D is for Design

Design features around Melbourne


Touch of magic style
Touch of dream and fantasy
Some urban landscape


Linking to:
ABC Wednesday Round 11

B is for Buildings

Buildings in central Melbourne

Whimsy of buildings
Like some tangible spirit
Urban fantasy

Linking to:
ABC Wednesday Round 11

A is for Artists

 

Street artists in Melbourne
The long instrument is a didgeridoo - traditional Aboriginal 

Artistical souls

Offer the gift of beauty

In creative ways

Linking to: 

ABC Wednesday Round 11

Shadowy Reflections

Leaves of yesterday
Reflections and shadows meet
Last sighs of Autumn


Linking to:
Shadow Shot Sunday 2

Shadows of the Night

Shadows of the night
Lurking beauty after rain
Mysterious soul


Verandah and chair
An ordinary setting
Just a place called home



Linking to:
Shadow Shot Sunday 2
Haiku Heights ~ Prompt ~ Ordinary

Tomorrow

Scrambled mixed blessings
Charm of procrastination
Deferred commitment

Hope of some maybes
A screened window on unknowns
A contrived welcome

Tomorrow's profile
Eccentric chameleon
Ambiguity


Hosted by Megan Mrsupole

On All Fours

Kookaburra and wattle bird having a little chat on the wires outside my Dromana Hills home.
They were on all fours!
The wattle bird seemed to be doing all the talking!
The kookaburra simply admired the view!

Not a friendly pair
Kookaburra calmly sits
Agro wattle bird


Hosted by Shannara

Pieces of My World

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ A collage of some curved pieces in my world.
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PhotoHunt #190 ~ Curved
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Many curved pieces
Assortment of memories
Like rounded stories
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Art of Flag Flying

Collage by Gemma Wiseman ~ I decided to celebrate the first Blue Monday of Spring with flags from my world.
All these photos are from 2009 Australia Day in January.
The Dromana flag in the middle celebrates my own little seaside township.
The blue and yellow flag is our Visitor's Information Centre flag.
And of course, there are a few Australian flags here.
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Blue Monday meme
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Art of flag flying
Local and national pride
Celebrating life
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Rocky Rhythms

Collage by Gemma Wiseman ~ Mossy and "sponge-like" rocks edging my garden in the Dromana Hills, Mornington Peninsula.
In the middle of the collage are "treasured" rocks that have travelled with me for many years.
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PhotoHunt #171 ~ Rock/s
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Nature's foundations
Rock the rhythms of my soul
Natural textures
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Pics by Gemma Wiseman ~ This rock's colours have always fascinated me.
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Dreaming on the Moon on a Winter's Afternoon

Collage by Gemma Wiseman ~ An afternoon moon + feathered wildlife in the Dromana Hills, Mornington Peninsula
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Sepia Scenes #39
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Winter afternoon
Moon rising in cooling skies
Time to dream awhiles
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NOTE: A new post called Mysterious Wildlife now appears on my AuraGem Songlines.
Would someone be able to tell me what is my mystery invader?
Click on this badge to go to the post!

A White Dove Leads...

Collage by Gemma Wiseman ~ Included is Michelle's photo of a dove statue from her Cincinnati Zoo visit.
It sits at the Garden of Peace entrance.
The remaining images are some of my ornaments with a photo overlay of a wild and grey and stormy day in the Dromana Hills.
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Poefusion Monday Mural
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In the shadowlands
Colourless souls simply be
Wandering nowhere
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Feeble pale pulses
Being is a silhouette
Numb euphoria
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Ark of potential
Selective criteria
Billowed hopeful sails
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Stray olive branch
Peaceful life in wild waters
Gift from a lone dove
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Michelle's dove overlaid with retreating dark shapes
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New Waves Emerging

Collage by Gemma Wiseman ~ Boats and water at the new development of Martha Cove, Mornington Peninsula
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Mosaic Monday meme
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Leisurely living
Expensive sense of belonging
New wave of values
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Garbage in Four Acts

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Various examples of "moving house" garbage in my carport + remnants of a flower in my garden.
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PhotoHunt #170 ~ Garbage
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Removal boxes
Short basic necessity
From treasure to trash
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Discard our today
Lose tomorrow's potential
Throw away living
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Varied garbage bins
Selective way to sort waste
Challenge Nature's world
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Spent glory of blooms
Still beautiful in some lights
Our Earth's nourishment
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(See my Attitude post for a beautifully decorated garbage bin at Rosebud on the Mornington Peninsula)
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman
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In a Surreal World

Collage by Gemma Wiseman
It is an overlay of wild waters after storms at Anthony's Nose and very early morning dawn lights in the Dromana Hills, Mornington Peninsula
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3WW CXLVI ~ gloom + kneel + transparent
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Transparent dawn gloom
Galaxies of wild waters
Flushed timid lights kneel
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A New Look at Coffee and Cream

Collage by Gemma Wiseman
Creamy buildings and a coffee van
1. Continental Hotel, Sorrento, Mornington Peninsula
2. + 6. + 7. = Dromana Hotel, Mornington Peninsula
3. + 4. + 9. = Dromana units, Mornington Peninsula
5. Coffee Cart Company van at Rosebud markets, Mornington Peninsula
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PhotoHunt #167 ~ Creamy
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Creamy yellow walls
A time out or a time in
Sacred coffee worlds
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman
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Mellow Yellows are Falling

Collage by Gemma Wiseman ~ Mellow yellow autumn leaves in my garden, Mornington Peninsula
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Mellow Yellow Monday #9
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Time to change the heat
Time to sleep in cooler dreams
Time of falling gold
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Studious Waves from Cezanne

Collage by Gemma Wiseman ~ My own tapestry of a clown +
Mont Sainte-Victoire by Paul Cezanne (1900) +
Young Italian Girl Resting on Her Elbow by Paul Cezanne (c. 1900)
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Simply Snickers prompt ~ clown + country + consider
This week, we celebrate the birthday of French Post-Impressionist painter Paul Cezanne, who was born on January 19, 1839.
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Serious country
Stormy waves
Consider clown time
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Unseen and Unseeable Wonders

Collage by Gemma Wiseman ~ Arthurs Seat skies and my favourite tree ~ the willow ~ at Balnarring, Mornington Peninsula
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Cafe Writing ~ 2008 Holiday Project ~ Option 6 ~ Timed Writing ~ Unseen and Unseeable Wonders
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The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.
~Francis P. Church, “Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus”
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Behind the veil
Mountains wing weary walkers to the skies
Clouds bring sunny rains in midnights
Seas cradle sailors to many homes
Any homes
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Above the veil
Earthy ochres paint pyramids for starred dreams
The moon tumbles joyfully down
A romantic waterfall
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Beneath the veil
The song of a willow smiling
A rose weeping
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Around the veil
An endless
Fairy ring
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Smiling Christmas Blues

Collage by Gemma Wiseman ~ Sunday afternoon light at Dromana, Mornington Peninsula
(Click to magnify for full effect)
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Blue Monday meme
Weekend Snapshot #66
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Slowly Spring creeps in
Tentative toes test waters
Smiling bright sunlight
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Entrance to the Dromana village shopping centre
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