Australia

Challenge Interview Series #19 Bushboy – Brian Dodd

Welcome to Always Write. I am your hostess, Marsha Ingrao, […]

PPAC #25 Melbourne Walk #2 Hosier Lane Murals

Featured Bloggers for PPAC #24 We had a marvelous response from all of you on last week’s PPAC #24. I want to say thank you to each of you for joining […]

#PPAC

PPAC #24: Melbourne Mural Walk #1

Public art encompasses any form of art you see in a public place, large or small, statues, murals, graffiti, gardens, parks, etc. The art should be visible from streets, sidewalks, […]

Blogging

FOTD #23 Final Aussie Floral Post

This month, since TreeSquares is over, I decided to participate in Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge – (FOTD). Like Becky B, Cee offers us the freedom to post every […]

Blogging

FOTD #21: Roses Are Pink

This month, since TreeSquares is over, I decided to participate in Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge – (FOTD). Like Becky B, Cee offers us the freedom to post every […]

Blogging

PPAC #10: Symbolic Public Art in Australia

Public art is encompasses any form of art you see in a public place, large or small, statues, murals, graffiti, gardens, parks, etc. The art should be visible from streets, […]

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FOTD #18: More Toowoomba Floral Designs

This month, since TreeSquares is over, I decided to participate in Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge – (FOTD). Like Becky B, Cee offers us the freedom to post every […]

Blogging

FOTD #17: Wild and Wooly in Toowoomba, AU

This month, since TreeSquares is over, I decided to participate in Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge – (FOTD). Like Becky B, Cee offers us the freedom to post every […]

Blogging

Sunday Stills/FOTD #15: Toowoomba’s Premiere History Quilt

My friend, Terri Webster Schrandt on her blog Second Wind […]

Blogging

FOTD #14: Melbourne’s Treasury Gardens’ Paradise

This month, since #TreeSquares is over I decided to post […]

Blogging

FOTD #12: A Trio of Australian Gum Nut Pods

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 […]

Blogging

FOTD #10: Fitzroy Gardens Conservatory

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 […]

#PPAC

PPAC #8 Australian Animal Sculptures

This is week 8 of PPAC which my co-host, Cee Neuner is hosting. I wanted to combine it with FOTD #9 so I don’t miss a single day of August. […]

Blogging

FOTD #8: Hen-Pecked Australian Artichokes

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 […]

Blogging

FOTD #7: Old Sovereign Hill Florals

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 […]

Blogging

#TreeSquare #31: Trees in the Bunya National Park

In this month’s square’s challenge I started at home and […]

#PPAC

#PPAC #7: A Day Carved Out for Kids

This is week 7 of PPAC already, almost two months. My co-host Cee Neuner and I have been thrilled at the response from this photo challenge. It gives us a […]

Blogging

#TreeSquare 29: Prime Minister Avenue in Lake Wendouree Park

My goal for this month for #Tree Squares was to […]

Blogging

#TreeSquares #28: Melbourne Trees Mean Business

My goal for this month for #Tree Squares was to […]

Blogging

Challenge Interview: Denyse Whelan: Forging Friendships – Link by Link

Challenge Interview Series #17 Hi, I’m Marsha Ingrao and my […]

Blogging

#Bird Weekly Challenge #46: Australian Birds Perched

When I read Lisa’s theme for this week, birds perched, […]

#WQW

#Writer’s Quotes Wednesdays Writing/Photo Challenge #18: Travel

On the Road Again In addition to being an introduction […]

#WQW

#WQWWC #17 Leisure

This week our topic for Writer’s Quotes Wednesday’s Challenge #17 is Leisure. Check out my page for more information. To participate, find a quote about leisure, write a post, put […]

Blogging

#Bird Weekly Photo Challenge #39 Mostly Australian Birds that Eat Mostly Fish

You can’t be friends with Lisa Coleman and not be […]

Blogging

#Sunday Stills: Feeding Birds in Australia

Australian Trip #21 Today in Sunday Stills Terri from Second wind leisure challenged us to feed the birds. I whined to Janis about never having any beautiful bird pictures. But […]

Blogging

#Becky B’s Square Upsidaisy Street Shot Twosomes

Happy end of palindrome day. 1-22-21 (same backwards and forwards) […]

Travel

Melbourne’s Walk in the Park Tour: Treasury Gardens

Melbourne’s Walk – Danger Avoided This post disappeared from Always […]

Book Reviews

“The Inaugural Meeting of Fairvale Ladies Book Club” – A Book Review and just a tad of jealousy

You're going to love this book and the reviewer, too.

