Is this really an abandoned hut being eaten by a tree?
We passed through Bakers Swamp without noticing anything. Then reached our last dot on the map for this trip - Larras Lee and saw this. The roadside monument says: In Memory of WILLIAM LEE (1794 - 1870) of "Larras Lake" a pioneer of the sheep and cattle industry and first member for Roxburgh under responsible government (1856 - 1859). This stone was erected by his descendants. --- 1938 --- This is a repost from a few days ago. Thinking I would use this for this week’s Taphophile Tragics post I dug a little further into William Lee’s story, it’s a very colonial Australian one. William was born of convict parents, living his childhood years around the Sydney region. In his early 20s he was issued with some government cattle, recommended as a suitable settler and granted 134 acres at Kelso near Bathurst. He was one of the first in the area and did well. A few years later he was granted a ram and an inc...
A variation on the Big Bad Banksia Men?
ReplyDeleteIf it were in the city, I would think it was shelter for the homeless ...
Can I use "were" and "was" in that sentence like that? Sounds right to my ear, so I let it stand.
All this needs is a cattle-dog tethered outside, and a hill of empties ...
The trees down the hillside reminds me of striking flint-stone at every stride ...
What a find! I believe the tree is taking the place of the old hut!
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ReplyDeletereminds me of something --- some harry potter thing --- isn't there somewhere a tree munching a car in one of the novels?
ReplyDeleteor something out of lord of the rings ...
very creepy to me - but like JM said: what a find!
Yes Harry Potter is exactly it. When I was looking for a quote/poem I went down a tangent to the Paul Jennings Australian childrens stories Round the Twist and gave up in the end. It definitely matches that childish type of imagination that allows crazy things to happen as if in real life.
ReplyDeletewhat i adore about photography such a canvas for amazing sights!
ReplyDeleteOne day I might ask you about contemporary Australian writers if I may ...
ReplyDeleteNow this looks less like English countryside. It looks lie some exotic Antipodean tree.
ReplyDeleteI have been thinking about your other comment about the cottage not really being at all English. And you of course are right. It's just this Australian perception of anything that is a little 'softer' than our usual landscape that it is English. There's nothing English about most of Australia other than our language, and even that is distinct from the mother tongue.
ReplyDeleteJoan Elizabeth: Some aspects of Australia seem very English, such as the rolling green hills with sheep and the logo of the Sydney underground I saw recently in Julie's blog that was taken directly from the London underground. Other aspects are jarringly exotic such as this tree. And other aspects are not quite English, such as the farmhouse.
ReplyDeleteIt is fascinatingly looking at these daily blogs and noting elements of each category.