"To muse, to creep, to halt at will, to gaze ... such sweet wayfaring" William Wordsworth
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Wide brown land
We are on the road again retracing our steps through the big wheat and sheep country, but taking a little different route to see some more towns on the way.
In the morning we went out to see the radio telescope 20 or so kms out of town. On another wayfaring trip we visited the radio telescope at Parkes but this one is an array of dishes on a long track that can act like one big dish.
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...
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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