Gemma's ~ "Greyscale Territory" ~ Poetic Songlines

Rocky Rhythms

2009-07-18T00:04:00.001+10:00

Collage by Gemma Wiseman ~ Mossy and "sponge-like" rocks edging my garden in the Dromana Hills, Mornington Peninsula.
In the middle of the collage are "treasured" rocks that have travelled with me for many years.
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PhotoHunt #171
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Nature's foundations
Rock the rhythms of my soul
Natural textures
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Pics by Gemma Wiseman ~ This rock's colours have always fascinated me.
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Morning Has Broken

2009-07-17T00:04:00.000+10:00

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ First light in the Dromana Hills, Mornington Peninsula
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SkyWatch Friday #53
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Morning has broken
Sleepy lights toss fleeced blankets
From gold to silver
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman
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Suspension

2009-07-16T20:43:00.005+10:00

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Tradesman on the roof of a shop in Dromana, Mornington Peninsula
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3WW #CXLVI ~ drip + hypnotic + sulk
Haiku Friday meme
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Hypnotic clouds sulk
Suspended animation
Arced, lined lamp posts drip
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Another Rainbow This Week!

2009-07-16T18:13:00.003+10:00

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ I can't believe that another rainbow appeared today in the Dromana Hills, Mornington Peninsula!
But now, where's there's a rainbow, there is wildlife.
A wild cockatoo still only had bread on his mind.
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Nature Notes #18
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ And he wasn't going anywhere without that bread ~ rainbow or no rainbow!
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ A crow did some flying and another cockatoo landed looking for bread!
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A rainbow and wings
Winter afternoon heaven
Colours for dreaming
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ But a magpie did some dreaming
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Martha Cove's Jolly Roger

2009-07-16T00:04:00.000+10:00

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Jolly Roger flag flying at a home near the entrance to the new waterway development of Martha Cove, Mornington Peninsula
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This Way Thurs-Way #17
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman
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Heave ho me hearties
I got floating treasures here
High water lifestyles
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ At Martha Cove, penthouse styles grace the fringe of the water with many having access to their own piers.
This is the public walkway from the opening to Port Phillip Bay right down the newly dredged channel.
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Dreaming on the Moon on a Winter's Afternoon

2009-07-15T09:37:00.006+10:00

Collage by Gemma Wiseman ~ An afternoon moon + feathered wildlife in the Dromana Hills, Mornington Peninsula
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Sepia Scenes #39
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Winter afternoon
Moon rising in cooling skies
Time to dream awhiles
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A Simple Window

2009-07-15T09:14:00.005+10:00

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Lovely early morning winter sunlight playing on my verandah window in the Dromana Hills, Mornington Peninsula
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Window Views #13
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A simple window
Another morning light glow
Just winter beauty
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman
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Waters Blessed with Winter Sunset Lights

2009-07-15T00:04:00.002+10:00

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Winter sunset over Port Phillip Bay as viewed from Dromana beach, Mornington Peninsula
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Watery Wednesday #44
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Soft clouds drape the light
Trembling waters creep gently
Sunset enchantment
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Like a Painted Ship with Wings

2009-07-14T00:04:00.003+10:00

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ One variety of rosella that visits our world in the Dromana Hills, Mornington Peninsula.
It is quite rare that these "jittery" birds land on our verandah railing as happened on this particular day.
For once, I happened to have my camera.
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Ruby Tuesday meme
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Ragged abstract waves
Splashes and daubs of colour
Vibrant pools of red
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Award from Bonnie Bonsai of Sydney, Australia!

2009-07-13T12:47:00.006+10:00

This is a wind-blown, wild cockatoo on my verandah in the Dromana Hills, Mornington Peninsula.
(He fascinates me because he has a broken wing, which won't fold down but he manages to fly quite well!)
The dramatic look of shock in his pose symbolises how I feel right now.
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Bonnie Bonsai of Australia: Quadrat in Focus (to name one of her 20 amazing blogs) has awarded my blog the Bella Sinclair Award for Art and Inspiration!
(She records her many awards in a separate blog called Appreciation Award Blog.)
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I feel so humble because all I try to achieve here is to let people enjoy some time out, seeing and thinking about non mainstream, quirky sometimes eccentric ideas.
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Photos combined with poetry aim to touch a cord for just a moment, and having touched move on.
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I would dearly love to pass this award on to so many bloggers.
Some I know very well and some I am still discovering and exploring.
But, for a long time now, one particular blogger has walked with me through blogland and shared many lights and a few shadows.
She inspires with her love of the land (past and present) through her poetry and photos.
She is a modern day gypsy with a home known as the Pink Chateau.
She is my "sister" blogger in Iowa.
Sharon of Sweet Repose.

