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)

Followers

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Do You Know What I Know?


Magpie Tales #49 ~ Picture by Willow ~ My great aunt Winnie Hanna with friends and skates (right)~ Ervin Township, Howard County, Indiana, 1905
~

Blurred generation
Gowned mannequins face the snow
Invisible past

But in the 1600's
Bold forebears shared adventures
Famed Three Musketeers

~


Hosted by Willow

12 comments:

Chris G. said...

Love those old shots...always fun to see a piece of history. Very clear photo compared to some you get from those days.

A nice tribute to the faces of the past, with a good reference. Three Musketeers eh? Let's hope they were as good friends...it is always a wonder, as we look into these old images, to think how things were. How they might have been.

Reflections said...

Wonderful comparison... I can definitely see these three ladies righting some wrongs in the world.

Jinksy said...

Lady muskateers? Wow!

Suz said...

musketeers..why yes
fun one

Brigid O'Connor said...

Lovely magpie,however, I can never look at an image of three females without thinking there was going to be trouble at some stage.

Tess Kincaid said...

It is, indeed, a blurred generation I often wish I could return to for a visit.

Linda Bob Grifins Korbetis Hall said...

cute,

by comparing and contrasting, we see a more clear picture of it.

cheers.

Berowne said...

Interesting. You went to the sixteen hundreds and so did I.

Leora said...

Wonderful! Looks like out of a movie.

hedgewitch said...

I agree, there's a certain something, some secret here, in that second woman's smile especially. Nice hook up with the Three Musketeers--we all go farther back than we realize.

Kay L. Davies said...

Very nice take on the prompt, Gemma!
-- K

Kay, Alberta, Canada
An Unfittie's Guide to Adventurous Travel

Cad said...

Beware secret smiles...

CALENDAR

Tasmania

Tasmania
A place of beauty in the Western Tiers

Tasmania

Tasmania
View near Blackwood Park Cottages, Mole Creek

New Landscapes

New Landscapes
New Worlds

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

Google Analytics

The Inner Light of the Spirit

The Inner Light of the Spirit
The Spirit of Inner Light

Lady Gemma

My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is:
Lady Gemma the Unique of Walk upon Water
Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title

LinkWithin

Related Posts with Thumbnails