The view from my "office"

[Ade]

A few from around the lakeside office.

First up, the view across Lake Wakatipu to Cecil Peak.

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Steamer Wharf:
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Next wharf along:
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And a stunning contrast with some people making do with what they can in the centre of town…

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…right along side the top 1%.

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Queenstown, New Zealand.

Nice pics @Captain Halliday reminds me of my (first ever & sadly, the last) backpacking trip to NZ back in 2015 .... #BringsBackMemories

 

[prozac]

Definitely looks like Malcotent. Who is that greeting him?

I didn't want to state the obvious ...
Edit: Oh sorry, on re-read I see you were serious. I think the other fella looks like to head honcho himself, AJ.

 

[Cossie]

I didn't want to state the obvious ...
Edit: Oh sorry, on re-read I see you were serious. I think the other fella looks like to head honcho himself, AJ.

AJ is the only one I thought I recognised, I didn’t want to be too obvious taking the photo. I asked the desk, but they said, sorry, can’t tell you.

 

[prozac]

AJ is the only one I thought I recognised, I didn’t want to be too obvious taking the photo. I asked the desk, but they said, sorry, can’t tell you.

I meant the fella on the left.
Your fella on the right must think he is important too judging by the hands clasped behind the back.

 

[jxv]

After Rotterdam came Winterswijk near the German border, a complete change of scenery.

Our office was in a converted farmhouse outside the town that was operated as a hotel by five generations of one family.


Winterswijk town centre.

 

[RooFlyer]

Today's office is the WA Weedbelt, and playing around with new camera











It is the WeedWheat belt, after all





And I'll be damned if this isn't a Permian brachiopod, at Coalseam provincial park. What do people reckon?

 

[TheRealTMA]

New Sheraton club lounge Edinburgh now on ground floor.

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

@RooFlyer what is the flower in the top photo of your post ? It is very pretty !! AND WILL IT GROW IN BEAUTIFUL QLD ??

 

[RooFlyer]

@RooFlyer what is the flower in the top photo of your post ? It is very pretty !! AND WILL IT GROW IN BEAUTIFUL QLD ??

Calling @JohnM to the white courtesy phone . <My own answer would involve glysophate, so probably not very helpful to you >

 

[JohnM]

Calling @JohnM to the white courtesy phone . <My own answer would involve glysophate, so probably not very helpful to you >

I don't know what that one is. Did you take a pic from further back of the whole plant?

 

[Flashback]

New Sheraton club lounge Edinburgh now on ground floor.
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Bit early in the day for wine isn't it?

 

[RooFlyer]

I don't know what that one is. Did you take a pic from further back of the whole plant?

I think this is it (left and right). Some appear to be pinker than others



Some others



And a @henleybeach special

Bit early in the day for wine isn't it?

Whatever do you mean?

 

[love_the_life]

I don't know what that one is. Did you take a pic from further back of the whole plant?

It looks possibly like a pink variant of a paper daisy in bud form (some kind of helichrysum?).

 

[VPS]

It looks possibly like a pink variant of a paper daisy in bud form (some kind of helichrysum?).

I think the plant looks like the paper daisy but the flower is very ornate for one but there are so many species

 

[JohnM]

I think the plant looks like the paper daisy but the flower is very ornate for one but there are so many species

The close-up made the flowers look larger and more fleshy than they are. It does have more whorls than the classic everlasting daisies also shown. It is also something that is not very common compared with the latter.

 

[RooFlyer]

@JohnM i didn't see any wreath flowers Mingenew/ Coalseam / Mullewa / Geraldton today. Should they be somewhere around Geraldton? Have a couple of hours tomorrow before I take the rental car back.

 

[JohnM]

I'm not aware of any closer to Geraldton than the major site at Pindar, east of Mullewa. It's well signed. Head north on the Tallering road about 12km IIRC (no more than 20km).

It may be too late and it's a fair back-track from Geraldton.

Edit: wreath flowers are not something you just stumble across. They are rare, but in well-known pockets that people bee-line to.

 

[RooFlyer]

I'm not aware of any closer to Geraldton than the major site at Pindar, east of Mullewa. It's well signed. Head north on the Tallering road about 12km IIRC (no more than 20km).

It may be too late and it's a fair back-track from Geraldton.

Edit: wreath flowers are not something you just stumble across. They are rare, but in well-known pockets that people bee-line to.

Thanks - drat. There were a couple of signs on buildings with wreath flowers around Mullewa, but nothing to indicate location.

Pindar wreath flowers OK a week ago; might have to wait till next time ... News Story - Wildflower Report 2022 » Visit Geraldton

 

[JohnM]

Thanks - drat. There were a couple of signs on buildings with wreath flowers around Mullewa, but nothing to indicate location.

Pindar wreath flowers OK a week ago; might have to wait till next time ... News Story - Wildflower Report 2022 » Visit Geraldton

Too bad you didn't drop in to the Mullewa visitors' centre. They would have given you directions.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Bit early in the day for wine isn't it?

It’s always wine time somewhere!