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13 Jun 2022
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Macro
For "Macro Mondays" group topic #261, 13 June 2022 "a check or a checkered pattern." See also PiP for a wider view.
Buddhist Bench
At the Nan Tien Temple. Best wishes for a Happy Bench Monday and for the coming week, everyone.
How many?
A great sky at Wollongong helped by a moist tropical airstream. In the midst of it, the local parachutists were doing a jump. How many can you count? (You may need to enlarge to see them).
Main shrine of Nan Tien Temple
This is situated behind the Front Shrine of the Nan Tien Temple. The entire complex is the largest Buddhist Temple in the Southern Hemisphere. In the PiPs are the incense burner central to the main entrance, the interior with Buddhas and the large gong on the right of the verandah.
Wishing everyone a Happy Fence Friday followed by a good weekend.
Along the track
Track through the Murramarang National Park, with late afternoon light.
Across the bay
Looking west across Batemans Bay from the Murramarang National Park.
06 Jun 2022
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Sew
For "Macro Mondays" group topic #260, 6 June 2022 "Sewing utensils."
The sewing foot of an 1896 Wertheim Transverse Shuttle sewing machine.. See also the little working gnome on the Werthem badge in the PiP.
History!
Wollongong has a community museum, which is where I found this recreation of a historic classroom, complete with slates on the desks (though not the proper slate pencils which are apparently unobtainable). What really struck me was that, with a different building and without the abacus, it was a good match with my earlier classrooms ... just a "few" years ago. :-)
HBM and have a good week, everyone.
Mother-of Millions
Mother of Millions is the common name for several related plants and hybrids, native to Africa and Madagascar. Introduced as a garden plant, it is now a serious weed in parts of Australia. It spreads by producing many plantlets (see notes) and is drought resistant. Worst of all, the plant and flowers are toxic to livestock.
