Bonus photo Friday

Walkway between the Yarra River and Flinders Street Station

Before the show at Hamer Hall. International Ballet Gala, the interwebs say. I was just passing by.

St Kilda Road

Gotta love the rain

...and the State Library

Pole

Waiting for tram, looking towards Richmond Station

ETurtle

Is it just me or does he look a bit like ET?

In a lane off Franklin St in the city

Suncloud

Stadium

Melbourne's newest sports arena (for rugby and soccer) is taking shape

Royal

The ornate ceiling of the World Heritage-listed Royal Exhibition Building, which is hosting the Organic Expo this weekend

Super extra bonus photo Friday

Flinders Street

Southern Cross Station

The wavy roof of Southern Cross Station

Stairway to Etihad Stadium (no footy there tonight)

And then the sun came out

Gosch's Paddock, walking to the tram this morning (feeling lazy)

Tracks

Bourke Street Mall

Fluffy

Taken from Morell Bridge

Empty

Queen Victoria Market, closed on Mondays

Blue Sunday

The ceiling of a lift at the Manchester Unity Building

Part of a leadlight window at Donkey Wheel House

The ceiling of the T&G Building (aka KPMG House)

Hyacinths on Swan Street

Bonus B&W Saturday

Platform 1, Richmond Station

A "practice head" at Chapel Street Bazaar

The Forum

The "picturesque Moorish fantasy" that is The Forum on the corner of Flinders and Russell Streets in the city.

Have those little lights always been on the dome? Have I not been paying attention?

Dear plane trees....

...don't you know it's winter?

To work...

Heading into the city this morning

AC/DC Lane

Yes, named after the legendary Aussie rock band

Slow

City bound on the freeway

Girl out of Melbourne - Part II

Mini road trip of south-west Victoria continued...

A protea in the garden of the log cabin we stayed in at Dunkeld (note rain drops)

A rainbow on the road from Dunkeld to Penshurst

Warrnambool Cemetery

Great Ocean Road - The Grotto

Girl out of Melbourne - Part I

It's too hard to choose just a couple of photos from my mini road trip to the south-west of Victoria this weekend...

Old bridge at Skipton

Cute little church at Chatsworth

My old primary school at Caramut, which closed a few years ago due to lack of students. A sad little playground...

The Botanic Gardens at Penshurst, fed by a natural, never-failing spring (that green/orange stuff under the bridge is water with a covering of duck weed)

Mosaic

Close up of the mosaic sculpture Angel by Deborah Halpern beside the river at Birrarung Marr

Lunch

The flowerboxes of Portello Rosso, Warburton Lane, city

Spokes

Skywheel. Again

Graffiti

At the end of an alley off Little La Trobe Street

River path

Sweet

Afternoon tea at The Windsor Hotel (How cute is that mini lemon meringue pie?)

Entwined

The statue (inspired by the story of Baucis and Philemon from Greek mythology) above the door at Baroq House, Drewery Lane, city

What cheeses me off

Dear Litterbugs: I hope fish and water birds come to your houses and poop on your rugs

(near Swan Street Bridge)

Mirror

Mall

Bourke Street (and apparent one-legged women)