Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Mystic roses from 2008 Spring in Dromana, Mornington Peninsula
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Today's Flowers #42
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Soft Spring yesterdays
When pale petals dreamed in mauve
Mystic memories
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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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SONGS ABOUT AUSTRALIA
- Damien Leith - his citizenship ceremony in Tenterfield + he sings "Tenterfield Saddler" - Australia Day 2007
- "I Still Call Australia Home" - Peter Allen's beautiful song sung by the Outback Singers - absolutely stunning!
- "I Am Australian" - delightful Australian images synchronise with a song of the Australian spirit - The Seekers
- "Great Southern Land" - the deepest wells of the Australian spirit - Icehouse (1989)
Australian Photography, Painting & Music Links
- Tia Kane Art - Chinese art through Australian eyes
- Kieran Murphy - Amazing 19yr old (2008) guitarist - Melbourne = "The Chase"
- Ian Wallace - Award winning photographer from Tasmania
- Lindsay Buckland - Music - Eclipse of the Common Sense - Melbourne, Australia
- Andonis - Heroic Mosaic Art - Melbourne Australia
- Michelle Wrighton - Pet Portrait Artist - Perth, Western Australia
- David Webb's Nature Photography - Queensland
- Robert Todonai - Painter of Australian Life & Landscapes - Western Australia
General Interest Australian Websites
- Australia's Weirdest Wineries
- Mornington Peninsula Tourism
- HaikuOz
- Unusual Facts About Australia ~ Some serious, mysterious and fun
- Desert Art - Broken Hill NSW
- The True Blue Roo Poo Company - Funny gifts from Down Under
- Scribbly Gum
- Truly Australia - Travel Australia
- ABC Rural Australia
- ABC Northern Tasmania
- Australian Snapshots
- Message Stick - Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Online
Archive of Blog Quotes
- A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. ~James Dent
- Autumn is an introspective season when stray thoughts of the mind dive into the mystique of the soul - Gemma Wiseman
- Autumn is the bridesmaid of Summer and the flowergirl of Winter ~ Gemma Wiseman
- Autumn whispers the tones of yesterday in a minor key ~ Gemma Wiseman
- Love is born / With a dark and troubled face, / When hope is dead / And in the most unlikely place; / Love is born, / Love is always born. - Michael Leunig's Christmas Song Cycle "Southern Star"
- Spring paints the stars of heaven in Earth colours ~ Gemma Wiseman
- Summer sizzles with a sibilant hush / Broken by dreams of / Clinking ice ~ Gemma Wiseman
- The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul. - G.K. Chesterton
- Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all. - Stanley Horowitz
- Winter is the fire, simmering lonely in the soul ~ Gemma Wiseman
- Winter is the shadow, the etching of the seasons in the mist ~ Gemma Wiseman
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13 comments:
I love 'mauve, misty memories...it is just too weird how your world is going to winter and mine to summer, we are just too far away!
I have to commute over an hour to the new store, so my shadows will be late on Tracey's post, but as soon as I get home I join the gang...'cept I was a little late, I cultivated the corn and picked strawberries before I turned on the PC...ahhh, the life of a farmer(wannabe)...
Hugs busy friend!
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What lovely flowers. Looking at this photo makes me long for spring. I guess we have a while to wait... ;)
Great title and photo!!
Aloha from the NORTH Pacific (Spring!)
Gemma: Beautifully captured with the fence as a background.
So natural, enchanting and fragile.
Wonderful roses.
What a wonderful color those are. I had some but they not have a tinge of red in them.
I would love to have a garden like that. Wow ...
Those flowers are gorgeous- such big blooms.
That Rose looka so much like my dreamy romantic 'Lilac Time'.
Hi Gemma
Marvelous view and wonderful flowers!
Thanks for posting for TODAY'S FLOWERS.
Luiz
Simply lovely ... haiku and flowers.
Hugs and blessings,
stunning lilac rose flowers.
Hi Gemma, lovely lavender roses. Great picture.
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