This month, since #TreeSquares is over I decided to post to Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge (FOTD). Like Becky B, Cee offers us the freedom to post every day or when we feel like it. I made the mistake of classifying my trees as flowers for about half the month last month. So this month – no trees. (maybe) Cee’s FOTD challenge accepts gardens, leaves and berries as well as flowers.
As I swirled through my forested universe last month I came in touch again with my Australian trip. This month I’ll revisit only the flowers I photographed in Ballarat, Melbourne, Healesville Sanctuary and Queensland. Sometimes I might combine my post with another challenge I am doing, but I may just post one photo a day. I’ve never done that, so I’ll see how it goes.
August 5 Ballarat Botanical Gardens
LAPC #159 Post Cards
Hi Sweetie Pie, Wish you had come with me. We had a great day here in the Botanical Gardens today. A bit different than foggy Woodlake here. The temperatures are easily in the 90s. Carol and Mandy are smart to cover their arms in the intense Australian sun, but if I did they’d drip off me.
MMP
Submitted to Ana for LAPD #159 Postcards. I made this fun post card in Canva.
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Marsha Ingrao - Always Write 
23 responses to “FOTD #5: Ballarat Kangaroos Hedge Their Bets on Red Begonias”
Love your post, Marsha, thanks for sharing your postcards.
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Thanks, Ana! 🙂
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Loved your postcard Marsha – what a fun response to the challenge!
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Thanks, Tina, it was a lot of fun to make.
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What a lovely time you had, Marsha. I thought it was your lovely copperplate writing on the post card until I read you made it in Canva.
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It was so cool. They had stamp frames. So you could fill in your own pictures.
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It is so lovely to see you taking a trip down memory lane, Marsha. So lovely to hear you visited Victoria, Australia – my state. Ballarat isn’t too far from me and I remember visiting it a few years ago. I went to the Ballarat Botanical Gardens and it is lovely to see it again through your lens. Lovely shot of the kangaroo hedges. Looked like a lovely sunny day too.
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Thanks Mabel. I loved your state. My plan is Melbourne next. 🙂
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When you get to visit, hope you enjoy your time here, Marsha 🙂
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I did, Mabel. It was about 4 and a half years ago, but the pictures are a fun way to review and remember with traveling curtailed.
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The most ostentatious topiary I ever saw was at Disney, Florida, Marsha. Who can fail to smile at topiary Pooh and Tigger? Hope life is treating you well, hon.
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Is that Pooh and Tiger? Oh no!!! Thanks for the good thoughts.
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🤣💕
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Great take on, Marsha!
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Thanks Leya!
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Excellent 👌
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Ahhh. I thought the title was a secret coded message for the start of D-Day or something. Beautiful!
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No secret code, John, LOL. I did get some pictures at a WWI Memorial in Melbourne. Ted poppies everywhere!
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I love the topiary – that seems like it would require a lot of skill and patience.
and did I miss FOTD 4?
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Yes, and a lot of maintenance.
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I forgot about the upkeep; I am sure it is significant…
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What cool photos for today 😀 😀 Did the kangaroos hop around? LOL
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They were too green to know how to do that.
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