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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Saturday, July 12, 2008

Black Spots in the Garden

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ signs in Cranbourne Botanical Gardens, Melbourne. (The small sign reads ~ Tasmanian Cypress Pine.) Black background on all the signs, black fence post and black wire netting.
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Anna Carson Photography prompt ~ Project Black ~ Take 3
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Wander nature's garden
And perhaps
You may find
Your own garden
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Where flowerings have
A variety of lifespans
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Where some trees
Must be
Deciduous
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Where scattered rocks
Keep your earth from
Slipping away
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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Gemma, just caught up with all your project blacks, they are great, that wall mural is just something, you have to look twice to makes sure its not real!! Did you come across any snakes in the gardens? ;o)

A Wild Thing said...

We really don't think much about black do we, unless set upon a proposal, trying to pull color into our lives from somewhere but today I am in the clouds...albeit black and white or maybe greyscale.

Thanks again Gemma, today I soar.
sharon

Anonymous said...

Yikes snakes! I think I'd be stepping quite carefully through the garden. Have a great day...

Anonymous said...

Hi Gemma,

Just wanted to invite you to Mailbox Monday. First post will be up on Sunday at Noon, Texas CST.

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