:: Floral Friday - Something Romantic ::

 Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred or greed, but I don't see that It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know, none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around. - Love, Actually

To me, romance is loving with your whole heart. It's knowing you're not alone.

"Floral Fridays is a monthly photography project with different themes each month. This series is about fun and taking time out to smell the flowers. To play along, please email Trishie (trishie@underlockandkeyblog.com) for next month's theme."

:: Melbourne - Second Wedding Anniversary (Part Three) ::

Yep, you read the title right. Another post about Melbourne. I promise this will be the last one. I'm dedicating this post to 'everything else' - the buskers, the cafes, the trams ... the little things that make Melbourne so special.

In case you missed them, here are part one and part two.

If you ever go to Melbourne, Sydney or Adelaide make sure you check out Haighs chocolate. Seriously. So good.

Mario was awesome. He was such a good guitar player (and poser, haha).

I am in love with The Little Library.

The back courtyard at The Vegie Bar. Such a fantastic restaurant - great service, great vegetarian and vegan menu (as well as gluten free options), with the added bonus of being on my favourite street in Melbourne - Brunswick Street, Fitzroy.

Melbourne Airport has love locks! Who knew!

Now I want to go back!

:: Melbourne - Second Wedding Anniversary (Part Two) ::

Mr LG and I have been to Melbourne a few times, sometimes for wedding anniversaries and sometimes just because. It's our favourite place to go on holidays. This year was my first time visiting the Melbourne Zoo. I love zoo's and it's always bummed me out that Brisbane doesn't have a proper one. The closest we have is Australia Zoo which is on the Sunshine Coast and while it is awesome, it still doesn't have all the animals that other zoo's have. The day we went the temperature hit 43 degrees (celsius - that's 109.4F, so you can imagine how hot it was!). So freaking hot! It was an awesome day though and I can't wait to go back again.

This poor guy was hiding in the shade.

I love this peacock photo because there is actually a wire fence between us. I used my manual focus to focus on the peacock and not the fence. You can sort of see it around his face - the little lines through the bokeh around his head is actually blurred fence.

My favourite zoo animal is the otters. They weren't in their enclosure when we were there which was sad. I also like red pandas. What's your favourite animal to see at the zoo?

Loved the little guy who landed on my shoulder while we were in the butterfly enclosure.