Crassula but I can't remember which.

#BloomScrolling #Succulents #StrangeFlowers

Am I missing something?

Remembered to get a late season photo of the Venus Flytrap

#PlantsWithBite #BloomScroĺling

And a not-so-classic view

The classic view at Bridestowe, with the red dirt constrasting with the rows of lavender

#lavender

Bridestowe lavender farm, NE Tasmania. Desipite believing lavender is one of the very best of flowers, I've never been here. Every time we pass, we're on the way to somewhere else and we'll go there "next time". Finally "next time" became "this Thursday", and here it is.

#lavender #BloomScrolling #Tasmania

TV is babbling on about Bath, and the Roman Baths of course. So you get a photo. Taken a lot of photos lately I want to share but feeling a serious lack of motivation 😞

#Roman #Bath #Reflections

Rosa alba semi-plena. First flower!

Two more buds about to open. This isn't a rose if you want abundant flowers. Hopefully next year will bring more.

(A Christmas present last year but it was finished flowering by then.)

#BloomScrolling #Rose #MuchAnticipated

Photo "memories" on that other place. Now I want to go to visit Cornwall, Meh.

Chysauster Village, on a foggy day. Best way to visit. Cut off from the rest of the world. Just me and the houses.)

(Late Iron Age, about 1st - 3rd century CE (which corresponds to the time of Roman occupation elsewhere, I know). Courtyard houses, which are basically a round yard with a large room at one end and smaller rooms in the arms/outer walls.)

The Merry Maidens, of Cornwall.
They were turned into stone for dancing on Sunday. Their pipers are in a paddock on other side of the road.

#StandingStoneSunday #LandscapePhotography

Roman Egyptian bone dice.
The museum lable says "Bone dice , from Oxyrhynchus, Roman Period, after 1st century BC" (National Museum of Ireland)
#OldGames #Vikings #Dice #MuseumPhotos
I am not going to look up anything on these because I will end up in a rabbit warren of Roman dice and Ancient Egyption games (and will want to buy things, and I already have bone dice, like the one in the middle, also a Senet game. Don't need more.)

White & black cat enjoying the sun at Herculaneum

#CatsOfMastodon #RomanCats

Passenger trains were discontinued in #Tasmania in the 1970s. Most of the stations were moved/demolished. Some were converted to other uses and others just sat there, unused.

The colonial government had been making noises about building a railway since the 1830s, but it was nearly forty years later that the first railway line opened. It ran from Launceston west to Deloraine, and built and owned by the Launceston & Western Railway Company.

The second line built c. 1876 ran from Launceston to Hobart. This was backed by the government and this is where I realise where the riots, strikes, derailments, shipwreck etc stories are not going to fit in 3000 characters :(

Anyway, further lines were added to extend the network through the island including through the Fingal Valley to the east coast (left photo, Fingal) and up through the north east (right photo, Scottsdale.)

The Fingal photo is form 2010. There was some talk of restoring the building but I don't know if anything came from it.

#RailwayStations #TravelPhotos #TheRailLessTravelled

For some reason I seem to have a lot of photos of railway station platforms :D

This is #Castlemaine, in #Victoria in 2010.

#RailwayStations #TravellingPhotos

Still no post.

Hmm.

How it started | How it's going

(Left) In February 2023 I bought a pitcher plant (Sarracenia). They're interesting and I wanted to see if I could get one to grow. It had some sundew & Venus fly trap seedlings in the same pot, so I put them in their own pots.

(Right) It grew :)
The original plant is the mad looking one of the left. Top shelf has 4 different Sarracenia hybrids. Top right are my Venus fly traps. (The seedlings in the original photo died off except for one tiny one you can't see in either photo but it's in a narrow pot between the other two). Bottom right are sundews, including the original ones and its offspring. Left side are all pitch plants. The bottom shelf is four smaller ones

#CarnivorousTypes #PicturesOfPitchers #Bloomscrolling #MaybeTooManyPlants

A quick beach photo. Low Head's East Beach, at the mouth of the Tamar River, is one of the busier beaches.

The Capitolium was at the northern end of the forum. You can see it in the background here.

#Roman #Ruins

The Capitolium of #Pompeii (temple dedicated to the three main gods: Jupiter, Minerva & Juno). Seriously damaged in the earthquiake.

Glowing a little because the sun is low in the sky.

#Volcano #Roman #landscapephotography

Guard tower at #PortArthur