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Fahye ([personal profile] fahye) wrote2006-10-06 04:21 pm
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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] 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.