AUSTRALIA ~ The Antipodes

AUSTRALIA ~ The Antipodes
I love a sunburnt country / A land of sweeping plains / Of ragged mountain ranges / Of droughts and flooding rains / I love her far horizons / I love her jewel-sea / Her beauty and her terror / The wide brown land for me / ~ Dorothea Mackellar (1885-1968)

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Sunday, May 25, 2008

Whimsical Landscape

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ This is a pic of Arthurs Seat from bushland by Bunurong Track below. The mountain is always mystical in the mist. I tweaked the image a little to enhance the alluring mystery. It could so easily be a parallel universe; a world within worlds.
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N.B. With petrol at record high levels, I am trying to take pics on the way shopping or going to and from work. I only allow myself small detours to get to the original destination. So pics are always "on the way" to some somewhere locked into the daily routine. Hopefully, the Semester holidays will allow me petrol space (no work drives) to go a little further afield!)
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Writer's Island Prompt ~ Parallel Universe
Inspire Me Thursday ~ Whimsy
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A mountain is nature's cathedral ~
Where the windows are always open
To the heavens ~
Where sculptures
And paintings
Are always
In seasonal fashion
And the door
Is always open
To anyone
Who wishes
To stop awhiles
In a fragrant
Sacred
Space
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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Gemma,
What mystical, whimsical images you have here! Oh my...it DOES look like a parallel universe...like I could step into it right now! Thank you for capturing the magic :) And..thank you for stopping by my blog today. Oh..I LOVE the poems too.
See you next time :)
Cheryl

Deb G said...

Love this picture. It is very magical!

Jeques said...

Then I wish upon heavens that the modern world, the modern man would stop destroying our cathedrals of forest lest we wanted our doors and windows to heavens to vanish forever.

A fresh way of writing, a novel way of expressing your thoughts, Gemma. This is lovely!

I wish you well.

~ Jeques

anthonynorth said...

Mountains just have the mightiness of a deity. Awesome, overpowering.
You say it well, and the pic is great.

Tammie Lee said...

Wonderful photo!
I love your line "mountains are nature's cathedral". I must agree.

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