Silhouettes…
Travelling through Tasmania in winter, one comes across many silhouettes and shadows.
Wrought metal work illuminating a history –
Stage coach.
Bushranger.
Surveyors opening up the hinterland.
Extinct Tasmanian Tigers.
A swagman.
Female loo.
Male loo.
A shepherd and his sheep.
Merino ram, ewes and lamb.
Clever lazer offcuts for garden sculptures and stiles into paddocks.
And then:
Clever topiary –
A bull.
A farmer on an ATV with his dogs.
A jackeroo rounding up sheep. (the plant, an unknown wiry fastgrowing creeper immune to frost, snow and drought)
A koala bear… hmmm.
A boat with a farmer and his sheep. (Still growing) Why a boat and sheep you ask? I’m guessing because this little country town has a lake with an island and they may have grazed the island historically and had to cart the sheep back and forth in a dinghy.
So you see, such things make ‘pootling’ wonderfully interesting and eyecatching…
I’m enjoying your pootling photos. 🙂
PB
Thanks tiger68 – we’ve had such a relaxing meander round all the back roads of Tassie. Places I’ve never seen, corners of great beauty – it’s a good thing to do.
Enjoyed seeing your “unique” vision of Tassie!
Do you know Lynn, I’ve seen those silhouettes a hundred times and never really ‘noticed’ them. Just one more case of taking things for granted…
Those silhouettes are strangely fascinating. I’ve seen similar ones of racehorses alongside the track or on stations, when travelling by train in the UK, but nothing like the variety you’ve captured in your photographs.
So nice too to have a bit of vicarious cool in the midst of our summer.
Hi Giselle. My favourite is the bushranger one, because of the way it loomed out of the fog on the day. It’s an inspired way to give a pocket recounting of our young history.
As to the cool, I made the comment to someone last night that this is the most bizarre winter. We’ve had maybe two weeks of cool/cold – mostly it’s mild. Yesterday it was 18 degrees Celsius, that’s a late spring temperature and as I look out at the orchard grass, it’s brown and has a vague understory of green shoots which will be lucky to see the light of day. I think summer is going to be seriously tough at this rate.