Out of work and there are no jobs…let’s go to King’s Park and get out of the house. Technically it’s winter here, and it’s kinda hard for a Marylander to think of going to the park on a winters day, and to see flower yet? But find flowers we did,...
Anzac Day marks the anniversary of the first campaign that led to major casualties for Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War. The acronym ANZAC stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, whose soldiers were known as Anzacs. Anzac Day remains one of the most important...
John and I got up early on Saturday, on a brisk Western Australia morning and headed for the King’s Park plant sale in hopes of getting a pink fairy orchid of our very own. We were early as the area hadn’t opened its gates yet, we waited in a growing...
So I wanted to see more of the new part of Perth, the Elizabeth Quay, the walking bridge and anything else new in the area. So we made plans to see a few sights, do some shopping, and hang around for sunset. As we walked around, there was a new...
Kings Park was having a plant sale, and after a day at the Royal Show, it seemed like a nice, relaxing thing to do after church. And it was. So we bought some plants for our garden, and then we went for a stroll, around a different part of Kings...
Kings Park has a Wildflower Festival each year. Everlasting flowers were so last year I kept telling myself. This year would be about the exotic orchids. One peak of those paper daisies in the wild just made me long to see them again at the Wildflower Festival, as well as...
The Wildflower show event was still going, but we saw some flowers on the paths outside of the main event.
(For Silas and RubÃ) For ages now, I have spoiled my two grandchildren with mints. Even my last trip back from Australia, I was sure to bring back lots of mints as well as left a pile of mints on my desk for them. On the occasion when I got...
Another weekend, another flower show visit. Any why not? The variety of flowers seen here is not to be believed. So many representing all over Western Australia, which really should be another wonder of the world. (Someone needs to get on board with that). Today’s visit we also took in...
After a fun wait So this was a trip around Perth with the Hop on Hop Off Option… and… More of the bus trip to come…
So Saturday, John and I decided to take a Bus Tour of Perth. It was one of those no roof on the top, Hop On Hop Off buses like we did in New York City with Chris. Now we got the information we needed from the internet and off we...
The weekend was spent getting up each morning at 5 am to check out sunrises. This day we went to King’s Park. We didn’t just look at the sky, we had an early morning walk around.
I loved the quote, “Now that I’ve been to WA, I know so much more what it is to be Australian.” Luke Webb & Desmond Neysmith’s musical journey inspired by Australia
Kings Park is a 4.06-square-kilometre (1,003-acre) park located on the western edge of Perth, Western Australia central business district. The park is a mixture of grassed parkland, botanical gardens and natural bushland on Mount Eliza with two thirds of the grounds conserved as native bushland. With panoramic views of the...
After a very chill day at the chocolate factory, and later some shopping at Hillary’s, John and I went out to photograph Perth at night.
Every September Kings Park in Perth holds a wildflower festival. This is one of the reasons I wanted to come to Australia in September. I started to post one of each of the varieties I saw there, but there are SO MANY. So here are a few of the amazing...
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