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For this week's wordpress challenge “vibrant” is the theme and its epigraph is a quote from Khalil Gibran:
Let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow
Three king parrots offered their vibrant green and red briefly outside my living room window, but I wasn't fast enough to capture them.
Mosaics on toilet blocks are much easier to sieze photographically. This collage consists of fragments of Durras rising, 2014, a pair of mosaics designed by Moira Christie depicting Durras Beach by day and night.
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A beautiful mosaic Meg and so suitable for the vibrant theme. Now if you had captured those King Parrots!!! Toilet art work does seem to be a feature on Aussie loos/dunnies/bogs/thunder box….I have quite a few collected from around Australia
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The parrots love my poison peach (Trema aspera or Trema tormentosa) which is heavy with tiny berries. There’s one out there now, but as soon as I approach camera-ready it takes off.
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They are very nervous birds, but beautiful to watch
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Meg, these are fabulous, and crystal clear! π I was looking for Paula to say a quick happy birthday, and just look what I found π Joy!
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I wish my head was fabulous and crystal clear! I’m sorting the house for the Polish influx, date yet to be announced. We had a monster longdrawnout thunderstorm last night, and driving rain that met me half way into the study to shut the windows, so sleep was somewhat disturbed.
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Poor sleep never helps, Meg, but all will be fine when those little tyrants arrive. I wish I had some little tyrants of my own, sometimes :).
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Lovely mosaics, these remind me of a rental house I lived in a few years ago that had a mosaic in the cloakroom made of bits of broken pottery and shiny buttons, pebbles and shells collected by the family. Totally unique.
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I’ve always liked mosaic. It was one thing I sought in Syria and Jordan. One of the highlights of Petra was watching a young man restoring mosaic: he shared his orange with me. Maybe mosaic would make a good theme? It’s got metaphoric force as well as the beautiful literal.
I’m envious that you actually lived with a mosaic.
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You can always make your own π
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Don’t have the dedication and discipline!
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pffh!
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(Your garden blog WILL NOT display on my iPad. I get the header photo that just keeps scrolling down and down and down in a blur. Over and over again. Is it just to make me go to the pc where the display is infinitely superior anyway?)
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I don’t understand why it doesn’t show properly as the theme is designed for mobile devices. Is it just my blog that does this? The OH has an iPad so I’ll have a look on his, but you probably have a newer one.
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Only your blog. My iPad’s 3+ -a bit older than the twins (who’ll be here tonight.) Don’t angst over it – just expect me to be a bit tardy with comments!
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Just looked at it on OH’s iPad which is even older than yours and I see what you mean. It is the header photo that is the problem. I have no idea why it is not resizing as it does when I resize it on the laptop. I will stop using header photos for now. Thanks for the heads up. And I am sure you will have much more to do than blog – how long are they staying? Are you going back to Poland when they go?
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It’s reassuring to know it’s not just me!
They leave Australia on Feb 12: we leave on March 12. I believe I have to take 365 books if we go for a year, because I’m the babcia who brings books.
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Better buy them when you get there! Happy paddling π
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Very pretty indeed. Sounds like a very cool toilet block.
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And very convenient. The more the better I reckon. I’ll never forget my foray into the men’s loo on Alexandria station because there was no sign of any loos for women. No art work there!!!
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I still have bad memories of the time I went to the male loo at uni when I was overwhelmed with study stress! Have you been to Paris? Trying to find a toilet there is a nightmare.
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I’ve got them mistressed in Warsaw – just have to make sure I have enough 1zΕ in my wallet to pay my way.
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Yes, paying for the loo is a problem. I used to have them mentally mapped out in Cork city when I was visiting my daughter. They cost 1 Euro a go there!
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Lovely shots.
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Do Melbourne or Brisbane offer toilet art??
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LOL none that I’ve noticed but I’m sure it’s there.
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I think the artist would approve of your collage Meg, and what a dreamy quote π
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It was the quote that attracted me to the challenge, and then your post. Once I saw the parrots I began to wonder whether I had anything vibrant and unposted. I was very glad to give a home to these!
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Love these! And they work well as a collage, further enhancing their abstract nature……
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Can you pick the ones from day and the ones from night?
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Ha! I’m not that clever! Except that I would expect the night ones to be duller, left hand and top right and central images???
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Your guess is as good as mine – I cropped the complete ones to get the bits.
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Crafty question, then ….
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And anyway, I’m sure it’s a trick question….π³
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Very pretty pictures! Love their abstract nature.
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I’m not quite sure when the habit of artwork on public toilets began, but I’ve seen some great ones. There was one painted by a women’s surfing group I particularly liked. Is it a particularly Australian quirk, I wonder?
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