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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Showing posts with label flags. Show all posts

Friday, February 5, 2016

flying proudly...


skies over flags flying for Australia Day on the Dromana foreshore last 26th January...
from left to right - Aboriginal flag, Australia flag, Dromana flag at the top and finally the Mornington Peninsula flag...


proud flags
celebrate the spirit of
a community


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Saturday, October 5, 2013

Grand Final Flags


Flags celebrating the recent Football Grand Final in Melbourne.
It involved Melbourne's Hawthorn Hawks and Western Australia's Dockers from Fremantle.
The Hawks won.


football season
vocal rivalry fever
and team spirit 


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Saturday, February 4, 2012

Reflection Segment


A not uncommon sight to see flags flying on cars round Australia Day each January.
But the added etching of the trees as a reflection in the car window seems to create a dimensional gallery of a passing parade.

Parade of two worlds
One symbol of a nation
One Nature's symbol



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Friday, January 27, 2012

Australia Day Flags on Flinders


Flinders Street station Melbourne displayed flags for Australia Day celebrations yesterday.
In my Dromana world on the peninsula, there were early morning fun runs along the foreshore, a free bacon and egg roll breakfast (only sausage on a roll last year), vintage car displays, music by the pier and the opportunity to have a ride in a surf boat.

A day for outdoors
A day to hear the music
Of Australian worlds



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Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Dromana Flags


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ My world of Dromana on the Mornington Peninsula flies flags along the main street during the summer holidays.
Dromana is a popular seaside destination by Port Phillip Bay.
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ABC Wednesday Challenge Round 8 ~ D is for Dromana
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Holiday flags fly
Seaside summer enchantment
Welcome to the beach
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Another Dromana flag representing the old colourful bathing boxes now being used as boat sheds along the beach.
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Friday, November 26, 2010

Parade of Flags


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Parade of flags at the Dandenong Basketball Stadium, Melbourne
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Color Carnival #67
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Strong competition
Sport is a time to challenge
National spirit

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Color Carnival is hosted by onangelwings

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Red Flags on the Main Street


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ A street scene in Dromana, Mornington Peninsula
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Ruby Tuesday meme
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Where the red flag flies
Demands direct attention
Real estate dreaming
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MY NEW MEME
Weekend Mailbox #6 is HERE!
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MY NEW MEME
Weekend Nature #1 is HERE!

Monday, September 7, 2009

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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Saturday, June 27, 2009

Flying the Flags of My Homeland


Collage by Gemma Wiseman ~ Flags included are:
Australian flag
Blue and yellow flag representing Information for tourists
Dromana, Mornington Peninsula street flag celebrating the summer holidays 2008/9
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PhotoHunt #168 ~ Flags
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman
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Flags brightly flying
Like a welcome home salute
Like a soft blanket

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Pic by Gemma Wiseman
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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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