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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Thursday, July 14, 2016

love is...


sign on the rear window of a car parked in the Dromana Hills...


thorns and love
the glory of a rose
spiked beauty


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Sunday, March 8, 2015

stray shadowy twig...


shadows on the curtain on the window near my front entrance...


some patchy sunlight
some errant shadows
a stray twig


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Sunday, January 4, 2015

fresh shadows on old walls...


shadows on an old building in the Coolart complex at Somers...


shadows
frame a dusty window
a blessing of light


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Saturday, January 25, 2014

newspaper patch...


During our recent heatwave, I took an early morning walk round my Dromana Hills
and saw this alternative to a blind on a house window...


newspaper patch
mutlti-purpose
reading


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Thursday, March 28, 2013

Patagonia Torquay


I saw this sign on a car window and wondered what it all meant.
When I Googled the website of Patagonia Torquay I was more intrigued.
The business sells products that are environmentally friendly.
The wild world we love is fast disappearing. At Patagonia, we think that business can inspire solutions to the environmental crisis. This means that what we make and how we make it must cause the least harm to the environment. We evaluate raw materials, invest in innovative technologies, and rigorously police our waste. 
And their origins were especially fascinating.
In 1973 Patagonia established itself out of a small company that made tools for climbers. Reaching the shores of Torquay in 2008, our values here in Australia reflect those of a business started by a band of climbers but now focus on our national past time of surfing, and the minimalist style that lifestyle promotes. The approach we take towards product design demonstrates a bias for simplicity and utility. For us at Patagonia, a love of wild and beautiful places demands participation in the fight to save them, and to help reverse the steep decline in the overall environmental health of our planet. We donate our time, services and at least 1% of our sales to hundreds of grassroots environmental groups all over the world who work to help reverse the tide.
The business is part of a Conservation Alliance founded in 1989.

And the fish in the sign?
Torquay is on the southern Victorian coastline - by the sea.
And the business sells fly fishing and surf products too.


Monitored footprints
Environment caretakers
Business role models


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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, September 9, 2011

Windows


An old window at the heritage homestead of Coolart, Balnarring overlooking the refreshed rolling earths and wetlands outside.

Thursday Think Tank #65 ~ Windows

Beyond earthly golds
Beyond the poverty of loss

Beyond the sylph of politics
Beyond the wound of stigma

Beyond the fountains of civilised knowledge

Pandora's
Wise
Windows
Enchant

N.B. There is an intended ambivalence - a platform for challenge - in the last stanza.


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Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Your rehearsal...not mine...


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Amazing what lovely morning colours are just outside the window!
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3WW #CCXLI ~ damp + incensed + skid
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Your rehearsed passions
Damp with old incensed untruths
Like dust skid by me
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Hosted by Thom @ Three Word Wednesday

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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Sunday, April 24, 2011

Window on Light and Shadow


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ A shadowy window on a home at Bittern, Mornington Peninsula
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Shadow Shot Sunday #153
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An attractive glimpse
Window on light and shadow
Outward and inward
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Saturday, March 26, 2011

Woven Reflection


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ A reflection of a wall feature in the front window of a home in the Dromana Hills, Mornington Peninsula
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Weekend Reflections #79
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Like woven brickwork
Like a textured tapestry
A curtained secret
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Saturday, March 19, 2011

Reflection Frame


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ In Rosebud carpark, Mornington Peninsula, it seems that a tree frames the window of a car.
Amazing the illusion of reflection!
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Weekend Reflections #78
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Blueish reflection
An eye set in leafy spray
Like a curved secret
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A place of beauty in the Western Tiers

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Tasmania
View near Blackwood Park Cottages, Mole Creek

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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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