Poking around in the backyard with my macro lens yields all manner of weird and wonderful landscape.  This off a rather large succulent that’s currently flowering up a storm.

Toogoom, QLD.

Toogoom, QLD.

The earth’s shadow is rent on a pink dusk sky above the Beelbi Creek at low tide.

Toogoom, QLD.

Toogoom, where I spent a lot of my last week and a bit, is still a sleepy little coastal hamlet where dropping a line is the highest priority.  That said, the every encroaching ‘seachange’ is but a housing estate away.

And with that, I have returned!  With a bit of luck, it will be for a while too.

The above image is of (part of) the beautiful Hotel Shamrock in Bendigo.  The architecture of this building is exquisite, right down the the coloured tiles beneath the window sills.  It’s great to see a country town maintaining a pub like this and not to see it adorned with garish large modern billboard advertising for mid strength beers.