Passing Thoughts #9 ~ Vision Gardens, Bittern

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Today I visited a newly opened garden centre called
Vision Gardens.
I pass it each day on my way to and from school and I've watched it emerge,
like a butterfly from a chrysalis.
It is a place of romantic wonder.
Delightful plants wait in a unique setting with interesting outdoor artwork.
And indoors, there is a giftshop of artwork and an atmospheric cafe.
I dream now of somehow using my photography and haikus there!
(Create a blog updating the garden centre and linking to the website?
The gift shop?...hmmm)
And dreams can tumble into reality, can't they?
I will be visiting again!
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Passing Thoughts #9 ~ Vision Gardens, Bittern


Where the dream may fly
There my spirit flies also
Welcome to my dream
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman
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A dream of laughter
Remember flower pot men
Vision Garden life
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman
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No One Would Have Believed...

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Sculpture in Melbourne near the Treasury building
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Carry on Tuesday #71 ~ Our prompt this week is the first words from H. G. Wells 1898 novel, War of the Worlds:
No one would have believed...
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Seemingly simple
Major historic moment
Symbolic sculpture

Reams of signed paper
No one would have believed true
Turning point in time
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ The simple lines of the wavy sculpture represent the 1891 lengthy petition for women's right to vote in Australia.
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Hosted by Keith's Ramblings

No Goodbyes

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Trail of late afternoon Autumn light at Fisherman's Beach, Mornington Peninsula, Port Phillip Bay
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Carry on Tuesday #50 ~ This week our prompt is a quote from author
Richard Bach:
Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.
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When it seems there's loss
Don't intimate dark goodbyes
Avoid locked closures

Journeys are just change
Farewell means inner promise
Boomerang culture
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MY NEW MEME
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How long till morning?

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Another night shot where just the tangling tree boughs can be identified in the light of the moon.
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Carry on Tuesday #48 ~ presented by Keith's Ramblings
This week our prompt is the opening line from the 2008 novel Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella:
How long have I been awake? Is it morning yet?
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I see epic floods
I feel yearning for star worlds
I hear silent ships

I see yesterdays
Marchers in uniformed lines
No muddied boots yet

My own yesterdays
Urban gypsy rural dreams
Freedom of bare feet

I sense sailing moon
How long have I been awake
Is it morning yet
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My Autumn Avatar

Collage by Gemma Wiseman ~ If I created an Autumn avatar!
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One Single Impression #109 ~ Avatar
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In terms of seasons
I am an Autumn spirit
Mellow airs and shades
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Come close to my soul
Notice the reaching branches
Noticed coloured walls
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Shrink to avatar
Shadowy trellis rising
White whispers drift on
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Collage in Avatar thumbnail
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P.S. In response to Gautami Tripathy: Avatars seem to be like fractured personalities, almost caricatures, masks available for dressing and undressing!
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A Song for Two and a Postscript

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ A slightly dusty 2 o'clock...
Time and times just slightly out of line...
Dust to dust...
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Haiku Bones #16 ~ Two O'Clock
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Two feet for walking
Two organs to hear and see
Two arms seek embrace
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Two hands to create
Two shoulders to cry upon
Two knees to kneel
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Two mournful bell tones
Two hours beyond deep midnight
Two o'clock curfew
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Silent Music of Peace

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ A headland at Hastings, Westernport Bay, Mornington Peninsula
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Scenic Sunday #89
Carry on Tuesday #46 ~ This week our prompt is the opening of The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer, 2004:
We are each the love of someone’s life
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No sign of movement
No sign of human footprints
No sign of tensions
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A time to reflect
A time to renew life vows
A time for re-birth
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In the cold dark lights
Loneliness is hollowness
Fathomless chasms
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Empowered with fears
Empowered with shapeless sylphs
Spun imaginings
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But we're reality
Solid possibilities
Solid living gold
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We are special golds
Each the love of someone's life
Once, now or to be
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Let the breezes sigh
A soul needs some healing time
Space and dimension
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Please Feed Me!

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ In early morning Autumn light, a baby magpie adopts "baby pose" to encourage Mum to feed it!
Taken on my verandah in the Dromana Hills, Mornington Peninsula
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Camera Critters #100
SOOC Sunday #70
Sunday Scribblings #205 ~ Fluent
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Sweet baby magpie
Waiting for small miracles
Subservient pose
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Young calls of Nature
Fluent in body language
Wild rite of passage
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman
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Soulful Mists of Autumn

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Mystical Autumn skies in the Dromana Hills, Mornington Peninsula ~ from last year's Autumn archives
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Scenic Sunday #86
Carry on Tuesday #43 ~ From the Beatles:
Each day just goes so fast
I turn around - it’s past
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Each day spins so fast
Whirlpool spiral of seasons
Colours in meltdown
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I turn slowly round
Weathered energies have past
I'm locked in limbos
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The mists of autumn
Like wings in soft magic skies
Soulful enchantment
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Stepping Up With a Kookaburra

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ A little kookaburra on our verandah steps, Dromana Hills, Mornington Peninsula
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Camera Critters #99
Carry on Tuesday #42 ~ This week our prompt is the opening of Elizabeth Peter’s 1999 book The Falcon at the Portals:
What is it you find so amusing, dear?
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Hopping up the stairs
Kookaburra happiness
Life is always good
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Hear this bird's laughter
It is so amusing dear
You must just laugh too
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Take a little time...

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ A lovely shady spot in the beautiful Seawinds gardens, Arthurs Seat, Mornington Peninsula
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Scenic Sunday #84
Carry on Tuesday #41 ~ This week our prompt is the opening of Michael Crichton’s 2004 novel State of Fear:
In the darkness, he touched her arm and said ...
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In the soft darkness
He touched the warmth of her arm
He reached for her soul
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Do you remember
Do you remember our world
Our secret treasure
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A moment in time
A bench waiting for viewing
A peaceful escape
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Possum View of Guinness

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ A sign photographed near Brunswick, Melbourne (from a mini-bus when on a school excursion).
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This Way Thurs-Way #44
One Single Impression #104 ~ Insomnia
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Insomnia state
Upside down reality
Human view of stress
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Soothing Guinness froth
Possum view of heady ale
Problems over-turned
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Music of the Night

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Summer moon in the Dromana Hills, Mornington Peninsula
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Carry on Tuesday #39 ~ This week our prompt is the opening lines from the song Music of the Night from Phantom of the Opera:
Night-time sharpens,
heightens each sensation.
Darkness stirs and wakes imagination...
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SOOC Sunday #66
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Deep night-time sharpens
Heightens each frail sensation
Like serrated fears
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Darkness drums and stirs
Music of moon strung silhouettes
Imagination
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman
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It was the best of worst times...

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Spending time on the sands by the waters of Port Phillip Bay, Dromana beach, Mornington Peninsula
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Carry on Tuesday #35 ~ This week our prompt is part of the opening line of A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...
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Spending summer time
And it was the worst of times
Ragged with worries
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Rocking heatwaves
And it was the worst of times
Drowning in sorrows
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Rocking summer time
And it was the best of times
Surfing horizons
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Spending heatwaves
And it was the best of times
Just me and my dog
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