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)
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
A Melbourne tram running along Swanston Street advertises this unusual one-woman show. Bernadette Robinson plays five ordinary women and five iconic singers - Judy Garland, Patsy Cline, Billie Holiday, Edith Piaf and Maria Callas. Each “nobody” recounts an intimate tale of how her life was transformed by an encounter with one of these icons. The show has been performed in Melbourne's Fairfax Theatre and will be performed at the Sydney Opera House from February 3 - March 4. For more details see HERE!
And here is a taste!
It only matters What you do with circumstance Personal progress
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An attraction for young children set up near Flinders Station in Melbourne over the summer holiday season. It is a CHAOS of tangled threads and colours - as in a maze. The children may get tangled safely.
Chaos of colour A crazy tangle of threads Outdoor amusement
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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
