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, August 31, 2014

Saturday, August 30, 2014

bank on fine dining...


view of the front of the Counting House Restaurant at Mornington...


an old bank
brushed with dining charms
new credit


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Friday, August 29, 2014

clear blue skies...


clear blue skies over beach boxes at Dromana beach...
It's almost spring...


promising blue
the hope of smiling
weather 


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Thursday, August 28, 2014

Blue Sky...


Blue Sky is a chain of stores specialising in outdoor equipment...
This one is at Dromana...


be prepared
to find your own
blue sky


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Wednesday, August 27, 2014

ducks at Coolart...


ducks in the wetlands at Coolart, Somers...


a sign of spring
waters fill with
water birds


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Tuesday, August 26, 2014

sporty red...


boat offshore from Balnarring beach...


sporty red
waiting to race
the waves


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Monday, August 25, 2014

getting ready...


man and child getting ready to sail on Westernport Bay from Balnarring beach...


water journeys
waiting to be
discovered


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Sunday, August 24, 2014

street shadows...


view of a front fence line of a property near Balnarring beach...


quiet street
a public view of
privacy


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Saturday, August 23, 2014

table arrangement...


table arrangement pre a conference/workshop I attended in Melbourne...


diversions
soothers for the body when
the mind is heavy


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Friday, August 22, 2014

waves of gold...


sunrise skies in the Dromana Hills...


waves of gold
weaving the stubborn
darkness


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Thursday, August 21, 2014

dismount area...


sign on the foreshore trail by Dromana beach...
I've always thought that the whole bottom section looks as if it has been cut off...not sure how...


black and white
protect the journey
of others



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Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Sawtells Inlet...


Sawtells Inlet at Tooradin empties into Westernport Bay...


winding waters
a playground for fish
and fishermen


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Tuesday, August 19, 2014

canoe on a verandah?


canoe called Penguin on a verandah at McCrae...


lost
stranded in a sea of
bits and pieces


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Monday, August 18, 2014

fishy?...


feature on a home's front garden fence at McCrae...
The home is close to the beach...
Believe it or not - this is actually a mailbox...


fishy feature
domestic art
out of water


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Sunday, August 17, 2014

building...


beach terrain at Balnarring beach casts its own shadows...


the sea 
slowly builds
its own landscape



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Saturday, August 16, 2014

Friday, August 15, 2014

cloudy moon...


on the night of the recent super moon,
cloud cover meant that I was only able to capture an image
when the moon was well above the horizon...
but still, the eerieness was beautiful...


cloudy shapes
cannot muffle 
moon glory


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Thursday, August 14, 2014

clever visuals...


clever visual images accompany the words for this sign...
ACMI = Australian Centre for the Moving Image
and the arrows suggest movement...
Film, television and all facets of digital culture are exhibited here...


preserving
the moving sights
and sites of time


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Wednesday, August 13, 2014

mini waterfall...


mini waterfall of water at London Bridge Ocean Beach, Portsea...


mini waterfall
do you shed sad tears or
tears of relief


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Tuesday, August 12, 2014

ride-on mower...


view of a ride-on mower...


buzz of a mower
trims the wild spirit of
insurgent grass


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Monday, August 11, 2014

plates in a garden...


feature in the Enchanted Maze Garden at Arthurs Seat...


a pillar of plates
colouring a garden world with
alternative art


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Sunday, August 10, 2014

bouquet of shadows...


plant hanging on a verandah of a Mornington home...


bouquet of shadows
random tears of
the sun


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Saturday, August 9, 2014

a meeting place...


meeting point of a small ramp onto a pier at Hastings...


meeting place
sunlight etches
shadow diamonds


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Friday, August 8, 2014

morning gatherers...


some feathered characters on my verandah...


white peace cloud
hovers over
a feathered truce




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Thursday, August 7, 2014

Nespresso...


arty sign on a coffee kiosk at Federation Square, Melbourne...
Nespresso Moments has its own gallery of coffee moments...


coffee
has its own special
taste heaven


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Wednesday, August 6, 2014

and still more rain...


my verandah is a welcome palette for puddles...


blots and swirls
everchanging art
of rain



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Tuesday, August 5, 2014

my favourite boat...


whenever I am wandering Dromana beach in the morning hours,
I look to the horizon to seek my favourite boat passing by...
some day... some day...


sailing spirit
an island world
I love


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Monday, August 4, 2014

strange yellow buoy...


strange yellow buoy offshore from Portsea...


yellow capsule
floating in waves of
loneliness


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Sunday, August 3, 2014

shadow weave...


shadowy walkway at the Enchanted Maze Garden, Arthurs Seat...


fence line
barbed with a weave of
loose threads



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Saturday, August 2, 2014

wintry street shadows...


wintry view of Main Street, Mornington...
The old Mechanics' Institute is on the left hand side...


wintry street shadows
soothing the bustle of
colour



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Friday, August 1, 2014

what will be the mood...


skies over Portsea beach looking out to Port Phillip Bay...


restless skies
I wonder what mood
emerges


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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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