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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Thursday, July 31, 2008

Temporary gamble omitted?

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Old shed at Main Ridge, Mornington Peninsula
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3WW prompt #XCVII ~ gamble + omitted + temporary
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In fragile spaces
Old sheds live out old stories
No fractured secret
Omitted
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Old farm machinery at Main Ridge
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In some farm pastures
Rusted metal memories
Smile wryly at the
Gamble
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Pumps at Main Ridge
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Lonely sentinels
Visionary left-overs
Motionless
Unmasked
Temporary?
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6 comments:

paisley said...

i have an affinity for old out of use items.. the second one is my favorite...

gautami tripathy said...

I like the first one!

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A Wild Thing said...

Ahhhh, the rust of the Ausie. Of course you know this makes my heart PING...It is my dream to visit the land some day down under. It is so similar to the states, yet so foreign, a world away. I'll keep playing my didge and dreaming of the Dromana shores...ahhh, beautiful history with rusting paths.

sharon

TC said...

I always hate seeing abandoned things. I feel like they should still get some use.

TC said...
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Tumblewords: said...

Beautiful photos and words...it always disturbs me to find that history/old receive so little tlc.
Your post is great!

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