Galleries
Brisbane’s CBD Farmer’s Market

by
Sandra
10/07/2009 | in:
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Every Wednesday from 10 am to 6 pm there is a farmers market in the heart of downtown Brisbane. Local and neighboring farmers (some from up in Cairns) come down to sell their wares. My shopping for the week all came to a total of Aussi $22! Pretty cheap! We had real awesome guacamole that night, and delectable mango lassi the next morning.
Location
Reddacliff Place
Top of the Queen Street Mall, 266 George Street, Brisbane CBD
City Farmers Market Review
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TAGS: Australia, avocado, Bakery, Brisbane, farmers market, limes, Sandra, slideshow, strawberry
Hitch-hiking the “Big Island”
While traveling around the “Big Island” of Hawaii, one could find themselves in a lush rainforest or in the middle of a lava field. The Big Island hosts eleven different climate zones, and there is so much to explore!! Hitching rides from the friendly, easygoing locals and hearing their stories is my favorite way to navigate this island!
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TAGS: Big Island, Hawaii, Hilo, Kona, lava, moon, palm trees, volcano, waterfall
Butterfly Hope

by
hellaD
09/10/2009 | in:
Galleries,
Wildlife
Beautiful butterflies of Neversink, New York. Red Admirals and Eastern Tiger Swallowtails hang out on lovely pink milkweed blossoms.
Butterflies represent hopeful transformation and in this period of transition they are a powerfully symbolic medicine to show us the path to a new way of being.
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TAGS: butterfly, Galleries, hope, milkweed, Neversink, red admiral, tiger swallowtail, transformation
Beautiful Bolivia
Bolivia, officially Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country in central South America. The Bolivian population, estimated at 9 million, is multiethnic, including Amerindians, Europeans, Asians and Africans. The main language spoken is Spanish, although the Aymara and Quechua languages are also common. The large number of different cultures within Bolivia has contributed greatly to a wide diversity in fields such as art, cuisine, literature and music.
They had a unique way of growing their gardens, which was on terraces.
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TAGS: Bolivia, Galleries, gardens, goats, mountains, sheep, South America, terraces
Journey to Peru
Machu Picchu is situated on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba Valley in Peru. Machu Picchu is called “The Lost City of the Incas’ and is 8,000 feet above sea level.
Machu Picchu was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983.
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TAGS: inca, llama, machu picchu, peru, photo, ruins, urubamba
Wild Critters of New York

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hellaD
08/27/2009 | in:
Galleries,
Wildlife
Turtles, salamanders, squirrels, spiders, preying mantis, milkweed bugs and other insects–just a few of the local wild-life enjoying the wilderness or the urban areas of New York state.
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TAGS: animals, chipmunk, critters, insect, preying mantis, salamander, slideshow, spider, squirrel, turtle
Seattle – Portland Amtrak
This is such a beautiful train ride. All up and down the West Coast is gorgeous and we all know, the train is the way to go. They have fantastic windows in the train.
We go through Tacoma and past Boeing, it is a really interesting ride–a pretty good glimpse into the All American Hometown style.
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TAGS: amtrak, oregon, pacific, portland, railroad, seattle, train, USA, Washington, westcoast
Bullfrogs and Tadpoles

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hellaD
08/24/2009 | in:
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Wildlife
The big fat bullfrog hiding in the reeds here reminds me of the children’s books Frog and Toad.
Frogs are dying rapidly around the world at the moment, almost half of them are threatened with extinction. They can’t handle the pollution in our water ways or the chytrid fungus that is rapidly killing amphibians. The site Amphibian Ark is a great resource for information and how you can get involved to preserve frogs for future generation.
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TAGS: amphibian, amphibian ark, bullfrog, chytrid fungus, extinct, frog, nature, pond, slideshow, tadpoles, Wildlife
Images of London
Probably everyone has a set of photos of London! Here’s Big Ben, The Eye of London and a few other scenes for those of you who don’t. The Green Man watches over all.
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TAGS: big ben, eye of london, Galleries, green man, London, slideshow, UK
Unique Fungus Slideshow I

by
hellaD
08/19/2009 | in:
Galleries,
Wildlife
Mushrooms are such amazing and strange things, some are so cute, some are nasty and smelly, some are just out of this world. These photos are of mushrooms from all over the world, and I am not a mushroom expert so I don’t know what they are, I just love the variety, colors and textures.
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TAGS: fungus, Galleries, mushroom, nature, wild