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I have a bunch of lame pics from Geelong and my garden. I often forget to take photos when I'm out. Too busy looking with my eyes.
Enjoy. π
On my way to Spencer street went thru Melbourne Central and saw the Omega 13 device. Looked awesome.
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Geelong pelican. Big.
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sea monster
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an exciting museum. ( truly, this was probably interesting but I wasn't going to find out for $12. I grew up among farms and have seen factories too. So nothing new.
but what I noticed about Geelong which really *is great * is that it's very wheel chair friendly and I saw many disabled people enjoying a holiday .
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night time flowers
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happy snail light
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Is that a Bella Donna? My mum was a nurse, and once told me about one of her patients who went blind from eating it for βentertainmentβ. Luckily for them that effect wore off after a few days.
4 o'clock flower?
Ah, thanks. There are quite a few trumpet-flowered plants that look similar. Have just been down a very interesting google wormhole and now realise how many poisonous plants there were in our garden growing up, lol.
True, mum had heaps of poisonous plants in the garden when I was a wee one, but only gave a shit enough to remove them when we got her a little dog