Some Odd Doors

“Don’t fight the doors you are led to. Take a deep breath and go through.” Today I have some random, odd doors that I have seen during one of my walks around town. They’re from all over the place and I hope you’d like it. For Dan’s Thursday Doors Challenge

Doors & Seats in the Old Town

“If you like the fairy tales, visit the old towns.” – Mehmet Murat ildan Outside the ancient walled city of Carcassonne, France, hubby and I were surprised at how many beautiful doors we saw in just the main strip of the old town of Carcassonne. For Dan’s Thursday Doors Challenge In some hidden corners that…

Through the Doors of Avignon!

“He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him.” – Dutch proverb ____________________ I am sharing this as part of Dan’s Thursday Doors Challenge ____________________ The Palais des Papes or the Palace of the Popes is the most important building built during the Gothic period. I am featuring the…

Blue, Blue My world is Blue

“If you’re feeling blue, try painting yourself a different colour.” – unknown Seats and Doors for Jude’s Life in Colour – Blue Debbie’s Six Word Saturday Some Blue doors for Dan’s Thursday Doors Challenge and Blue Seats for Xingfumama’s Pull Up a Seat Challenge And for Photographing Public Art challenge, here are some doors and…

The Shop Doors on High Street

“We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we’re curious… and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” – Walt Disney It was fun walking along an unfamiliar place. It is like being a tourist in a new city. As some of my previous posts have shown, my daughter moved…

Peeking Though…

“It’s fun to peek into other people’s worlds and see how they go about doing things.” – Nora Jones Walking the streets of Northcote, a suburb of Melbourne, on the new neighbourhood of Pat. These are views from my camera lens … peeking over the picket fences … and seeing the doors and chairs of…

CBD Doors

“Open the door … it may lead you someplace you never expected …” – unknown Sprinkler Door and Fire Hydrant Door… painted in a fun way. These are door murals in the CBD for Dan’s Thursday Doors Challenge.

Buda Doors and Chairs

I have featured the Buda Historic Home & Garden in some of my previous posts. I visited this place together with my daughter, Pat and my husband, Jack, when we spent a few days in Castlemaine in Victoria. Buda Windows Buda Gardens Here is a little bit more history about the place. THE LEVINY OF…

Going Around the City

“There was nowhere to go but everywhere.” – Jack Kerouac It is almost winter so Jack and I took this opportunity to go everywhere this weekend. We decided to take the train to the city just to be different. But wrong move… the trains were not running direct from our place so we had to…

Two doors, a mural and a signage

“Old ways won’t open new doors.” – Anonymous For this week’s CMMC – May Pick a Topic from my Photo, and Dan’s Thursday Doors Challenge This is just an amateurish mural that my daughter saw in one of her walks. It also shows a roller door on one side, a wooden door on the other…

In the Countryside

“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” Just driving through the countryside and saw this rustic ambiance ….I had to ask my husband to stop the car so that I can take a photo of this beauty. Taken a few weeks ago in Castlemaine in Victoria during our family’s short getaway. It looks deserted…

Welcome to Buda Gardens

“All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.” – Proverb I have posted many photos from gardens recently like the Cloudehill Gardens and the Rhododendron Gardens, so let me take you now to a different one, the Buda Historic Homes and Gardens. This was one of the places that my…

Doors and Arches in Cloudehill

“Never underestimate the healing power of a quiet moment in the garden.” – Anonymous At the top of the Dandenong Ranges is a maze of a garden, sculpture, archway and doors known as the Cloudehill Gardens. This is the signage in front and the entry door. This is for Dan’s Thursday Door Challenge Please click…

Bright Church Doors

“God will open doors that you didn’t knock on.” Unknown Some church doors in the Melbourne CBD. Brightly coloured ones too! Dan’s Thursday Doors Challenge- Bright Church Doors BeckyB’s Square Challenge- Bright Church Doors

Brightly Painted Wooden Doors

“When one door closes, another opens. Or you can open the closed door. That’s how doors work.” – Anonymous A bright door in a shopping place serving fresh food. I don’t really like it that much but I guess the one who designed it did. Great for the challenge though. Dan’s Thursday Doors Challenge –…

