Tesselaar Tulip Festival, Lilydale, Victoria, Oct 2007

Rhonda SG

I joined a Filipino colleague and her room mate to the recent Tulip Festival in Melbourne. I'll let the photos speak for themselves!

Feast your eyes!! Very Happy

Not quite in Holland Laughing

Scene from a Country Calendar... NOT!

Threesome...

OOPS!! I meant, TRIPLETS!!! REALLY!!! Twisted Evil

Pink Tulips from a different angle are still... pink tulips!

Black Beauty aka There's-Nuthin'-That-Genetic-Engineering-Cannot-Create-These-Days-Tulip

OK, more to come... and will someone please shut me up before I make even more totally crappy comments and embarrass myself even further?! Laughing

(And to think I'm not even drunk... yet! Twisted Evil )

Rhonda SG

Waaah! Very English, very countryside, very 1800's! Laughing

Waaah 2 - Kinda like some Home on the Prairie thing!

Waaah 3 - And it goes on forever...

Waaah 4 - ... and ever...

Waaah 5 - ... and ever...

Grouse!! I didn't realise that Waaah 3, 4, and 5 come in ascending sizes, but it's kinda a neat visual effect! Mr. Green

OK, on to the next pics...

Rhonda SG

Not really Fields of Gold, but pretty and arresting nevertheless! Wink

Love, love, LOVE the shade of red here!

My friends thought I was cuckoo taking this photo, but I think I'm just creative! Laughing Twisted Evil

And here it is, a personal favourite - "Fallen Beauty"...

Nice? Nice?? Mr. Green (OK, I shall stop acting like some hyperactive chihuahua who just ate some Mexican Jumping Beans! )

av, this one's for you!

I need to splurge on a better digicam with a kickass zoom lens! This is a bee, btw. I can't tell you if it's the anterior or the posterior though, you insect porn pervert! Laughing Twisted Evil

Baked potatoes, anyone?

Rhonda SG

This space is STILL MINE! Laughing

This nook is so picturesque, it looks good enough for a calendar! Very Happy

The first ... is it a bluebell? ... this Spring! Welcome, Spring!!

There's a sign near the horses telling people not to pet them because of the outbreak of equestrian flu. Razz

I love horses!

And one by one, they all start to break out of the ground to welcome Spring! Very Happy

So delicate, so pretty, so fascinating...

Hmm... for some strange reason, I felt that I have just peeked up the skirt of an innocent blushing tulip! Shocked

Laughing

mhcampboy SG

and this is mine!!

Rhonda SG

Laughing

OK OK, won't charge rent!

mhcampboy SG

Dont mind me!

i want to see more pictures!!!

so pretttttttty!!

Rhonda SG

Solitude...

Another one for that Calendar! Wink

Azaleas!! They bloom with such pure gusto! Very Happy

Another personal favourite! What shall we call this... "God's Thumbprint"? Laughing Razz

Or, "Don't Bark Up My Tree"?

OK, I shall stoppit! Razz I'm a bad pooch today! Twisted Evil

And here it is - "Bark's Rhapsody in Wood"!!

For you, av, I name this, "Saw IV"!

Rhonda SG

No worries, mate! We're just having fun here! Wink

Maurince SG

Yes!! Yes!! Bring me to pretty pretty Australia~ Cool Cool

Rhonda SG

Very pretty, right? Wink

The trip there was really looooooong though! We boarded the Connex train at Flinders Station right in the heart of Melbourne City and it was an hour's ride to Lilydale Station. We had to catch a bus on a 40-minute bus ride to Tesselaar on arrival.

So, the trip there and back took us slightly over 3 hours in total. Razz Add to that the stress of worrying if the infamous Connex train service will be late / postponed / delayed etc because if we missed that bus, the next one will be like 1.5-2 hrs later! Razz

Good thing is, you can eat and drink on the train. Very Happy I sat opposite my colleague and I had the dubious pleasure of watching her stuff her face non-stop throughout the entire journey! Shocked Shocked

Laughing Twisted Evil

elindra SG

Very very pretty pictures!!!!

jetta SG

Wow, wow, wow. I’m a sucker for beautiful flowers and nature’s beauty.

LOTUSfairy SG

Originally posted by Rhonda:

So delicate, so pretty, so fascinating...

this is really beautiful... Razz

littlestream SG

woohoo~~~~~awesome acres and acres of flowers. while i love tulips, i like that blue coloured flowers. what are they? whee whet~~~~

wow! that what azeleas also nice. but they wither fast also. i've bought 2 potted ones before and both died on me. Crying or Very sad Embarassed

thanks for sharing Wink

av98m SG

wow!! so nice!!!! I love the fields of nothing but flowers!!

quite tough to see pretty flowers in singapore Crying or Very sad