A small eatery in South Melbourne (which in olden days was known as Emerald Hill, which I think is much more romantic and wish it were still called by that name). Only open for breakfast and lunch. They are real caterers too and the food they offer in the café shows that skill. The food is good and reasonably priced.The male owner is nice too! A little ‘gay’ in his manner, meaning sociable and friendly, he certainly makes me feel welcome whenever I visit; he even tries to remember my name and that’s a feat in itself! ‘Gayness’ is a quality I appreciate in people in the service industries and wish other workers would take a leaf from their style.
Lately, too, I keep bumping into him while he’s walking his dog, a golden retriever, and I’ve commented he must live locally, to which he replied he lives above the shop. Aahh, how handy, I said! Brought back memories, now long gone, of wanting to own an old Victorian style building, two storeys, with the shop at street level and my residence above. It would be at a small seaside holiday town of some kind and offering true coffee to buy and drink (I would be the highly trained barista and ground coffee-beans mixer) with true European home-made cakes, and, being very small, it would also show my photographic works on the walls which would be for sale. I would also, then, offer those same walls for local artists to exhibit just a few times a year. Lovely idea! Now, you’re saying to yourself, well why don’t you do it? Something called money and energy, unfortunately of which I have neither, sadly.
The above image was taken inside the café at the front counter. The day I took a few shots of this plant we had a chat about it as I’d never seen it before. No-one really knew its name and guessed it to be an asparagus flower as, when it is still in bud, so to speak, it looks like a stalk of asparagus. Therefore, that’s what I’ve called it! Here’s an album of a few more of them, which I hope you’ll like. Let me know what you think, as I’ve given different treatments to some of them, mostly using Picasa and one using virtualStudio.