Travel

How to Enjoy the Ballarat Botanical Gardens

If you go to Victoria, you HAVE to take the hour and a half train from Melbourne and visit the City of Ballarat Botanical Gardens across the street from Lake Wendouree.

Travel

How to Relax Under a Fairies Tree

Australia #16 Fitzroy Gardens and the Fairies Tree Relax? Are you kidding? Life gets hectic surrounded by five million people, the population of Melbourne, Victoria in Australia. That might make […]

Travel

Oh no! There’s a Turkey in Your Garden

May Dreams Gardens #15 Australia If you miss Ballarat, you miss Australia. Forget Sydney. Sovereign Hill went down in history and stayed there. Like going to Colonial Williamsburg, VA in the […]

Travel

May Gardens in January from Victoria, Australia

May Dreams Gardens #14 Australia The weeds are growing well in […]

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Australia’s Famous Snugglepot and Cuddlepie Stories

Australia Post #13 Cee’s Odd Ball Challenge Actually, these stories rate less […]

Travel

Healesville Sanctuary Blooms in December and January

May Dreams Gardens Garden Photo Challenge Australia #12 There is nothing […]

Travel

Looking Up a Didgeridoo

Cee’s Oddball Challenge Australian trip #12 Of course, you know what this is. It’s a didgeridoo. In case you have never seen one, this is probably not the first view […]

Travel

Smile Good Lookin’

Cee’s Oddball Photo Challenge Australia #11 Happy Valentine’s Day everyone. Hope you have fun today! Leanne Cole and her friend Suzanne took Carol and me to Healesville Sanctuary to get […]

Travel

How to Fall in Love with Australia One Pumpkin at a Time

Australia Series #10 When is a pumpkin, not a pumpkin? […]

Travel

Used Tombstone for Sale in Crows Nest

Antiques tell their own stories and vary from country to country. Some locations are famous for their antique shops. The sleepy town of Crows Nest only let us peek in the windows and make guesses.

Travel

How to Eat Meat Pies at Sovereign Hill in Ballarat

Friday Food Challenge Australia Trip #8 Aussie Meat Pies Mrs. […]

Travel

How Do You Justify Pavlova for Breakfast?

Friday Food Challenge #amblogging #amtraveling Australia trip #5 Australian Food Journey The term breakfast originated from the Middle English words break and fast. For those of you who rarely fast never heard […]

Reblogged

Ripper Aussie Names

I met Miriam through the Eternal Traveller’s blog. She posts frequently about Australia, so I thought you might enjoy this play on names. “I’ve been everywhere, man … I’ve been to […]

Travel

How Do You Use the Bathroom in Australia?

Cee’s Oddball Photo Challenge #Australia Trip #4 #lovemelbourne #viewintheloo #dontstallinthestall Warning: Content May Be Offensive to Some If you have been in a bathroom in the United States, you have been assaulted by […]

Photo Challenges

Fun Flying from Melbourne to Toowoomba

Fun Foto Big and Small, Tuesdays of Texture #loveMelbourne #loveToowoomba #loveAustralia Australia Travel Series #3 Window Seat Carol’s Sacrifice Mrs. ET and I flew from Melbourne to Toowoomba on Australia’s Air North. […]

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Things I Learned Traveling Around Australia

Carol, the Eternal Traveller, travels incessantly. I think this is one of her funniest posts. In Melbourne I carried around the backpack you will see. It did not look like […]

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