the Yarra River in Southbank, Melbourne. A Happy Bench Monday to all. I hope your day and your week are safe and pleasant.

May I wish everyone a Happy Wednesday Wall. Have a fine remainder of the week where you take care of yourselves and everyone you meet.

May I wish you a Happy Bench Monday. I hope you have time to sit and think or read or watch the world or whatever it is you do to relax. Sitting doing nothing (and avoiding doom-scrolling the news) is a very useful way of coping with the stresses of the present. I hope you can manage this amidst your normal day-to-day. Have a great day and a lovely week.

Have a Happy (Fishing) Fence Friday. The long Busselton Jetty is used for walking on, fishing from, jumping in and diving from, and just enjoying being almost 2 km out in the Indian Ocean. I hope your day and your weekend are fabulous and calm. Ours promises to be wet and windy with Tropical Cyclone Narelle bearing down on the Central and Lower West of WA. I hope she gets bored and calms down before she reaches this far south.

My reason for visiting Albany was to see the “Lighting the Sound” installation by the Finnish light artist, Kari Kola in conjunction with elders of the Menang people of the area. The lights were along Frenchman Bay Road and viewing was from the area around the Anzac Peace Park and the foreshore of the town. Thus the lights seen here are about 5km from the viewers. These colours are from the first of three weekend showings. As I understand it, weekend 2 and 3 are/were different. Strangely, the best picture we took was not from any of our three Canon DSLR cameras nor from my 40MP FujifilmX-T5 but from a humble old iPhone. Go figure, hey?

Have a Happy Wednesday, a great day and a fine rest of the week. HWW to all.

Happy Bench Monday to all. I can vouch for the hardness of this bench outside the Albany Entertainment Centre. Have a ripper day and a fine week.

The hills above Torndirrup and Frenchman Bay Road in Albany WA, as seen from by the Anzac Peace Park and across Princess Royal Harbour. (Pressing Z will make it grow.)

Have the best Happy Fence Friday you can. Take care of you and everyone you meet (even if you don't really like them. Just pretend for a short while; it won't hurt you.) Have a great day and a fine weekend.