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, April 4, 2010

Vive La Difference


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ An Autumn leaf in my Dromana Hills garden, Mornington Peninsula
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One Single Impression #110 ~ Cognizance
Carry on Tuesday #47 ~ This week our prompt is the opening line from the 1949 movie Adam's Rib:

Vive la difference
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When Summer heat melts into the fires of falling Autumn leaves
Vive la difference
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When love's passion snaps into the rising flames of conflict
Vive la difference
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When solitary Winter reflects on yesterdays
Subconscious secrets
Splintered doors ajar
Keys to cognizance
Vive la difference
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NOTE: This could continue into Monday's post ~ Golden Music!
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14 comments:

Changnoi said...

We don't have autumn in Thailand - it looks beautiful.

Roland D. Yeomans said...

Autumn is my favorite time of year. And thanks for your perceptive comments on my CAPTAIN OUTRAGEOUS post. You see, if I can get the first book written, I plan to make it a series where I will take Victor on the stages of growing up with the colorful group of paranormals that surround Captain Samuel McCord.

In fact, the phrase, "Oh, go climb your thumb" that Renfield uses in the first chapter of FRENCH QUARTER NOCTURNE is a phrase that the priest has taken from the favorite phrase of Victor's in CAPTAIN OUTRAGEOUS.

If The Father is willing, I plan on linking all my novels together in a composite universe, even my Native American/Celtic fantasy THE BEAR WITH TWO SHADOWS.

So you are quite perceptive. And I am ambitious ... or out of my mind.

If you go to this short post you will find out more about why I love winter and the origin of the bear with two shadows. Love the colorful zest of your blog.

http://rolandyeomans.blogspot.com/2010/02/bear-with-two-shadows.html

Have a blessed Easter

Stan Ski said...

I love the colours of autumn leaves.
Happy Easter!

Chasing Purple Dreams said...

The colour in your leaf is beautiful. It's Autumn here too, but we don't get much of a colour change.

Gattina said...

Please don't show autumn pictures now in spring or I get a nervous breakdown, lol !
Happy Easter !

Ann, Chen Jie Xue 陈洁雪 said...

indeed you made a difference, you even made an imperfect leaf photograph good.

Happy easter

Euroangel said...

very nice shot..happy Easter!

Roland D. Yeomans said...

Your imperfect leaf teaches us that even in imperfection there is beauty. Which gives hope to those of us whose imperfections are hard to miss! Come check out my latest post if you're of a mind.

I come back here even when there are no new posts just to look at the beauty here. True beauty never gets old.

Your cyber friend, Roland

Mojo said...

The image of the words is as vivid as the photo. Those splintered doors can be pretty ominous.

Nicely done. Nicely done indeed.

Roland D. Yeomans said...

Your comments on my post were as thoughtful and perceptive as always. The feeling, perceptive life takes courage for we see beneath the surface. But I have read some of your blog : you have the substance and spirit to grow better not bitter.

Your cyber-friend, Roland

Amity said...

beautiful as always, pics and verses!

loved it Gemma!

Janet said...

I love the splintered doors/keys to cognizance. Beautiful sound & imagery :-)

Tumblewords: said...

Vive la post and photo!

Carlos Gesmundo said...

The world on its head. We just left winter. :-)

Happy fall!

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  • 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
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  • 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
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