With leading Monday Mural poster Sami, here is mine this week. Is there a story here?

Sami and others participate in Monday Mural. What do I have today? Have I used this before? I thought I had. A lot of effort went into taking this photo, spied from the car last year when I was teaching Phyllis to drive. Of course I'll remember where it is, and I didn't exactly. I think it is the blue fairy wren, which featured in last week's mural. 

Along with Sami and others, here is my contribution today.

It is a mural but on a hoarding, so it will disappear at some point. A repeat of nice panels works well enough, and I think the artwork is good. 

On the very left is a blue fairy wren, a delightful bird that hops and flits around, galah a raucous bird of the parrot family, then a wattle bird, your early morning wake up call, and in breeding season if near their nests, they will swoop down at you, making a clacking noise, but not make contact with you. Yes, I have been swooped by one. Lastly is a rainbow lorikeet, noisy and a very colourful parrots

The answer to yesterday's map was the 'c' swear word. Does the map make sense now? 

Along with Sami and others, here is my Monday Mural. I've no idea what it is about, aside from the obvious that all are having a gay old time. With one more country attacked by an almighty power, isn't it nice have something happy and gay to view. 

Sami hosts Monday Mural and I am joining in with her. 

Nothing too wonderful this week but I like the images.

Sami and others participate in Monday Mural. This is a mural I snapped while Marcellous drove me around inner western Sydney last October under brilliant blue skies. Only later when looking at maps did I work our where we had been. 

With Sami and others, here is my effort for Monday Mural.

This is not exactly a mural, as it is metal sculpture but still, it's rather nice and can be seen at the Returned Servicemen's League in the suburb of Altona. I can't really find who created the work. 

Sami and others post for Monday Mural. My effort this week took little effort, as my friend Bunyip having seen the mural being painted, took photos of the finished product. I wish artists would sign their works, and I wish I could remember to mention whose work they are. 

Well, that got me. I've only just realised my late partner Ray is in the photo, striding up Barkly Street, St Kilda with some shopping to the tram stop. He was used to me dropping behind to take photos. 

Along with Sami and others, here I go with Monday Mural. I don't think I've posted this before.Nice sentiments. 

Linking to Sami, here is this week's Monday Mural, the photo being taken by my friend Wombat.There are so many birds with different looks and by the nearby buildings, the scale of the work is huge. How do muralists have the concept of creating such works?

Along with Sami in Perth for Monday Mural, here is a repeat posting of this mural in Melbourne's Collins Street. It is a new and better photo and I decided to do some research this time.

I should have realised but I didn't, that it is a mosaic. It is based on a painting by a young man who had to learn how to paint with his left hand after his right hand was blown off while fighting in WWI.

The quote is by Puck in Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, referencing fast travel. 

The painter Napier Waller, also created this mosaic. I had not heard of him but he deserves great recognition for his various works around our city. Hels has mentioned him in various posts, including one of my favourites about Melbourne's coffee palaces. But I can't see that she has posted directly about Waller. 

Look up in our cities, folks. 

Along with Sami and others, here is my Monday Mural.

If you have the stamina, there is quite a lot to see in this mural, taken in Fitzroy, that could well be the area with the highest concentration of murals in greater Melbourne. Maybe Melbourne city has more.

I visited the zoo last week and I did take a couple of animal photos, I took quite a few mural photos, mostly in one area. I've decided to put them in this one post.

A Tasmanian devil.

A variety of a cat, a blue tongue lizard, a superb fairy wren and rainbow lorikeet.

A Sumatran tiger.

And more Tasmanian devils.

Sami hosts Monday Mural, and I am joining with her.

Gedyes is a strange name. For once I will check some detail about the mural, to save Steve the bother.

Damian Cazaly fills in the blanks. I am inclined to agree with his opinion about the demise of the building. 

"Gedye’s Mills in Grattan Street, Prahran was a knitting mill operated by Vincent Gedye who was born in Melbourne in 1872. He lived at 20 Grattan St from 1903 to 1919 but continued operating his mills for many years after. Recently, the Mills have hosted many institutional businesses including Wooten Cordwainer and Leather Craftsmen and The Establishment Studios.

Unfortunately the beautiful old building was demolished in early 2020 for more high density living. Shame on those in the City of Stonnington that approved this destruction of history."

Sami and others participate in the themed Monday Mural.

This day, I am going to use the most boring mural photo I have saved. As I have saved it, maybe there is some merit.

With Sami and others, here is my less controversial mural for this week. 

A kookaburra on the right but what is on the left? A camel? A llama? An alpaca? 

Wednesday before last, lunch with Friend ex Japan. Friday, the building's evening Melbourne Cup barbeque, a few days ahead of the event. 

Thursday was supposed to be a lung scan, but could not be done because I'd had a lung infection about four weeks earlier. It needs to be twelve weeks clear. It is a new scheme, and hopefully this information will be told to people who are booking an appointment in the future. 

Today, a hospital appointment at the movement disorder clinic for my hand tremors, Tuesday a window cleaner is coming, kaching, Thursday Jass to the vet for FV vax, kaching, Friday is neighbour HH's 80th birthday. I've worked out what to buy for her as a gift given she has changed from long black coffee to peppermint tea. It's an advent calendar with all sorts of different teas from a company called T2. Saturday the three of us will see Jo on stage in the lead role in a production of Anything Goes.

Sister, Bone Doctor and Jo will be in Newcastle, England for Christmas, being looked after by Ray's family. Tradie Brother has decided to escort a client to charity Christmas lunch on Christmas Day. What will I do on Christmas Day? I could volunteer at one of these charities? No, they have already all filled their needs for volunteers. Boxing Day will be a big bash at Ex Sis in Laws, but as for Christmas Day, I will be an orphan, all alone in this world. Melbourne Zoo is open on Christmas Day, so perhaps with my annual free pass, I should pack myself a picnic to take to the zoo. How did life come to this, no family gathering on Christmas Day? Shit happens.

This was supposed to be about joining Sami for Monday Mural. Given I've written a bit, I'll use the opportunity to clear out an old mural photo. 

I know not where, but it is nice.

With Sami, here is Monday Mural. 

"Phyllis, stop the car". I took a snap somewhere in Fitzroy. It is not a great work of art, but pleasant to the eye. I am not sure what the purple creature is to the left.