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Rhodedendrons revisited

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 This is primarily about a return visit to the Dandenong Botanic Gardens, home of the National Rhodedendron Collection.  When we left Frances said words to the effect of "That was soul enhancing."  I agreed with this saying in addition "There was room for that!" I shall justify my comment with a note about  the first half of the drive towards the end of this post, but let us begin with nice pictures of flowers.
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Croquet at Cairnlea

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 A friend is playing croquet for NSW in the Interstate Shield, being played at the Victorian Croquet Centre at Cairnlea.  I thought I should go out there for a squizz.  Looking at the site on Google Earth there didn't look to be a lot of parking on site ... ,,. so I decided to save diesel and go by public transport.  This was a 4 mode saga. Some interesting sites in the Tottenham area as we rumbled West.  The first was the low number of passengers on the train. I read an article about the suburb of Tottenham during the week, mainly devoted to their being no dwellings in the area.  I have just confirmed this in Census Tablebuilder!  The silo in this (underexposed) image has an interesting bit of graffiti. Zooming in the middle 'character is Pam the Bird!  I have no idea what "SC<>RM" means.  I am unsure if 'Uncle Tobys' still operates or if this should be scored as a ghost sign. A little further down the line another set of silos had a s...
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Football (US) at the G

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On 11 September the first ever National Football League (NFL) game in Australia was played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (the G).  They were showing the game on a big screen at Federation Square  so I took myself along to suss out the atmosphere.  There had been talk of a drum line (which I thought was something for killing sharks) along Birragung Marr, but all I could see was this mini jazz band. There was a good crowd going along to the G - about the same as might be going to a popular AFL match, but with different sweaters. At 0930 hrs there were very few people at the Square: by contrast, for the Socceroos games in the World Cup the Square was full - I think 7,000 - at 0500 hrs, an hour before kick off. Here is a view of the (full) G taken from a telecast  - see below. As there was not much happening I went to the Library to pick some reserved books, and swung up to Lonsdale St for a few needed groceries.  As I got back to Flinders St  a flypast went ...
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