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 skies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label skies. Show all posts

Saturday, October 29, 2011

Silhouette Drama


Nearby homes and trees look dramatic in early morning light over the Dromana Hills!

In my neighbourhood
Early morning skies parade
Silhouette drama


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Saturday, May 14, 2011

Autumn Reflections


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Reflections of a morning sky in the Dromana Hills, Mornington Peninsula
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Weekend Reflections #86
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Autumn morning breaks
Like a gallery of sighs
Art of reflection
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Hosted by James (Pennsylvania, US) at Newtown Area Photo

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Soft Summer Skies


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Soft summer skies over Port Phillip Bay as viewed from my verandah in the Dromana Hills, Mornington Peninsula
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Heavenly #17
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Soft skies of summer
Whispers of glistening hours
Romance of morning
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Saturday, October 30, 2010

Nature's Panels


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Morning skies and silhouettes reflected in my neighbour's verandah windows in the Dromana Hills, Mornington Peninsula
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Weekend Reflections #58
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A line of panels
Painted segments of morning
Like mural colours
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Hosted by James (Pennsylvania, US) at Newtown Area Photo

Monday, July 5, 2010

If I were to be...


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Ambivalent winter morning skies in the Dromana Hills, Mornington Peninsula
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Sunday Scribblings #222 - ME
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*** This is my Gemma Wiseman profile on Helium

To understand me...

To understand me, perhaps a few tangibles may help.

If I were the sky, I would be a cloud drifting, reshaping, reinventing, but always enigmatic. If I were the earth, I would be a rock, bathing in the rush of a waterfall. If I were a tree, I would be a willow, that soft lacy wandering in the whims of breezes, dreaming quietly by water.

If I were a place, I would be Sheffield in Tasmania; coloured with murals whispering of other lifetimes; wrapped in the mystery of blue mountains flecked with snow.

If I were a shop, I would be Berkelouw's rambling magic of a homestead, alone in serene farmland, in Berrima NSW; graced with an intimate cafe, window boxes of vibrant geraniums and a wonderful log fire hosted by an old armchair. And of course, those books forgotten by the mainstream bookworld.

If I were a garden, I would be Mount Annan Botanic Garden south of Sydney NSW. A healing place, where forested boardwalks gently lead to sanctuaries of old songlines and a sundial on a hill waits for human shadows to cast time.

If I were to be a season, I would be Autumn; that mystical limbo raining in color.

If I were to be an element, I would be Water, the paradox of a variable constant; sometimes plains of blue leading to silken road horizons; sometimes lapping charms by those coastal sands of decision; sometimes cleansing, healing hands; sometimes drowning rebirth.

If I were a bread of life, I would wink impishly from the exotic worlds of a chocolate box.

But, I am none of those things, for now.

For now, I am just some eerie etchings on a white slate, trying to drift in a tiny bark through tai chi skies.



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Megg Taylor

Monday, November 2, 2009

Halloween Electrified


Collage by Gemma Wiseman ~ Stormy views of Halloween night skies in the Dromana Hills, Mornington Peninsula
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Mosaic Monday meme
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Stormy bright dark skies
Halloween electrified
Eerie bolts of light
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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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