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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Sunday, July 31, 2016

in the shadows...


shadowy bike outside the Dromana Hub shopping centre in Dromana...


shadowy bike
I see a ghostly duck
waiting for a ride


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Saturday, July 30, 2016

carpark entrance...


view of the entrance to the Dromana Hub shopping centre carpark...


bustling valley
picturesque crucible
by mountain and sea


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Friday, July 29, 2016

Thursday, July 28, 2016

Art Series Hotels...


This Smart car advertising Art Series Hotels was parked at Mornington...
The hotel group offers Smart cars as part of its accommodation package...
Each hotel is inspired by and dedicated to a contemporary Australian artist...


atmosphere
the spiritual connection of
art and lifestyle


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Wednesday, July 27, 2016

pieces of pier...


a view of Schnapper Point at Mornington when the old pier was getting a make-over - 2013
The pier in this photo looks as if it is in 2 parts...
(and just finished August 2015)...


a deceiving bay
where wind-swept seas burst into
a wild dance


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Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Monday, July 25, 2016

Sunday, July 24, 2016

earth clouds...


shadows on the foreshore walkway by Dromana beach...


tantalising shapes
shadow trails and bouquets
earth clouds


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Saturday, July 23, 2016

Friday, July 22, 2016

smooth clouds...


winter afternoon skies over the Dromana Hills...


smooth clouds
scatter and drift 
fleecy white


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Thursday, July 21, 2016

breathing new life (2) ...


real estate sign at Rosebud...
A view of their 'for sale' sign is HERE


a sign
suggesting that a business
has a soul


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Wednesday, July 20, 2016

gentle for now...


a view of Port Phillip Bay waters from Sorrento...


gentle for now
waters inclined to
vast mood swings


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Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Monday, July 18, 2016

Sunday, July 17, 2016

shadowy tunnels...


one of many shadowy tunnels at Fort Nepean, Point Nepean...
The first shot fired by the British Empire in World War I
was fired here just beyond Portsea on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula...

narrow light
coursing a labyrinth of
dark secrets

 


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Friday, July 15, 2016

emerging...


winter skies over the newly created war memorial reserve at Red Hill...


emerging
visual presence of 
war heroes


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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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Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Sunday, July 10, 2016

minus the summer crowds...


view of the foreshore at Anthony's Nose on Port Phillip Bay...
In summer, the grassy area in the foreground is filled with campervans...


minus the summer crowd
winter shadows are free
to play


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Saturday, July 9, 2016

Friday, July 8, 2016

after rainy days...


winter afternoon skies over the Dromana Hills after days of rain...


after rainy days
fleecy whites
sunny happiness


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Thursday, July 7, 2016

Ride2School...


sign outside Dromana Primary School...
Ride2School is supported by governments in

NSW

Victoria

Tasmania


ride or walk
keep the wheels of life
well-oiled


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Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Tuesday, July 5, 2016

just a small train...


two carriage train pulling in to the small Tyabb station...
Generally, we tend to say that there is no rail service on the peninsula...
What little rail track there is requires changing
from the main line at Frankston to the small Stony Point line....
It is just a single track serving a handful of stations on the eastern side of the peninsula...


perhaps small
but a vital connection
to city worlds


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Monday, July 4, 2016

lost in translation?...

was, is, will be a sign?...
This odd little board features on a beach box at Dromana beach...
(It seems too, that this is one of the few beach boxes with an electricity connection...
But why is the floodlight turned away from the sign, and seems to face the roofline?)


a mystery
when invisible wires
cross somewhere


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Sunday, July 3, 2016

upgraded...


newly upgraded entrance to Dromana beach...
This is one of many little stepped entrances...


small entrance
tempts views of
big worlds


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Saturday, July 2, 2016

Friday, July 1, 2016

CALENDAR

Tasmania

Tasmania
A place of beauty in the Western Tiers

Tasmania

Tasmania
View near Blackwood Park Cottages, Mole Creek

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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

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