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Fahye ([personal profile] fahye) wrote2006-10-06 04:21 pm
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and neither is this

Hiatus or no hiatus, my digital camera has been busy lately.

Image heavy, obviously.



It's fluff season - the poplars are flowering and sending out crazy amounts of white seeded fluff. Add wind and it looks like it's snowing.

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A shot down University Avenue just as you reach the edge of campus. See how pale the ground is? Fluff.

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If you can make out the white specks against the brick...yeah. Fluff. That building is part of the humanities complex. Rather boring. I'm going to do a more comprehensive, interesting ANU-campus-photospam at some stage, especially now that the weather is so nice and all the trees are blossoming.

Spring = Floriade, the flower festival in Commonwealth Park. The city is full of tourists who ask me for directions as I walk to the bus interchange from campus, and extra traffic, and colour and noise. The ANU Choral Society sang there last weekend and I took the opportunity to take some pictures.

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The theme was 'Carnivale' and there were set pieces for lots of different countries, sponsored by the embassies - this was the Japan plot.

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I have a nice picture of [livejournal.com profile] _leareth in front of these red and white flowers, but I won't post it unless she gives the okay. Y/N, hon?

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I love this inky-purple type of tulip. I think they're called 'Queen of the Night'.

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Where the park meets Lake Burley-Griffin (named for the man who won the design competition for the original layout of the city of Canberra).

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The Australian National Library and New Parliament House.

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That funky-looking building is the High Court of Australia.

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I am not kidding, Canberra is really this heavy on trees and greenery. It's gorgeous. Even in the inner city, the streets make no sense whatsoever, but it's gorgeous.

[identity profile] tropes.livejournal.com 2006-10-06 07:43 am (UTC)(link)
Oh wow. Reminds me of Holland, Michigan. :D

[identity profile] -leareth.livejournal.com 2006-10-06 07:46 am (UTC)(link)
Y!

[identity profile] kcdl.livejournal.com 2006-10-06 08:37 am (UTC)(link)
Ooh perdy pictures. The "UFO" above the National Library is a nice touch :P

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[identity profile] darthrami.livejournal.com 2006-10-06 10:35 am (UTC)(link)
It really is gorgeous.


...the National Library looks creepily like the Kennedy Center.
ashen_key: ([flora] somewhat curious)

[personal profile] ashen_key 2006-10-07 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
It does?

*spends half her life in the NLA*

[identity profile] darthrami.livejournal.com 2006-10-07 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
Okay, maybe not PRECISELY (http://cjbehm.dyndns.org/gallery/albums/Georgetown_Jaunt/Kennedy_Center.sized.jpg), but enough to make me do a hell of a double take.
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[identity profile] schiarire.livejournal.com 2006-10-06 01:13 pm (UTC)(link)
AHHHHHHH IT IS EVEN COOLER THAN THE POSTCARD.

TRANS: GUESS WHO GOT YOUR PACKAGE OF LIFE SUSTAINING ITEMS?

[identity profile] drealle.livejournal.com 2006-10-06 01:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I love Floriade :) Do you know that Burley is actually his middle name, and accurately it should be called simply Lake Griffin?

[identity profile] unravels.livejournal.com 2006-10-06 11:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Oooh - gorgeous. I am all in the mood for tulips now. Except this is our first really chilly evening of the season, and the wind howling outside keeps bringing me back to reality.

Is ok. I like cold weather. :]