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Showy Blossoms
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PostSun Sep 28, 2025 12:05 pm
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I took this picture at the Queens Park in Toowoomba last Wednesday. Toowoomba is currently celebrating its Carnival of Flowers. The plant, like the cherry blossom, belongs to the genus ‘prunus’, but this is prunus persica or commonly known as flowering peach. It is well-suited to the Toowoomba region and is found in local gardens and streetscapes. These ornamental trees are known for their vibrant blossoms that appear in early spring, often before the leaves emerge.

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Mens’ urinals
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This urinal and a few like it are on the first floor of the d’Arenberg Cube, the work started in 2014 and finished in 2017. The building has five stories and it is in the middle of vineyards. The exhibition rooms have bronze sculptures and artworks on loan from the Salvador Dali Universe in Switzerland, as well as from other artists.

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Clock tower
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PostSat Sep 06, 2025 7:11 pm
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The construction of the Brisbane Central Station commenced in 1899. Queensland Railways took over the new station from the contractors on 26 July 1901 and was one of Brisbane’s grandest buildings. It had been built in Victorian architectural style with extensive detailing, and with a clock tower designed by John James Clark.

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The Forbidden City
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PostSun Aug 24, 2025 1:53 pm
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This imperial palace complex in the centre of Beijing, China. It was the residence of 24 Ming and Qing dynasty Emperors. I was the centre of political power in China for over 500 years from 1420 to 1924. The Anglo-French forces took control of the palace and occupied it until the end of the war in 1860 in the Second Opium War. The Empress Dowager Cixi fled from the Forbidden City during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, leaving it to be occupied by forces of the treaty powers. After being the home of 24 emperors — 14 of the Ming dynasty and 10 of ...
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Nightfall
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PostSun Aug 17, 2025 1:19 pm
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Dining at Saltwater restaurant in Phillip Island and looking across the peer and waters beyond towards San Remo. San Remo is a coastal town in southern Victoria (Australia) and it is at the western tip of the Anderson Peninsula in the West Gippsland region. It is at one end of the Phillip Island Bridge, the only roadway onto Phillip Island.

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Francisco Pizarro
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PostSun Aug 10, 2025 12:44 pm
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Pizarro was born in Trujillo, Spain, to a poor family. Pizarro accompanied Vasco Núñez de Balboa in his crossing of the Isthmus of Panama, and became one of the first Europeans to see the Pacific Ocean from the Americas. Later, Pizarro conquered Peru on his third expedition. Pizarro captured the Inca emperor Atahualpa at the Battle of Cajamarca in November 1532, and he demanded a ransom for the emperor's release. Atahualpa’s people filled a room with gold and two with silver, but Pizarro charged him with 12 crimes and garrotted him in July ...
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Cocido madrileño (Madrilenian stew)
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PostSun Aug 03, 2025 6:41 pm
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This Madrilenian stew is a traditional chickpea-based stew associated with the Madrid region. It is most popular as Sunday lunch during the winter. Long-cooking cocidos are thought to be derived from Sephardic adafina recipes. Societal discrimination against conversos (Jewish people who became to Catholics) in early Modern Iberia and the subsequent fear of being denounced as a crypto-Jew favoured the incorporation of pork into meals. Soon lard, bacon, chorizo (pork sausage) and morcilla (blood sausage) were added to the dish.

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Traboules
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PostSat Jul 26, 2025 7:01 pm
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The word ‘traboules’ is a corruption of the Latin ‘trans-ambulare’, or ‘to pass through’, dating back to the 4th century, allowing folk more direct access to the town’s fresh water source than the winding streets provided. Lyon’s secret covered passageways, or traboules, are an ideal way of visiting the city’s hidden and colourful past. Every traboule is different though. Each has a unique pastel colour, a particular curve or spiral staircase, vaulted ceilings or Renaissance arches. Some have counted as many as 400 traboules i ...
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Knights and squires
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PostSun Jul 20, 2025 12:25 pm
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In Spain, as in other parts of medieval Europe, knights were mounted warriors of noble birth who received formal training in arms and warfare. Squires were young men, also of noble birth, who served as attendants to knights, assisting them with their equipment, horses, and daily needs, while also receiving training in arms themselves. I took the picture in Avila (Spain) when we visited a Medieval Market.

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Graffiti
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PostSun Jul 13, 2025 5:22 pm
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Modern graffiti began in the New York City subway system and Philadelphia in the early 1970s and later spread to the rest of the United States and throughout the world. Melbourne is renowned for its street art (graffiti), and pop culture. I took the picture of this week at the AC/DC Lane in Melbourne, its message is raw and very relevant to current world events.

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Cave
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PostSun Jul 13, 2025 5:20 pm
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This particular cave is one of the many wind caves in Uluru (Ayers Rock). These caves are typically rather shallow. Overhanging rocks, shelters which have been used by the Australian aborigines of the area since time inmemorial. The caves are cool, provide shadow and sometimes have springs or some remains of the last rain.

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Casual encounter
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PostSun Jun 29, 2025 6:25 pm
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The picture of this week falls into documentary photography. It is an unusual street scene. A young guy with two cats in his shoulders walks casually along the street as it is the most natural thing in the world. Three young ladies stops him and talks to him in an Asian language and one of his cats watch the women with intense curiosity.

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