A White Dove Leads...

2009-07-13T11:23:00.000+10:00

Collage by Gemma Wiseman ~ Included is Michelle's photo of a dove statue from her Cincinnati Zoo visit.
It sits at the Garden of Peace entrance.
The remaining images are some of my ornaments with a photo overlay of a wild and grey and stormy day in the Dromana Hills.
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Poefusion Monday Mural
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In the shadowlands
Colourless souls simply be
Wandering nowhere
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Feeble pale pulses
Being is a silhouette
Numb euphoria
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Ark of potential
Selective criteria
Billowed hopeful sails
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Stray olive branch
Peaceful life in wild waters
Gift from a lone dove
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Michelle's dove overlaid with retreating dark shapes
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New Waves Emerging

2009-07-13T10:06:00.000+10:00

Collage by Gemma Wiseman ~ Boats and water at the new development of Martha Cove, Mornington Peninsula
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Mosaic Monday meme
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Leisurely living
Expensive sense of belonging
New wave of values
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A Glimpse of Tasmazia

2009-07-13T09:23:00.005+10:00

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Souvenir from northern Tasmania.
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Blue Monday meme
That's My World Tuesday XL
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It looks plain and insignificant, but what it says on this blue plastic key ring is amazing!
I've been to the Promised Land
Across the way from Paradise
Down the road from No-Where-Else
Via the Devil's Gate, Tasmania.
Each of those names represents real names of real places in Tasmania.
No-Where-Else is a hamlet with a remarkable pottery gallery!
P.S. I purchased this at an incredible tourist attraction called Tasmazia (check out this website for a taste of living fantasy) in the Promised Land outside Sheffield in the north of Tasmania.
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The world of Tasmazia is a crazy complex located in the wonderfully named town of Promised Land in the heart of Tasmania's beautiful Cradle Mountain and Lakes District.
Tasmazia includes 8 mazes, featuring The Great Maze, reputedly the world's largest, as well as The Village of Lower Crackpot, a whimsical model village built to 1/5th scale, The Honey Boutique, The Pancake Parlour, a Gift Shop, a Lavender Farm, and ever present views of majestic Mount Roland...
Tasmazia is the brainchild of Brian Inder, a former farmer, who has transformed his Promised Land dairy farm into this brilliant 20,000-shrub lavender farm, then devised and built the incredible mazes, Lower Crackpot, and the rest of this magical world over 20 years.
Brian Inder (as he is known to his mother) prefers to go under the name of Laird Crackpot of the Village of Lower Crackpot, along with his wife Laura, have simply got up and created a quite magical world of their own...
The inspiration has clearly come from far and wide; the Great Maze is reputedly the World's Largest, one of the mazes is an exact replica of the famous one at Hampton Court Palace in England, another has a Wizard of Oz theme, while there's a memorial to the inventor of the toilet at the end of the absolutely infuriating Cage maze...
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The Village Motto is 'Fractis Sed Utilis', which translates, 'broken but still useful', which a cracked pot is.
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Crackpot Angels' home
School of Lateral Thinking
Tasmazia's land
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NOTE: Crackpot Angels is a motorcycle club.
Badges to join the club may be purchased in the shop.
The School of Lateral Thinking is a building in the village with a humungous arrow reaching sideways.
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What a great way to take a dream and share it and live it!
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman
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Winter Jewels

2009-07-13T06:42:00.005+10:00

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Flowers (I think they are jonquils) just beginning to bloom in my winter garden in the Dromana Hills, Mornington Peninsula.
This is quite an old garden, (and I've only lived here for just over 6 months, and don't know all the plants) so some plants seem to look a little different from the current norm.
In reality, these are very tiny flowers, but the macro shot gives them fulness.
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Macro Monday meme
Mellow Yellow Monday #27
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Whisper of yellow
Like tiny lotus flowers
Soft winter jewels
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Carved Wood Fantasy in Monochrome

2009-07-13T02:05:00.000+10:00

Collage of one of my treasured, unusual pieces of artwork.
Woods include maple, white pine and cedar.
It was bought some years ago at Goldies Crafts in Kiama, New South Wales
The wires behind are from my stereo.
This was the only place where the piece would stand with support from the bar below the table.
But the wires seemed to add extra interest to the monochrome.
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Monochrome Monday/Monochrome Maniacs meme
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Tiny wild creature
Peeks timidly from carved woods
Like a wise small owl
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It's Those Cockatoos Again!

