<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" I love watching a happy dog play in the water as their owner strolls along side. Can you imagine the opposite? While pondering this question I remember a scene back in summer here where a couple of small children played in much the same way in the tiny surf while a … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" This view of the The Lamson Rapid Wire System shows both its simplicity and complexity. To send the cart the clerk would pull down slowly on the pull-chord until the the launching frame was held under stretched elastic against a stop. On release the the launcher would send the cart flying … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" The beautiful zebra plant would have you believe it boasts beautiful bright yellow flowers which last all through the winter. You’d be mistaken. Now a common indoor plant, Aphelandra squarrosa is native of Brazil. It gets its common name from its striking striped foliage which gives no clues at all to … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" I have read that the ideal ‘landscape’ has three key elements; the foreground, the middle ground and background. With that in mind I decided to look for something washed ashore. These two washed up lumps of sea weed may not be the most exotic foregrounds imaginable but at short notice and … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" What caught my eye in this image was the way the reflections of the sky, the beach, the jetty and the sunset seems to perfectly balance the the light coming from within the Thai Orchid restaurant. Like a perfect fusion of two worlds, beautifully set dining tables seem to float over … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Emily Davis had the crowd in the palm of her hands as she wooed them with her bluesy tones at the Wheatsheaf the other night. This was my first time at the Wheatsheaf on Goeorge Street and it will certainly not be my last. We listened a bit, chatted some, drank … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" There is a strange device hanging from the ceiling of the top floor of Adelaide’s Malcolm Reid building. In 1885 Robert McCarty patented a system of carrying packages on a wire and his invention was licensed to the Rapid Service Store Railway Company of Detroit. In 1887 Lamsons took control of … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" When I first started preparing this image I was not sure which way to take it. There is a lot going on and I am still not sure if it is all too busy. All my attempts to draw the eye to one subject seems to fail as I found my … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" No sooner had I decided on a title for this image and I had Abba songs coming to mind! Perhaps the recent Eurovision Song Contest had a little to do with it as well! In any case this image really has nothing to do with any of those! I have collected … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Our sea grasses are a very important part of the local coastal ecosystem. As well as providing important habitat for many creatures unique in the world to our southern shores they are also important nurseries for commercial fish species. My very first encounter with our coastal sea grass took place in … Read more