The weather has turned cold now. Joel and I have quietly traded our weekly excursions for dinners instead — less wandering, more warm plates and familiar conversations. Perhaps that is what growing older really is: not surrendering adventure, but shrinking it into smaller, gentler rituals that fit inside winter evenings.
What grates on me lately is the endless sight of mobile speed cameras hidden inside parked cars across country Victoria, while the roads themselves decay into patched scars and widening potholes. Entire stretches of country freeway feel abandoned to neglect, dangerous and crumbling year after year. There is something profoundly dispiriting about watching public money funnelled into surveillance while the very roads people depend upon are left to rot beneath their tyres. Each drive becomes a quiet reminder that priorities have drifted far from the lives they were meant to serve.
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Precioso macro que permite apreciar en todo sus detalles esos hongos.
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A very lovely photo.
ReplyDeletethat is sad about your roads. Here, we have many potholes, and it seems they don't fix the worst ones. Who knows what they base their choices on. The fungi shot is amazing. They look like they are wrapped in shiny plastic wrap.
ReplyDeleteVeo que aunque el tiempo se vuelva mas frio y como nos dices es mas apetecible un buen plato caliente que una excursión campestre o callejera, antes pudiste captar unas imágenes preciosas de hongos.
ReplyDeleteCreía que lo de los radares fijos o móviles eran solo un suplicio solamente nuestro, les tenemos de tramo, móviles, por dron y por helicóptero. Y el estado de las carreteras por lo que nos comentas es similar.
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So a common experience among the world settlers
Delete...a magical, miniature world.
ReplyDeleteThe mushrooms look happy in this environment. I am sorry to hear about the deterioration of your highways. Monitoring cameras are everywhere these days.
ReplyDeleteSpeed cameras aren't much of a thing here. I guess that is the benefit of having a right-of-centre provincial government. But they could still do better with the roads. lol
ReplyDeleteUna buena macro con brillantes colores.
ReplyDeleteEls diners públics ja saps a on van, oi?
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Similar situation here--- Upper income folks pay a much smaller percentage of their income in taxes now than they did in the 50's. MUCH smaller. And that would have to change before we can go back to the kind of building and maintenance that we had then. Ah--- don't get me started!
ReplyDeleteHaha It always triggered a conversation
DeleteLooks amazing
ReplyDeleteSeems you had a good time when there photographing these wonderful natural fungi...lovely.
ReplyDeleteAwesome macro shot. Take care, have a great day and happy week ahead.
ReplyDeleteMuy bella imagen macro, amigo.
ReplyDeleteGenial.
I keep forgetting that our seasons are opposite. We are just warming up -- or trying to! I love the idea of warm plates and familiar conversations as your alternative to cold-day shoots! (And this is lovely, by the way.)
ReplyDeleteAlso nice but I like the blue ones more.
ReplyDeleteThe magic that is fungi.
ReplyDeleteBeautifully captured.
ReplyDeleteOh, that one is fun! Aren't they fascinating? Your photography is amazing!
ReplyDeleteThat is amazing :-D
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Much love
Love the colors. A great shot.
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Have a fabulous Awww Monday and week. ☺
As we get older and frailer, we struggle with it every day. It’s a bit of a rollercoaster. Sometimes things go better, and other times – who knows what I’ve overdone – I have to take more breaks. You’re doing it just right. And I really admired this photograph.
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Unfortunately we live in a state where public money is recklessly spent on projects that are not thought through properly, nor costed responsibly, nor checked for honesty. $15 billion is an estimated conservative cost of corruption, extortion, and project blowouts on the state's $100+ billion "Big Build" infrastructure program, allegedly linked to Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU) misconduct... Potholes? What potholes? No money in that... Thanks for taking part in the "My Sunday Best" meme.
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