2009-07-12T10:00:00.004+10:00

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ The wild winter weather has abated a little and the cockatoos are returning to our verandah looking for food.
We still only feed them occasionally (not with sunflower seed because they become agro, fight and generally embark on ballistic escapades! Imagine up to 50 or more cockatoos doing this!)
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SOOC Sunday meme
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Wind-blown white feathers
Battling moody winter blues
Needing comfort food
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Pics by Gemma Wiseman ~ Feeling a bit wind-blown!
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Mystical Winter Flower in Dromana

2009-07-12T06:01:00.000+10:00

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Unusual colours and shapes of a winter flower in Dromana, Mornington Peninsula
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Today's Flowers #48
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Like a slim fuschia
Riot of winter purples
Mystical flower
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Keep Your Eye on the Shadows

2009-07-12T04:02:00.000+10:00

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Featuring our Burmese ~ Shadow
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Pet Pride meme
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Eye for dark movements
Letting the light fall behind
Wise gems from Shadow
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Grand Lady of Queenscliff's Yesteryears

2009-07-12T02:05:00.000+10:00

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Scenic view of a grand old building overlooking Port Phillip Bay.
It is now used for accommodation at Queenscliff, Bellarine Peninsula.
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Scenic Sunday #52
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Grand yesteryear life
Steeples and lacey wrought iron
Lingering soft sighs
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ A closer view
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No Shadows Without Light

2009-07-12T00:04:00.000+10:00

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Shadows playing around another of my little angel ornaments.
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Shadow Shot Sunday #60
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Angelic corner
Exchange of shapes and spaces
Shadows in the light
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Segments of Thinking

2009-07-11T08:45:00.000+10:00

Pics by Gemma Wiseman ~ Souvenir of one university I attended in New South Wales ~ University of New England in Armidale + my thinking lady a la Rodin
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One Single Impression #72 ~ Thinking
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Academic worlds
Thinking time can be prescribed
Disciplined thinking
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Pics by Gemma Wiseman ~ Creative ornaments
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Rebellious travels
Dimensions of shapes and space
Realms outside the box
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Pics by Gemma Wiseman ~ One of my dreamcatchers + a spiritual thinker
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Realms inside the box
Spiritual dimensions
Thinking beyond thought
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Bronzewing Critter

2009-07-11T02:05:00.000+10:00

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Here is a bronzewing that has begun to wander into our garden in the Dromana Hills, Mornington Peninsula.
It is related to the pigeon family.
Often this one bronzewing feeds on seeds with the rosellas and the doves.
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Camera Critters #66
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Pics by Gemma Wiseman ~ Notice the touch of irridescent colours on the wings. and how the wing textures are more defined than those of the dove.
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ The amazing thing about this bird is it can sit on the ground as still as a rock for an hour or more.
And in the process, it seems to puff itself out and its head seems to sink into its feathers, barely noticeable.
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Garbage in Four Acts

2009-07-11T00:04:00.002+10:00

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Various examples of "moving house" garbage in my carport + remnants of a flower in my garden.
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PhotoHunt #170 ~ Garbage
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Removal boxes
Short basic necessity
From treasure to trash
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Discard our today
Lose tomorrow's potential
Throw away living
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Varied garbage bins
Selective way to sort waste
Challenge Nature's world
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Spent glory of blooms
Still beautiful in some lights
Our Earth's nourishment
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(See my Attitude post for a beautifully decorated garbage bin at Rosebud on the Mornington Peninsula)
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman
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Soft Winter Sunset

2009-07-10T00:04:00.000+10:00

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Another beautiful Winter sunset in the Dromana Hills, Mornington Peninsula
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SkyWatch Friday #52
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Roseate sunset
Radiant shimmering blush
Filmed with thin icing
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Rainbow Dreaming

2009-07-09T02:05:00.000+10:00

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ With all the recent rain in the Dromana Hills, Mornington Peninsula, there had to be a rainbow or two somewhere.
This is the hint of a late afternoon rainbow.
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Nature Notes #17
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Rainbow umbrella
Bridging nowhere and somewhere
Linking lost and found
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman
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