Walk!

There are banners on the streets of Sydney with the names of cities and countries.

I could not figure out what they were.

Until a friend of mine visiting from Manila explained that these were what the pedestrian crossing men look like in the different parts of the world.  

It is part of the Art & About Sydney  banner gallery.

In all honesty, nobody really paid much attention to the pedestrian lights in the home country.  (The Australians take it quite seriously here.  In fact, I saw someone get caught for jaywalking in the city last week.)  But it didn't occur to me until yesterday that the walking men look different around the world.

Check out the walking man ... and look right and left (or left and right, as the case may be) ... before crossing the street.   Stay safe!

Snailovation

Snailovation  ... they are all over Sydney as part of the Art & About Sydney.

Seems they come in orange, yellow, pink and blue.

Birds and the Bags

While the people at the mall are looking at these bags ...

... I am fascinated by the birds.

 Remember the ones at the flower shop?

I wasn't looking at the flowers there either.

When the Big Becomes the Little

RD walked to the mall with me on the first day of spring.

(He was in a sleeveless shirt, I was wearing a jacket.)

It was nice of him to keep me company.

Plus, he was there to help carry the bags

and pose for pictures.

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I had RD stand by the coffee shop display so I could take a picture of him

and the Nutella they had on the counter.

(OK, I admit it.  I wanted a picture of the Nutella and of him.)

Can you see the size of that Nutella?   

There were actually three containers stacked on top of each other.  

The big one was quite big.  I suppose that is the smallest size they'd sell at Costco.

The one in the middle is the normal sized one you'd see in the grocery.

The tiny one is probably good for just a single serving.

Nutella ... yum!   That's about the size of it.
(Yeah, yeah.  I know it is mostly sugar.)

It's More Fun in the Philippines

I was about to cross the road

to catch mass at St. Patrick's one morning.

When I spotted this long bus.

The light was red so I was able to take a decent shot.

The ad said,

Parking.  More fun in the Philippines.

Hhhmmmm.... 

Then a couple of days later,

I saw yet another bus along a busy Sydney street.

This one had a different Philippine ad.

It said, 

Morning rush.  More fun in the Philippines.

(Sorry for the blurry photo.  The bus was about to move and I was still unlocking my phone.)

Clearly, these ads were not referring to the shopping malls during Christmas time

nor to the morning rush along EDSA on a daily basis.

So I had to look up what these were all about.

What can I say?    It Is More Fun in the Philippines

First Day of Spring

It's the first day of Spring and the weather is beautiful.

Here are some pictures I took when MacGyver and I

took and impromptu walk during our anniversary.

Oh, this one was on sale in the Reject Shop.

I have this thing for maple leaves 

and I just love the orange hues in nature.

These are the odds and ends of things that catch my eye.