The Main Street of Castlemaine

“Little by little, one travels far.” – J.R.R. Tolkien Regional Travel Vouchers of $200 were offered to encourage Victorian residents to explore their state. It was gone in seconds but I was one of the few lucky ones to get it. I decided to visit Castlemaine, which is a former gold mining town. It is…

The START of the Bright Month of April

“She’s like a rainbow. She lives in colors.” It is the Start and Day 1 of Becky B’s Square Challenge with the topic of Bright. This is not just bright but it’s also glittery. Saw this store in Prahran, Melbourne. It is a whole shop of brightly coloured shoes, clog, boots, bags and accessories for…

Washing Lines in Italy

“My idea of getting lucky is having someone do the laundry.” Nowhere else can you find washing lines to be as beautiful as those in Italy. It seems to be part of their lifestyle, their architecture, their culture and it is aesthetically pleasing to one’s eyes. It is very common to see the clothesline connected…

The World in Shapes

“We never shape the world…the world shapes us.” – Toni Morrison Sometimes it is not intentional but we see some diamonds,squares and triangles in architecture. Diamonds From the streets of Rome 30 St Mary Axe, more famously known as The Gherkin in London Close up of the Louvre pyramid in Paris which is made of…

Bookshop Doors

“So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world.” – Vincent van Gogh A handsome and delightful book store with a combination of new and second hand books. The facade on the left side had painted books on the walls and in the…

The Doors in 1 Mater Street

“Open the door… it may lead you some place you never expected.” I went to this gallery known as Le Space in 1 Mater Street, Collingwood. It is a fairly new contemporary gallery comprising a mixture of formal and informal viewing spaces with a number of doors. Thursday Doors

At the Frankston Beach

“Let the waves hit your feet, and the sand be your seat.”- unknown When there’s a beach there would always be a tent with doors. There would also be beach chairs all around. For this week let me take you through the doors and seats at Frankston Beach Plus bonus ice cream cone for the…

Murals on Doors on an Alleyway

“In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between there are DOORS.” – unknown I am back to what I love doing … it is walking around the streets of Melbourne and capturing whatever I find interesting. This week I am featuring Murals on Doors in one…

Red Doors around Melbourne

“When one door closes, a bigger and BETTER door always opens.” – unknown Here are some red doors from around Melbourne and nearby Suburbs. They’re quite attractive and is a welcoming colour, for some it can also mean Good luck. Thursday Doors

Doors by the Beach

“Give me coffee to change the things I can And the beach To accept the things I can’t” – unknown At the Shire Hall Beach in the Mornington Peninsula, near the colourful bathing boxes, I found this lovely tiny house with doors and murals on all four sides. I later on found out that this…

3 Doors and a Bird

“I saw a birdhouse on a tree. Watched a little bird trying to flee. That’s what I call nature’s beauty.” – Vikram Varma Thought I might have some fun with my post today. I just noticed this birdhouse…as tiny as it is, has three doors. Thursday Doors

Red Mural in Prahran

The mural is created around the windows and it covers the height and width of the building. It is painted with red, as you can guess, to go with the KFC logo. And if you will notice… the people on the upper left side are all reaching for the bucket, which is really a great…

Wooden Doors in Fitzroy North

“If you feel you have to open a particular door, open it, otherwise all your life that door will haunt your mind!” – Mehmet Murat ildan Strolling where my daughter lives, I saw many interesting doors. This week, here are some wooden doors in Fitzroy North, a suburb in Melbourne, Australia. Thursday Doors Please click…

Up & Down Chapel Street

“I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.” – Ric Ocasek Chapel Street, Melbourne is known for its retail outlets, restaurants and cafes. It also is well known for its different types of artistic endeavours like public murals and sculptures. But for this week…

In my BackUP file … USA

“In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt This wasn’t supposed to be my post for today’s SquareUp Challenge…but then I was moved by a fellow blogger’s view of anger, of doubt, of sadness and then with the Inauguration … finally being able to breathe a sigh…