AUSTRALIA ~ The Antipodes

AUSTRALIA ~ The Antipodes
I love a sunburnt country / A land of sweeping plains / Of ragged mountain ranges / Of droughts and flooding rains / I love her far horizons / I love her jewel-sea / Her beauty and her terror / The wide brown land for me / ~ Dorothea Mackellar (1885-1968)

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Sunday, December 6, 2009

Melting Pot of Shadows


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ The exam hallway waits for another year of faces and footsteps.
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Shadow Shot Sunday #81
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After the testing
After writing in silence
Just space and shadows

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9 comments:

Sylvia K said...

Marvelous, delightful shadow shot, Gemma! And the perfect words! Does remind me of my teaching days!

Enjoy your weekend!

Sylvia

Magical Mystical Teacher said...

Silently the wraiths
seat themselves, prepared to take
phantasmal finals.


My Shadow Shot

Quilt Works said...

Lovely shot - the shadows are so intricate

... "Simplicity is beautiful"

Anonymous said...

very nice shadow shot. place certainly looks quiet for now. ;-)

paz

Ralph said...

It is not all empty space. The building is, of course. But not the minds of your charges - the exam has allowed them to leave full of a knowledge they may have not had at the beginning of the process. An empty mind is not the result we want, a full one is quite satisfying...

Hey Harriet said...

That's a pretty class room. The ones from my school days were much more cold and sterile looking. A lovely shot! Hey so you must be on holidays now? Or at least shortly! I'm sure you look forward to that end of year break :)

A Wild Thing said...

Sounds like you're winding down sweet friend, hope you aren't working too many long hours still. We will be moving our shop AGAIN soon, but it always happens in the winter when the weather is questionable, we have reports of snow coming next week, they say 5 inches possibly, that will make driving and moving impossible...such is the way of it in Iowa. I just hope this new venture is the last one, it would be nice to be finally settled in a good location.

But we have been lucky so far this year, with mild weather coming into winter...and no snow...yayyy...the older I get the less I like it, so you'll hear me whine every year, it's the nature of the beast! Maybe some year I'll be back in warmer climes, at least in the winter months.

Have a wonderful week little one I'm blowing you warm wishes for the holidays ahead...and hugs!

s

Crafty Green Poet said...

excellent shot, reminds me of my teaching days too

Jazzbumpa said...

So much knowledge spilled
Into a big empty room,
That is still empty.

Cheers!
JzB

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