Ive just been walking around and there are just so many creative Melbournians!! Amazing gardens and houses. Yes I know gentrification.. but just on a creative level.. there is so much great stuff. Not the better homes and gardens type stuff. But just pure creativity. So much funky stuff!!! From gardens.. heaps of native gardens. Yum I love it!!! Those weeping gums, with their gorgeous brown silver branches and their weeping forms, all sinuous and delicious (im addicted to random curvy swirly lines!) delicate eucalyptus leaves.. like tear drops.. and their puffy sweet bright pink fluff fluff flowers! And blends of architecture.. the old, the verandahs and stain-glass windows, the weather-boards and those glass doors. You know the ones with etched pictures on them, art deco nana homes. And then the 1950's yellow brick big window homes with the concrete footpaths edged by some standard roses. Noice lawns... but people are just doing great stuff. The funk is spreading. The funk is spreading. People are getting creative all over the place!! Get into it people!!! Plant more trees!!!! Gardens make a home for me anyway. Surrounded by trees and the birds they bring and the clean clean air. Cool in summer. Love it. The more native the better. If you build it they will come.