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
Remember the trip you did through Omeo last year where you took the lines from "My country"?
ReplyDeleteThis is so so so flat ... the trees are like blips on a heart machine from someone who is fading fast. Let's not take that analogy too far.
The annoying thing about your collage (which is gorgeous BTW), is that I want to enlarge each individual image and look at its delights!!
OK I'll figure out how to do my collages differently one day.
ReplyDeleteI think all the "packages" tie the images up like this. Never mind.
ReplyDeleteGreat pastel shades on the collage!
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