Bright and Yellow

“How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.” – Vincent Van Gogh Making my day bright and sunny…. here are some yellow items that hopefully makes you happy too! FOTD – Yellow Flowers CMMC June Colour- Yellow

Faces and More Faces?

“I wanna see new places and meet new faces.” – unknown Please click image to enlarge. Some faces in some interesting places. Random things with faces… Some streetart that look like faces … on the streets of Melbourne. And… do these photos seem to look like faces? Or is it just my imagination? For Cee’s…

Green Foliage

“In every change, in every falling leaf there is some pain, some beauty. And that’s the way new leaves grow.” – Amit Ray I had just finished watching a travel show and it made me think. After more than a year of the pandemic there’s this question running through my mind. Would travel ever be…

Dalai Lama

“What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.” – Dalai Lama Australian street artist Matt Adnate or just “ADNATE” painted this endearing mural of the Dalai Lama in the rear of a building in Fitzroy, a suburb of Melbourne. The three storey mural was painted a few years ago to pay tribute to…

Seating in the Middle of Town

“Color is descriptive. Black and white is interpretive.” – Elliot Erwitt Nothing is more relaxing than having a bit if a rest after a long walk. These Mosaic couch sculpture by artist Guiseppe Roneri can be found in Brunswick Street in Melbourne’s Fitzroy area in Victoria, Australia. For CBWC : Seating And another entry for…

Photos from London

“Art is too important not to share.” – Romero Britto Tim took a photo while he was having his bike serviced…thanks son! This is a streetart by Thierry Noir in Shoreditch, London. I believe it is fairly new and this one can be found in Holywell Lane, if any of you may be around that…

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…

Can you SPOT the DOTs?

“Everything starts from a DOT.” – Wassily Kandinsky This is another fun post from Lens Artist Photo Challenge: Spots and Dots. I saw all these DOTS in some familiar SPOTS near and far. Please click image to enlarge.

Old vs New

“Everything old is new again. It is all about old-world glamour.” – unknown For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge – Old vs New

An Afternoon Walk on Mother’s Day

”Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.” – Unknown First of all, Happy Mother’s Day to all of you great mothers out there. I am wishing you more blessing, more love and more happiness in your lives! It is Mother’s Day today, but I had an early celebration yesterday….

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

rocking horsE in a vintagE placE

Ending with E for Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge A few rocking horsE in a vintagE placE And some bonus piE and alE if you wish

It’s 10pm in Melbourne

“Night is to see the dreams and day is to make them true.” – Anonymous Melbourne is not quite like New York (the city that never sleeps) ….but it does sparkle at night. This is the Casino at the Yarra River at 10 pm on a Saturday night. BeckyB’s Square Challenge- Melbourne Sparkles

Getting to Know … Me!

To get to know me is to know my heritage. Both my parents are Filipinos. My mother was a stay-at-home mum and my dad was an artist and an Advertising man by profession. Please click images to enlarge. I got my artistic gene from my dad. Back in the Philippines, immediately after graduating from Bachelor…

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 –…

Autumn In Budapest

“Autumn…you blush my heart that travels through my dreams year round.” – Angie Welland-Crosby A row of flaming red trees lined an empty, winding street in Castle Hill, Budapest. I had my winter boots on but that wasn’t enough to keep my feet warm. Thursday Tree Love – Autumn in Budapest

Bright Sunny Day for a Bike Ride

“My kids are the sunshine of my life.” As some of you may already know, my kids send me photos of their activities even before these ZOOM meetings and catchups were the norm. Here are Pat and Tim plus my daughter in law, Leigh… enjoying some spectacular days in the sun having a bike ride…

Sparkle & Shine Bright

“DREAM big SPARKLE more SHINE bright” Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge CFFC – Shine Brightly BeckyB’s Square Challenge- Shine Brightly “Both light and shadow are the dance of love.” – Rumi ”Let your light shine so brightly that others can see their way out if the dark.” – Katrina Mayer

Bright Mural in the Mill Castlemaine

“It is in your hands to create a better world for all who live in it.” – Nelson Mandela   In the 1870s the Mill in Castlemaine was once a woollen mill and carpet factory. In 2013, the new owners brought it back to life and is now evolving as a creative hub. Back in…

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…

A Glimpse of Verona

With the limited time that we had, it was a surprise that we were even able to see quite a bit of Verona First thing that we saw as we alighted from our coach was the Resurrecturis, a beautiful neoclassical architecture. Later on did I find out that this was the main entrance to the…

I See Bright Green

“Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.” – Pedro Calderon de la Barca For Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge – CMMC – April Colour (Light Green or Neon Green) BeckyB’s Square Challenge- Bright Green

Bright Autumn Leaves

“AUTUMN is a second SPRING, when every LEAF is a FLOWER.” – Albert Camus Spring is a magical season… but it comes to us, the opposite of the rest of the world. While for Amy and to most of you, the flowers of spring are slowly bursting brightly …. the green leaves are now becoming…

Bright Murals in Lucerne

“Paint your life in bright colors and bold strokes.” Colourful, bright murals on the façade of Restaurant Fritschi in Lucerne, Switzerland. What makes it more interesting are the windows that is incorporated with the mural! BeckyB’s Square Challenge – Brightly Painted Ludwig’s Monday Windows Challenge – Brightly Painted Sami’s Monday Murals – Mural in Lucerne

Jack and his Little Princess

“Father and daughter have a special bond. She is always Daddy’s Little Girl.” Ann- Christine gave us the freedom to choose whatever topic we want to feature. So I decided to talk about these two… I love taking photos of my husband and my daughter especially in unguarded moments. For Ann-Christine’s Lens Artist Photo Challenge…

Bright Seats in an Icecream Shop

“Shine bright. No matter who dulls your sparkle.” Bright metal chairs in an icecream shop in Gembrook, Victoria. Xingfumama’s Pull Up a Seat Challenge Becky B’s Square Challenge Debbie’s Six Word Saturday

Always be Bright

“DREAM big SPARKLE more SHINE bright.” I am not posting anything about nature or Streetart or lights or travel… this is a simple drawing of a child to make some other person’s day somewhat colourful and a bit brighter.. Do I see a little smile on that face of yours? Saw this on a walkway…

Looking Upon Decay…

“I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.” – Henry Miller I love how these flowers are still standing upright even in decay… “There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind.” – Sarah Josepha Hale…