The sun is up and we are cruising our way back home. Somewhere between Dunnedoo and Gulgong we saw this plantation. I don't know what sort of crop it is. Do you?
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.
No. The two tones, brown and blue are striking. The trees look like they are standing at attention.
ReplyDeleteThey look kind of "nuttish" to me.
ReplyDeleteMaybe pistachio?
Letty, I thought nuttish too.
ReplyDeleteDiane, I guess that is why I can't stop myself taking images of plantations like this ... its their regimentation that makes them beautiful to me.
Yes, I like their regimentation, too. But I prefer this season to their 'clothed' season. I was going to say, perhaps, olive trees.
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