So with a HUGE thanks to @lilideleopolis for inviting me here, I say hello to you all and hope that you are all diving into a new year full of amazing adventures, fantastic health, and an abundance of love, peace, harmony, prosperity and happiness!
So I would like to share with you a brief story about Victory and Views for my first post here and if you would like to share a life story- or a lifetimes worth of #LifeStories here then click on this link to find out how https://peakd.com/c/hive-156687/created
In my heart, I really want to share with you a story about my mum, as it would have been here 81st birthday today and we lost her to Stage 4 bowel cancer 4 years ago instead and I would love that to be a story of Victory, but it wasn't and it's a long and complicated story, one of which I will tell one day when I can put the words together, so instead, I will say Vale to my beautiful Mum Lola and instead take you on another story of a short and sweet adventure and the victory to go with it.
This was Mum in the dress that she handmade for her 21st birthday in 1962 AND I still have this dress 60 years to this day later.
Anyway, my short and sweet Victorious adventure started a few weeks ago when I saw the neighbours moving out and as much as I wanted to check out their apt, it just slipped my mind and time flew by without a second thought about it.
Then after a boiling hot, sweaty and stinky day out in the sun capturing landscapes, rivers, Villages for @tattoodjay wonderful #WednesdayWalk community yesterday here https://peakd.com/hive-155530/@chocolatescorpi/a-wonderful-wednesday-walk-in-warm-warrandyte-steels-creek-and-kangaroo-ground (which is also in part a story about historical Villages) I came home to see a bunch of random people getting off the lift next to me and walking ahead of me past my apt and since there is only 2 other doors past my door...
And I thought this is quite weird and strange and I wonder what they are doing, as these apt complexes are quite safe (but not completely secure..) and so if you see a stranger, that is usually not a good thing.
Anyway so I get to my front door and notice a stream of people walk out of my next door neighbours apt door as the other people were going in and then I realised, it was inspection time for the newly vacated apt!
So I raced into my apt, dumped my backpack, tripod and camera gear and sat for a moment, wondering what to do (like I said, I was hot, stinky and sweaty and these guys were all nice and fresh and clean- I think..🤣.)
And then I thought stuff it, grabbed my iphone and boldly went where the others did, and held up my iphone like they were.
Except I went straight out onto the balcony, opened up the camera and shot these photos of this amazing View that I have been dying to see since I moved in here a year ago!
And so this is the view from the 28th floor (and there's 36 floors here- which is now a short skyscraper compared to all the new ones around me at 100+ floors...😬😬😬😬😬😬..)
And the river in the centre is the famous Yarra River, the main artery flowing through the heart of Melbourne
Looking west-north west over the roof tops of the Crown Casino and the MCEC- Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre and docklands and the shipping docks in the distance too.
And this is looking towards the centre of the CBD, where you can just see the old red brick building of Flinders St Station slightly right of centre in between the 2 silver skyscrapers way back there in the far distance.
And so if I also live on the 28th floor and this is my next door neighbours apt, what wrong with my View I hear you ask.
Well nothing really. Nothing at all (except I face the east- the dreaded morning sun (I'm a BIG nightowl.🤣..) and as you can see, I look directly out onto other skyscrapers so close...and these were taken on the 2nd Oct last year from my balcony.
(the redbrick of the historical Flinders St station through the centre there...)
And I think you can see why I really wouldn't want to be any higher than I am now, especially in the one with the yellow star on top as that's 108 stories high.
Infact, I really don't even want to be this high, as when the fire alarms go off and we have to evacuate, I have to walk down 28 flights of stairs! (so lucky I don't have to walk up them though..😱...🤣..)
But atleast I do have a roof over my head as there are far, far too many people out there that don't, so I give thanks that I am so damn lucky!
Anyway, I hope that you enjoyed my little story about Victory and Views and please don't hesitate to join me to have a virtual #WednesdayWalk through some of Victoria's most diverse and intriguing countryside and villages too!
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My vertigo has kicked in. I live on the first floor and that's high enough for me. I couldn't take any photos as I'd be too busy hanging on to something. Great views though!
Haaa yeah well it took me along time to be able to go out and sit comfortably on the balcony of my last apt- which was only on the 9th- which was perfect actually.
Unfortunately I had to move out of that one because the landlord needed to sell and this one was the only around at the time.
And in this one, I still don't go out there too much (mainly because of the weather and also feeling so exposed..) but when I first moved in here, it took a long time to get used to the hieght.
I'm ok if I look out towards the horizon, but once I look down....noooooo
And yes great views, but still, I'd rather be practical and live lower...
Just reading your reply has made me feel giddy. You need to stick to the ground floor so that I can cope!
Sometimes I do agree myself! 🤣
Hi @chocolatescorpi, what an interesting story! Your mom looks beautiful in that lovely dress, she must have been an excellent seamstress. Your photo reminded me of my mom, who in the 60's also dressed like that, gloves and all, it really was a different time. The views you share with us are beautiful, as you can see the contrast of those imposing buildings with the misty sky. Great photos. Greetings.
Thanks for your life story. Sincere condolences for losing your mom.
The views from the windows are just wonderful!! In your apartment and in your neighbors too. Skyscrapers are something that is very rare in my country:))) It would be interesting to see it live!
(But I will make a small remark: it would be worth giving other photo on the screen saver, because the vertical image is cropped. If you could edit it...)
Thanks for the condolences, but we all have to go one day in one way or another and she was lucky that she did get to 76 as so many millions around the world don't.
Yes the views are fantastic, but so very HIGH....our skyscrapers for residential living are really only popping up in the last 10yrs and the ones that were already up before then for residential living were mainly the low income community housing, where they pay about $80 pweek for trillion dollars views..
And I would love to have you say at my place and be your tour guide one day when you get to visit Oz!
As for the cropping, I use peakd only to post so didn't know that's what happens when it is on the other front end....
Thanks for your article!
I also use peakd or hive.blog. By the way, in the computer and smartphone the system cuts the photo on the screensaver in different ways. Therefore, I recommend always putting the first photo, which has a horizontal or "landscape" orientation. Then we will avoid cutting off heads or faces.
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Wow such an interesting post you've made @chocolatescorpi friendship thanks for sharing.
It's been a long while since we last talked hope your fine 😊
Thank you I'm glad that you enjoyed it and I'm sure very eye opening (and scarily eye closing🤣) to be at such a height and see so many other skyscrapers.
I think that we have some of the tallest in the world, though this one is only 36 stories. and the new ones are all 100+...😱😬
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