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
It looks so lonely.
ReplyDeleteOh your right ... when compared to Qld. Almost as lonely as the tall palm in my garden in the mountains.
DeleteIt does give a touch of the exotic
ReplyDeleteI think I fell in love with palm trees as a tiny girl from the ones outside the Brisbane Town Hall.
Deletea nice spot for lunch for those office-dwellers :D)
ReplyDeleteLots of them take advantage of it.
DeleteNah ... don't like palm trees. No sense of being able to hug it.
ReplyDeleteBut they are thin enough to get your arms right around them!
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