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Also at Southern Cross Station, #Melbourne

(And last #TemporaryPictures Now I need a new theme/topic!)

#TrainStations

Southern Cross Station, #Melbourne

#TemporaryPictures #TrainStations #RailTravel

To jump or not to jump...
(Ostia Antica I believe)

#TemporaryPictures #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfBluesky

Colosseum, Rome.
(In B&W because I wanted to see how it would look in a zine I was making.)

#TemporaryPictures #Roman

Isle of the Dead, at the former convict settlemet (place of secondary punishment) of Port Arhur, in the southeast corner of #Tasmania.
Prisoners were buried in unmarked graves on the island, but free people (officials, military, their families ) have headstones.

#Cemeteries #TemporaryPictures

Walking from the dark entrance tunnel into the sunlit, and slightly wet, amphitheatre at #Pompeii.

#TemporaryPictures #Reflections #Roman

Part of the Ring of Brodgar, #Orkney.
It must have been raining. It was about to become a heavy rainstorm and gale.

#StandingStones #Neolithic #LandscapePhotography #TemporaryPictures

Bressay, an island of Shetland (and homes to lots of seabirds)

#TemporaryPictures #Shetland #Bressay #Seascape

View from Underhoull Broch, #Unst (the northernmost inhabited island of #Shetland and the UK).

#TemporaryPictures #LandscapePhotography

Night time at Flinders Street Station, #Melbourne

#NightPhotos #TemporaryPictures #TrainStations #VaguelySinisterBuildings

Bees like oregano

#TemporaryPictures #Bees #Herbs

Monkshood.
It took me a long time to find somewhere to buy these from.

#TemporaryPictures #BloomScrolljng

I thought the catnip flowers were just small, white tubes. Turns out they're actually quite fancy.

#TemporaryPictures #BloomScrolling #LookClosely #Herbs

My "herb garden" last summer just before the big more. It's more of an apothecary's garden, and yes, there's a rose in there. Two.

#TemporaryPictures #GardenPhotos #HerbGardens

Bridestowe Lavender farm

#TemporaryPictures #Lavender #Bloomscrolling #Tasmania

Remains of a #Medieval townhouse in #York, in a yard behind shops

#TemporaryPictures

Once upon a time I had one pitcher plant (and sundews & Venus fly traps bonus seedlings, the VFTs died, the sundews grew and seeded and grew).

#TemporaryPictures #PicturesofPitchers

The start of my "herb garden" (in 2023). For some reason I thought two of these containers would be all I needed. The plants are chamomile (it died, its replacement is... enthusiastic), thyme at the front and over the back looks like hyssop, which struggled for the first few years.
#TemporaryPictures #HerbGardens #ContainerGardening #Optimism

Um, a Louvre ceiling agan. I promise I did look at artworks but those ceilings!

#TemporaryPictures #LookUp #Ceilings #InsidePhotos

Look up!
So when I'm not taking photos of gaming pieces, I'm looking at ceilings.
From the file name, this is the Louvre again.

#TemporaryPictures #LookUp #Ceilings #PhotosOfArt

I just shared these in April.

18th century dominoes, from the castle in the middle of the Louvre. I maybe take too many photos of games.

#TemporaryPictures #OldGames #Dominoes

Two games pieces, from... I can't remember (and the file name is Image1.jpg so I can't search through photos). But they're very nice right?

#TemporaryPictures #OldsGames

Entrance into the#amphitheatre at #Pompeii
From the dark tunnel into the bright, busy central arena.

#TemporaryPictures #Roman

Fingal Railway Station c.2010. I thought I'd heard something about it being restored for community use but when I went to check I ended up in places no one should have to look at.

#TemporaryPictures #Fingal #Tasmania #RailwayStations

Site of the railway station near Clarendon Estate, northern #Tasmania

Passenger rail services ended in 1978. Many of the stations, specially the smaller ones, have since been removed. Some have been reused. Others just sit there, unloved.

#RailwayStations #TemporaryPictures

Roman Baths, Bath

#Bath #Roman #TemporaryPictures

I don't know what this is.
Fairly sure it's upside down though.
Also, it's from the museum in Launceston

#WhatIsIt #Unknown #TemporaryPictures

Lavandula angustifolia (English lavender). I think this was taken just after we'd visited Bridestowe lavender farm, for contrast 🙂

It is still flowering in the mid-winter

#TemporaryPictures #Lavender #Bloomscrolling

1 I have a folder on my desktop "Temporary Pictures". It has photo I've edited or put aside to use for something later. It's a eclectic mixture. So, one a day, in the order they are in the folder #TemporaryPictures.

Two horn #spoons from the museum in Launceston. Their accompanying information says they were made at Port Arthur (prison settlement) but I have my doubts about this.

The right spoon is apparently typical of those made for institutional use in Britain. The left one is typical of a spoon made to imitate a silver spoon, probably intended for domestic use (maybe in a household that wants the latest fashion but doesn't have the income)

Horn spoons were made by flattening and heating (usually cattle) horn one end in a mould. With the right the skills and equipment, they're cheaper to make/sell than a metal spoon.
I've found no evidence so far that spoons/cutlery of any sort was made at Port Arthur.

Or that horn spoons were ever made in Tasmania (or Australia for that matter). They were imported and they were used in NSW institutions.

In a society where everything was imported, you'd think there'd be a market for goods that could be made easily from readily available materials.