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, July 26, 2009

Fragrance of Yesterday


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ A glimpse of the world in Tyabb Grainstore Antiques, Mornington Peninsula
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One Single Impression #74 ~ Fragrance
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New tastes of old worlds
Feeling ambient echoes
Yesterday's fragrance
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman
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16 comments:

DeniseinVA said...

Wonderful photos of days gone by. I always love the verses that go with your photos. Thanks Gemma and thanks for stopping by, have a great Sunday.

Kathy W said...

Gemma these are great. I haven't been in an Antique shop in years. What child wouldn't love a tricycle with a horse on it. =)

ProdigalWife said...

Love those little figureheads--looks they're looking right at the camera! Thanks for your visit.

Jo said...

I love the verse with your photos. And enjoyed the antique shop visit. Thanks for visiting my blog. Hugs Jo (South Africa)

OrdinaryBiscuit said...

The theme for your photos are so creative. I like antiques but I have not tried collecting them.

totomai said...

remembrance of the past is being shared to today's generation :-)

Sherri B. said...

I love the musty smell of antique stores...there is such a history there amidst all those scents. Great read!

spacedlaw said...

What a lovely horse! I wonder about its smell.

Jim said...

Don't you just love to wander around in those antique stores!
And of course there is nothing else with that certain smell of old even if an old object elsewhere.
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SandyCarlson said...

It's amazing how a fragrance--even frome some other history unknown to us--can conjure the familiar and once forgotten.

gabrielle said...

I love the musty scent of the past. But wonder as you do how we bend it with our approach.

qualcosa di bello said...

there is nothing quite like the scent that greets you when you cross the threshold of an antique store.

Bobbie said...

Sweet and beautiful, the scent of time. :)

Tumblewords: said...

The fragrance of yesteryear - memory and fragrance are so closely tied but not memorable until later. I enjoyed this post, as always..

Maggie said...

I think with time some images bring sweeter fragrances to some fortunate people.

These images brought sweet fragrance times to my mind.

Amias (ljm and liquidplastic) said...

The smells of yesterday .. how quaint. Love the haiku mated well with the photos.

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