Is that a Coolibah tree beside the abandoned house? Every Australian knows about Coolibah trees because the bush ballad Waltzing Matilda is nigh on our unoffical national anthem but most of us live nowhere near the inland where they grow. Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong, Under the shade of a Coolibah tree, And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled, You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me. Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda, You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me, And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me.
"To muse, to creep, to halt at will, to gaze ... such sweet wayfaring"
William Wordsworth
That is so "Australian".
ReplyDeleteYes. Could not agree more - quintessial aussie!!
ReplyDeleteI burst out laughing: the down-at-heel-ness of the entire structure is so delightful.
I nearly mentioned tyre gardens in the dunny picture but I think it is more like a wheel rim - which is a first for me.
This is a corker, Joan.
Great series! Fantastic captures and details too.
ReplyDeleteFantastic! That is astonishing.
ReplyDeleteRe the "tyres":
When we moved to our present location it was in pretty bad shape. I've lost the pictures to a dead hard drive but I had a series of photographs of all the various kinds of tires/tyres that were left here. I comforted myself by thinking of them as some kind of art installation. They were kind of cool looking....but I was really glad when they were all gone.
Yipes PJ, I'm glad you didn't keep the tyres ... or worse yet you could have turned them into tyre swans!
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