Eating on the go

The Tramcar Restaurant in Bourke Street Mall

Covered

Shoppers passing through the third floor walkway between Myer and Melbourne Central

Bonus photo Saturday

Hosier Lane in the city, one of Melbourne's graffiti hotspots (PS the bridesmaids' dresses were about the same colour as the wheelie bin lids on the right!)

City bound, Windsor Station

Waiting

Flinders Street tram stop in the evening sun

After the storm

From Prince's Bridge 

Royal Arcade

Christmas decorations in the Royal Arcade

Buoys

Not sure what the story is with these traffic-light-coloured buoys in the Yarra Turning Basin area (the site of Melbourne's first port), near the Aquarium

Lake

I haven't seen the water level in the Botanic Gardens Ornamental Lake this high in ages thanks to the weekend rain. Not that it's that high still. Damn drought. Apparently plans are afoot to replenish the lake with reclaimed water.

Debris

Was it windy somewhere upstream last night? Waterways workers busy removing half a tree from the river this afternoon.

Coat of arms

The base of one of the lamps on Prince's Bridge. They all bear the City of Melbourne coat of arms with the motto which translates as 'We gather strength as we go'.

Disco Christmas

Christmas decorations at QV

Chrome

Motorbike, near Prince's Bridge

Row

Old Cyclorama

I really like this building in Little Collins Street, near the corner of Russell Street. It's now apartments and shops, but in the 1890s it was home to a form of public entertainment called a Clyclorama.

Vista

Looking to the city and the new sports stadium from Hoddle Bridge yesterday (I haven't left my flat today). It's depressing how quickly the banks of the river are fading from lush green to yellow/brown.

Canopy

This is one of my favourite trees, a huge Golden Elm on the corner of Punt Rd and Alexandra Avenue. It was mentioned in a story in The Age last year on Melbourne's significant trees.

Beach

I had lunch with a friend at a restaurant on the St Kilda foreshore today. The sea breeze was beautiful.
(Yup, I've had a little make-over so that my photos are larger)

Warm and fuzzy

Beside the river, under the freeway

Smoggy

The view of the city from an MCG footbridge this evening

Red

Flanders poppies...the symbol of Remembrance Day, growing in the grounds of the Shrine of Remembrance

Park Street, South Yarra again. If I ever own my own home, I want a red door like this one.

Hatton Hotel

Park Street, South Yarra

Evening shade

Long shadows in the Botanic Gardens on my way home in the heat tonight

The Gangsters' Ball

Fantasia

Another burlesque performer

Headline act Meow Meow

The gambling den and The Forum Theatre's beautiful blue ceiling

Mossy bluestone + birdies

As I was walking home beside the river tonight...

It's beginning to look....

...a lot like Christmas. The decorations went up in the city last weekend, these ones in the Bourke Street Mall (today you get a bonus bumblebee tram).

Golden Elm

Rockley Gardens, Toorak (with bonus headless man and bodyless dog, between trunk and park bench)

South Wharf

(er...just realised I posted this to the wrong blog yesterday!)

Jogger

Yarra River path

Decrepit

I love this old house on Cifton Street in Richmond. I think someone does live there.