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, March 4, 2012

Sunset Dreaming


Glorious sunset light over Safety Beach, Mornington Peninsula

Dazzling finale
Like celebrating the day
When light slips to sleep



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A Beach View


Sunny Dromana beach basking in the last rays of summer warmth.

I love a lone beach
Space to breathe the sights and sounds
Time to feel freedom


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Fate


One view of Sorrento Cemetery on the southern end of the Mornington Peninsula

Some fates seem cold
Locked in stonework or cement
But souls know there's more



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Boat Shed Shadows


Shadowy patterns on a boatshed at Dromana beach.

Shadowy ridge line
Scatter of shadowy boughs
Roof generates art



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Saturday, March 3, 2012

Illusory View


Yesterday, Year 9 and 4 teachers (including moi) travelled to Phillip Island in Westernport Bay to observe examples of eco tourism.
This is a view of the approach to the island.
On the left is the arching bridge linking mainland and island.
As I photographed it through the bus window, I noted I caught the reflected shape of the bus driver and segments of street views on the other side of the bus.
The reflection looked like some framed art hanging in an outdoor gallery!

Reflection and view
Slender arching linking bridge
Strange transparency



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Friday, March 2, 2012

Last of Summer Skies


Last of summer skies over Dromana beach, Mornington Peninsula
Autumn began with a vengeance yesterday - chilly winds and icy rain.
And last night it was announced on the news that we had 22 days of summer - above 30 degrees C. (I thought that there were less days than that!)
Was it really only last weekend that I took this photo?

Sweet summer sunlight
Cooling breath of sea breezes
The delight of warmth



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Thursday, March 1, 2012

The Dog Sign


A sign on the Frankston foreshore, Mornington Peninsula.
The leashed message of the sign is quite familiar on my peninsula, but this is the only dog sign displaying a "specific time frame" message in a dog shape?
Perhaps the reason is because it is not far from a children's playground?
(And the time frame represents the summer holidays.)

Dogs so love the beach
But they share it with humans
Summer restrictions



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A place of beauty in the Western Tiers

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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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