brick macro...

Macro of bricks in my home wall...


bricks in summer light
rough textures and indents
shine at random


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Set in Stones

An unusual way to present the number of a house at Balnarring on the Mornington Peninsula


identity
a numbered cage
set in stones


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enigmatic face...

Head of a strange figurine at the entrance to a Balnarring home on the Mornington Peninsula.


enigmatic face
like an inner alien
smiling in pain


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Balmarian

Front of a home at Balnarring on the Mornington Peninsula.
The name Balmarian intrigued me.
It seemed to be an unusual name for a house.
When I Googled the word, the name seemed even more unusual.
Balmarians are a race of extraterrestrials from the Super Robot Wars series.
They are fictional aliens from a Japanese video game.
So now I am more puzzled just how it all connects with a house name.

a house of shadows
alien connections and
mysteries



This is a view of the shadows from the house steps.

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Understated Fence?

Lovely old house - Californian bungalow - at Moorabbin, an inner suburb of Melbourne.
Somehow I feel that the fence line style doesn't really complement the house.
Maybe they wanted an understated fence line so that attention is drawn to the house and garden?


wired fence
binding the large
the small escapes


NOTE
Re: the curled feature on the roofline.
Many early 20th century homes have this.
Some say it's called a pinnancle and is a stylised version of a gargoyle to ward off evil.
More responses suggest that it is a feature of Japanese architecture advertised in the World Trade Fairs and "borrowed" for other architecture.
For more details of the discussion about "what it is" see HERE!


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like looming warnings...

House at McCrae - on the Mornington Peninsula - bathed in early morning stormy light and shadow.


like looming warnings
early morning stormy tones
like darkening light


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Haiku Challenge #16 ~ Sin in Haibun

There's a house not far from me that never changes.
It simply is.
To me, it is like a broken link in the chain of life. It is like a stage without actors, a sky without weather changes, an earth drought-ridden.
It's a sin to let a house bathe in the sunlight and shadows of the seasons, shuttered, alone...

No circulation
No tending of the garden
No family love

A grim door that never greets nor farewells, stands like a locked memory - of someone.
A gated driveway locked in bland nowhere. Somehow there is a sense of a child, discarded, wondering if parents will ever remember to come home; like a body adrift in limbo, seeking a heart and a soul.



Scraps of energy
Like shredded, lost momentos
Mere driveway relics

There's a house not far from me that never breathes, never blinks.
It simply survives.
It simply is.

*150 words

Written for The Haiku Challenge 2012 - Day 16 – February 16th – Theme or Word: Sin Form: Haibun

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Window Catalogue

This house at Rye on the southern end of the Mornington Peninsula overlooks Port Philip Bay.
It looks like a layer cake of windows!

Bay architecture
Like layered levels of views
Eccentric cabin


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Secret Magic

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ A little pottery home that we use to hold candlelight outdoors.
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Like secret peepholes
An open door to secret light
Fragment of magic
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Shadows of a Strange House

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ A rather unusual house at Safety Beach, Mornington Peninsula
It seems incomplete.
What appears to be the front door drops away to grass level.
And the girders seem to be shaping what may be a front verandah some day.
At least the whole structure creates some great shadow patterns!
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Small house of questions
Like a child's construction set
Paused inspiration
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