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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Tuesday, November 4, 2008

My World of Vineyards


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Entrance to Tuck's Ridge Vineyard at Red Hill, Mornington Peninsula
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That's My World Tuesday prompt #3
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While water worlds are a large part of my landscape on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia, there are many other worlds here. Vineyards are tucked into hilly landscapes. There are many boutique vineyards, especially in my southern area of the peninsula.
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Hilly vineyard landscape at Tuck's Ridge
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Some, like Montalto Vineyard at Red Hill, like to incorporate unusual artwork into their landscape
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Some, like Stillwater Crittendon Estate at Dromana, offer holiday villas by small lakes on the estate and boutique restaurants.
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Some wine tasting heartlands look like unusual homes. This is Darling Park winery at Red Hill.
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Boutique art galleries thrive in the vineyard worlds. This is the whimsical entrance to Noel's Art Gallery at Main Ridge. It is surrounded by wineries.
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The art of Nature
Painting a portrait of wine
Romance for the soul
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ I especially love the olde worlde romance of this image. It is a picket fence at the entrance to Seawinds vineyard at Main Ridge.
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23 comments:

Rambling Woods said...

Wow..I enjoyed the Ruby Tuesday and My World postings...

Mojo said...

Wow. If you converted these shots to greyscale you'd have Monochrome Monday covered for weeks! I especially like the first and last ones. There's a quiet dignity about them.

And I have to say, that's an unique way to use an old wooden boat!

Anonymous said...

Those are amazing photos! I'd like to be in that field of vineyard! The boat looks very cool in that position:)

Mine is up too, HERE. If you get a chance;)

Louise said...

Very nice post. I like the grounds of this place.

Leslie: said...

I love all your photos, and I must say I do enjoy an Australian wine once in a while. Have you ever had any British Columbia wine?

 gmirage said...

That artwork is eyecatching! But all in all, each of your photo is a beauty, the last one gives hints of fog or perhaps dusk is close?

I should try visiting the Austrian vineyards soon (yeah, because of your posts!) =D

EG CameraGirl said...

How nice to live to live near vineyards, Gemma. The grapes must be beginning to grow now, eh?

imac said...

Bottle of your best vintage please.lol.
Nice place too.

Sylvia K said...

Love all your photos AND your music! And I wouldn't mind a bottle of your wine either. Thanks!

This Is My Blog - fishing guy said...

Gemma: What a really neat view at the winery. You made some neat captures of the area.

Jeanne said...

Beautiful. I love the fence and the shot of the artwork. Looks like a canoe protecting a tree.

A Wild Thing said...

I love to wonder through the landscape of your homeland. The vineyards and euchalyptus trees reminds me alot of California.

A quiet beauty that I'm sure you are truly at home with, I hope your new home is as magical and your walks and photos ring of the same love of life.

Thinking of you and David as you move to the new abode. Hope all is well friend.

sharon

Unknown said...

Hi,
I enjoyed looking around your blog. You take some beautiful photographs!

Carletta said...

What a wonderful tour! They each have unique ways of grabbing one's attention.
I loved the boat and the wagon.
This was a real enjoyment. Now if I only had a glass of wine.

Baruch said...

Great selection of photos - love the one with the artwork! Gemma, I’m bestowing your blog a ‘Blogging Friends Forever’ award in my 5 November post. Rules, etc. will all be there should you want to continue the thread.

david mcmahon said...

What a lovely selection.

Anonymous said...

It was very pleasant trip with you, thanks a lot!

Arija said...

Gemma, for my money we hsve far too many wineries in Australia. Most of our arable as well as grazing land is being turned into irrigation grape growing. We are exporting our precious water in cardboard and bottles and soon will have insufficient food production to be self sufficient and farming know-how will have died out as well. That all sounds gloomy, but the writing is already
on the wall.

??? said...

The last photos is just awesome. The whole post is most definitely not what I would have expected from Australia, some of it looks like it could be five minutes from here.

D Herrod said...

Wow. I really want to visit your country.

Unknown said...

Fascinating post and great piccies, I love Australian wine :-)

Anonymous said...

Ah, I love Australian wines. I'll have to add these names to my list to try.

Thanks for sharing your world with us.

Oman said...

i love all your pics but the 3rd and the last one are my favorites because they are quite extraordinary and interesting. great job.

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