Just a chance shot at the Law School during fading light. It's amazing the detail this little camera eye can pick up.
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...
I regard these as forms of statues. We have statues all over the city. Not those abpominations everywhere to promote Taronga Zoo, but good solid, stones statues. You know, before the world went plastic!
ReplyDeleteOh yes the Rhinos ... I didn't realise until i read Peter's blog that there are hundreds of them. One does make it in the next sequence along with some of your good solid statues.
ReplyDeleteInteresting sculptures. How do you know who they are?
ReplyDeleteInteresting. Hard to get a sense of scale. What size are the sculptures?
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