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...
"To muse, to creep, to halt at will, to gaze ... such sweet wayfaring"
William Wordsworth
Good observation. The ridges really do look like veins.
ReplyDeleteYes it does. Nature is just amazing.
DeleteYeh a case of natures art. But when I looked at the image it reminded me of the back of aging hands which I also find lovely.
DeleteNature is so amazing! Great find.
ReplyDeleteI love being surprised by nature. It is so much fun seeing things in the ordinary not just the grand vistas.
DeleteHehe, that's a good way to describe it.
ReplyDeleteIt's the poet in me peeping thru! Wish it happened more oft.
DeleteIs it that new fangled method of lanndcare that funnels moisture and soil around paddocks? The one advocated by Peter Andrews?
ReplyDeleteNo the ridges are rocks not soil. There was quite a big section of them.
DeleteWhoa - that looks weird. I don't think I've ever seen anything like that before.
ReplyDeleteLooking at it now it looks as if a farmer ploughed around a tree but I am sure the rocks predated the tree by millions of years. Yeh weird.
DeleteGood analogy. It looks like the back of my hands.
ReplyDeleteHe he. Mine too
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