Photo Safari :: Museum Edition

Well, how lucky am I?

Last Sunday I got the beautiful opportunity to meet some wonderful women.

Most of them are also lovely bloggers.

And one of them was Pip Lincolne.



After almost a year of being cheered on by Pip since doing her Blog With Pip course it was great to finally meet her in person.  She was just as lovely and engaging as I knew she would be, every bit a warm and sweet as her online persona.

We went to the Melbourne Museum and wandered together chatting and taking photos and chatting and stopping to drink chai and chatting some more.

It was a thoroughly pleasant way to spend a sunny Sunday in Melbourne.

And I topped the afternoon off by wandering through the city and stopping in at the Rally for Justice for Refugees before heading home on the train.

It was a seriously delightful and most relaxing day.

It is just so great to meet these people in person.  And while it sort of sometimes seems a bit strange or nervous making, it's just lovely to consolidate these online relationships with some in person meet ups.

Not only that, but I think these get togethers are helping me fall back in love with Melbourne.

What a great city.  So confident, so understated.  And for me so full of memories.

It's quite rare for me to get into the city these days.  Just for a wander, anyway.  I do go relatively regularly with the kids because they love the Gallery and the Museum.

But whenever I have the chance to just wander aimlessly around Melbourne it always makes me think of those years when the city was my home.  Such good memories.

These days really remind me of me.  And sometimes that's all too easy to forget.

It was a really splendid time.  Here's to more days like them.

Tapestry

Bugs!

Yvette from Bear Loves Dove Rocking the Gray Mane + Awesome Embroidered Top

Wandering the city. Little Bourke, Laneways, Rally for Justice, Flowers

Windmills & Light

Taken by Texture

Pip, Carly, Jaqui, Naomi & Emily Write Letters to the Soldiers.

Bull

X-Rays

Art & Light

Angles

Wheat Tiles

Beautiful Butterflies

More Texture

My Favourite. Light & Angles

Brights

I hope you like these photos.  Since doing the first Photo Safari I'm pretty keen to explore photography more.  I really enjoy it a lot.  I find it quite meditative in the way that it focuses the mind.

Photos by kind strangers & Pip Lincolne (top)
From L-R (Middle Pic) Yvette, Emily, Naomi, Catherine, Jacqui, Carly, Pip, Me, Michelle

And I hope you'll go visit the blogs of the women I met, they are all worth a look so here's a list of handy links if you are looking for some interesting reading:

Naomi: Naomi Loves

Yvette: Bear Love Dove

Emily: Squiggle and Swirl

Jacqui: Bird and Fox

Carly: Tune Into Radio Carly

Michelle: Girl Gone Home

And of course, Pip: Meet Me At Mikes (like you didn't know that already.)

Happy Days.

Have you had any great outings lately?

Listen to The Dream Academy Please Please Please (Let Me Get What I Want) Instrumental 

Ferris Bueller's Day Off