Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ A pretty corner in the Enchanted Maze Garden, Arthurs Seat, Mornington Peninsula
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One Single Impression #101 ~ Blowing the Curve
Monday Poetry Train
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Attractive garden
Circular pedestal pot
Apparently so
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Patterned curved detail
Blowing the visual curve
Imagined cycle
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I measure out my life with haiku. My camera films my soul. ~ Gemma Wiseman
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)
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Blowing the Curve
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Shadow in the Shade
Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ One of Shadow's favourite places when we sit on the verandah on a hot summer's day.
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Pet Pride meme
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Lying low in shade
But keeping watch on the world
Wise gems from Shadow
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Ticket to Fly
Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ At the Enchanted Maze Garden, Arthurs Seat, Mornington Peninsula are many fanciful sculptures.
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Carry on Tuesday #38 ~ This week our prompt is a quote from Martin H. Fischer:
Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth.
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At times
I feel like
Pressed metal
Dangling on a string
A mobile
Victim to fickle winds
But I know that
While I have breath
I can energise my wings
And fly
My very being is the ticket to
The greatest show on earth
Earth itself
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Enchanted Cottage
Uncanny Presence of the Ancients
Scenic Fantasy
In the shadow of a rose...
Saturday, January 30, 2010
A Reflection of my Dromana World
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Australia Day 2010 in Dromana #4
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Australia Day 2010 in Dromana #3
Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Today is Australia Day.
Part of the activities on the Dromana foreshore, Mornington Peninsula included painting and drawing for children.
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Carry on Tuesday #37 ~ This week our prompt is a quote from the 18th century artist Sir Joshua Reynolds:
A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.
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Old rooms hung with thoughts
Rooms hung with children's pictures
Birth of innocence
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Australia Day 2010 in Dromana #2
Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Today is Australia Day.
This is a part of an acapella group who presented indigenous songs from around the world to an enthusiastic audience in Dromana, Mornington Peninsula.
The red and black clothing represents the colours of the Australian Aboriginals' flag.
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Ruby Tuesday meme
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Red and black music
Stirring national heart strings
Inspirational
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Australia Day 2010 in Dromana
Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Today is Australia Day.
And Dromana by the sea on the Mornington Peninsula on a bright summer's day is a wonderful place to be.
The whole community gathers to celebrate.
Here is a collection of faces and activities...
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That's My World Tuesday
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It is more than fun
It is more than flags flying
It is soul music
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Sunday, January 24, 2010
Mellow Summer Beach in Dromana
Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Slightly warmer summer day in Dromana, Mornington Peninsula attracted a few beach goers!
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SOOC Sunday #64
Scenic Sunday #80
One Single Impression #100 ~ Sunny Days
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Hesitant swimmers
An autumn beach in summer
Mellow warming sun
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Warming sunny days
Hair reaching for summer winds
Energised pleasure
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SONGS ABOUT AUSTRALIA
- Damien Leith - his citizenship ceremony in Tenterfield + he sings "Tenterfield Saddler" - Australia Day 2007
- "I Still Call Australia Home" - Peter Allen's beautiful song sung by the Outback Singers - absolutely stunning!
- "I Am Australian" - delightful Australian images synchronise with a song of the Australian spirit - The Seekers
- "Great Southern Land" - the deepest wells of the Australian spirit - Icehouse (1989)
Australian Photography, Painting & Music Links
- Tia Kane Art - Chinese art through Australian eyes
- Kieran Murphy - Amazing 19yr old (2008) guitarist - Melbourne = "The Chase"
- Ian Wallace - Award winning photographer from Tasmania
- Lindsay Buckland - Music - Eclipse of the Common Sense - Melbourne, Australia
- Andonis - Heroic Mosaic Art - Melbourne Australia
- Michelle Wrighton - Pet Portrait Artist - Perth, Western Australia
- David Webb's Nature Photography - Queensland
- Robert Todonai - Painter of Australian Life & Landscapes - Western Australia
General Interest Australian Websites
- Australia's Weirdest Wineries
- Mornington Peninsula Tourism
- HaikuOz
- Unusual Facts About Australia ~ Some serious, mysterious and fun
- Desert Art - Broken Hill NSW
- The True Blue Roo Poo Company - Funny gifts from Down Under
- Scribbly Gum
- Truly Australia - Travel Australia
- ABC Rural Australia
- ABC Northern Tasmania
- Australian Snapshots
- Message Stick - Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Online
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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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