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
I love this photo, the iron work, the history :D
ReplyDeleteLook at that fabulous bedhead gate.
ReplyDeleteI'd kill for one of those.
Letty, I didn't pick it as a bedhead but now I see that's exactly what it is.
ReplyDeleteThis is the local tourist office?
ReplyDeleteThat is just what I was going to ask, bedhead ... why does the variant bedstead come to mind?
ReplyDeleteAnd that looks like wattle and daub ...