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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Monday, May 18, 2009

Old but Beloved


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Boat just offshore of Rosebud beach, Mornington Peninsula
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Blue Monday meme
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Tattered, battered boat
Dipping gently with the tides
Old but loved by birds
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman
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8 comments:

paisley said...

love that second shot,, and the whole idea of the birds making use of the neat old painted boat....

Anonymous said...

That's so sweet!!!
They look so organized, it's even harder to get kids to line up at times! *lol*

Esther Garvi said...

I love how the birds love their old boat! They make it look beautiful, and it was already rich in charm!

The Summer Kitchen Girls said...

Hey again Gemma....glad we stopped by on a Monday for all of your photos! Love these pictures - the first one is great - love the words on the boats with birds, and the colors are fabulous!

Mary Bergfeld said...

Both photos are wonderful, but I especially like the birds massing on the boat in the second photo. Have a great day.

amanda guthrie said...

It certainly looks both old and loved, great Blue Monday post!

Linda said...

The birds obviously appreciate the comfortable lines of the boat. I wonder what came first - the name or the gulls?

Celeste said...

Seems these guys knew the boat was named for them!

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