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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Friday, July 30, 2010

To Be Or Not To Be...


Pic by Gemma Wiseman
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Friday Flash 55
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They were just venetian slats evenly dissecting a window; a round, sealed, smeared window that somehow looked disturbingly like a porthole.
The view must be a little high because she could just glimpse the top of a power pole.
And tantalising breakfast smells drifted from somewhere below.
Was this her first or last meal here?
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15 comments:

MorningAJ said...

I like this a lot. I thought the photo looked like a porthole too. Good 55.

I was a little nostalgic this week.

magiceye said...

this is poignantly beautiful

Brian Miller said...

oh a rather mysterious 55...nice. hope you have a great friday!

Stan Ski said...

Not her last, I hope. There must be so much more to discover.

John (@bookdreamer) said...

That's what can happen if too many shots and he up's making the breakfast before you can remember if he's a keeper. Just a fun 55 today!

Ellie Garratt said...

Great 55. A mysterious ending. I'd like to read more of this one!

PattiKen said...

Very suspenseful 55. I think john may have the solution to the mystery. Sounds like a little too much the night before.

I’m up here.

GreensboroDailyPhoto said...

Perhaps this is just her visual feast between first and last meal. I'll have to learn more about this "55"

Anonymous said...

Gemma, I've posted Weekend Mailbox over at my place.

This is a startling shot! :)

'Tsuki said...

Great framing... Alway a pleasure to have a look on your blog...

maryt/theteach said...

My Weekend mailbox is up, Gemma! :)

Claudia said...

suspenseful 55

Monkey Man said...

First or last. We may never know and it makes little difference. Great 55.

g-man said...

Aren't those places usually Haunted?
Loved your 55 Gemma.
Classy contribution My Friend.
Thank you for always playing so fantastic.
Have a Kick Ass Week-End

Anonymous said...

cute 55.

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