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, December 4, 2008

Light Balance


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Round the Bay Bike Ride competitors waiting at the lights in Dromana, Mornington Peninsula
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3WW prompt #CXIV ~ balance + dictate + wander
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Lights dictate balance
Colour-coded decisions
Wander with caution
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Pre-set staged journeys
Automatic revisions
Lights
dictate balance
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Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Seagull Playtime


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Seagulls at play in a pool of water at Dromana beach, Mornington Peninsula
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Watery Wednesday meme #12
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A little water
Drinking bathing and playing
A whole lot of fun
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman
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Tiny Black Watcher


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Baby crow
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Sepia Scenes meme #7
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Like a fluffy toy
Ruffled bundle of loneness
Waiting and watching
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T is for Time


Pic by Gemma Wiseman
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ABC Wednesday Round 3 ~ T is for Time
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Rocky cluttered days
Fantasy on fickle wires
Time still marches on
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Remote corner nooks
Hermit caves locked in lifestyles
Time ambles away
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman
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Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Magic Quills


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Strange morning light over the children's playground by the sea in Dromana, Mornington Peninsula
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Two fer Tuesday meme
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Sometimes
There are views
You simply love
For no particular reason
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There is busy clutter
No real focal interest
A wish-washy mire of indefinite colour
And it all seems cramped into
The nether regions of
A no particular somewhere
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And yet
There is something about
Those feathered quills
Resting in foamy tides of the sky
Resting innocently above a tiny snippet of
A child's world
That makes the whole confusion
Simple
Magic
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Another view
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Walk in the Clouds


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ View from Arthurs Seat at Franklin Lookout, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia. This is looking south toward Rosebud over Port Phillip Bay.
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Another perspective.
The curving peninsula in the distance includes the beautiful seaside town of Sorrento (where Melbourne really began) and magical Portsea.
Point Nepean is right at the end opposite the end of the Bellarine Peninsula. In between is the entrance to Port Phillip Bay (from Bass Strait) known as The Rip.
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That's My World Tuesday # VII
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Here is a closer view of where I am standing. This is Arthurs Seat National Park.
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Dromana is right below and you can see in the distance the outline of the Bellarine Peninsula
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Here is Arthurs Seat Road curling around the mountain. This view is looking north toward Mount Martha. Melbourne is further north round the curve (left in the picture) of the bay.
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ A closer view of Mount Martha.
Mornington is just behind. The whole peninsula has been named after this area.
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Mountain wonderland
Wander the sky without wings
That's a miracle
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ If you enjoy the sky and love the feeling of being a part of the sky, any of the lookouts on Arthurs Seat mountain are a great place to stand and dream awhile. Sometimes you may be lucky to be on the mountain when it is completely wrapped in cloud.
O what a feeling!
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Cast a Little Sunshine


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Light and shadow on the Dromana coastal walkway, Mornington Peninsula
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Heads or Tails prompt #67 ~ Shine
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Fanciful shadows
Counterfeit answers to life
Needing some sunshine
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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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