paradise in a parking lot & a little more art deco

Walking Sunday morning through the streets of Cairns as the wind whipped up the branches and rain fell in sudden bursts, only to disappear just as quickly...

and below, spotted on a drive exploring Cairns North is Charlston House, an art deco lover's delight... This is a truly remarkable piece of local architecture, bringing a whole new meaning to the word 'character'.  The house is a rambling old Queenslander, now split into a series of apartments with the most incredible series of 'add ons' over time that have created a true architectural curiosity that oozes love and weaves its own unique charms... 

 and a web of tent spiders at Tony and Felicity's house in Stratford.  I have been watching this particular web grow and grow now since October last year and the number of spiders it currently holds is utterly daunting [when you are - as i was - taking this photograph standing underneath the actual web]. This image [as with many of the images in this post] has been taken using Hipstamatic.  Yes it is fair to say that at present I am rather enamored with Hipstamatic - stay tuned though - i will be sporadically rekindling my love for the rectangle, and the clear, unadulterated image...  any day now...