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
Very similar to the scenery I saw near the Barrington Tops.
ReplyDeletegreat Australian scenery. Blimey it is raining everywhere. It has poured all day here.
ReplyDeleteIt is just me or whenever you look at these pictures it's like you can jump in the landscape... exactly like a Dyck Van Dyck chalks paintings on the pavement in Mary Poppins.
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I love that slash of light through the cloud in the foreground.
ReplyDeleteCat, when the light is right it does give the landscape a different dimension.
ReplyDeleteDiane, we've had a few days of sunshine :-)
Winam, yes they are quite similar, I guess relatively close to each geographically.
Julie, ah light and clouds the photographers friends.