Garden Sketchabout.

These first Covers are so odd that I am not posting them. I shall instead wrap up with the WOMENS WEEKLY NEW YEAR COVER for 1949 – year of my own birth. It’s a ripper.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article47507399

The Australian Women’s Weekly Saturday 4 January 1947

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article46944938

1948 ‘The Australian WOMEN’S WEEKLY.’, The Australian Women’s Weekly , 3 January 1948

TO ALL OF YOU, I WISH A HAPPY CHRISTMAS. ITS BEEN A PLEASURE HAVING YOU WITH ME ALL YEAR.

And always a rainbow serpent remembers ancient days.

Samara Flynn, Age 12
Grafton Public School, Grafton NSW

To all my readers and to the people who contribute and to Family and Friends. my thanks for your participation this year. All the very best for the Holiday Season to you and to yours. I look forward with pleasure to more adventures and mysteries shared with you in 2010.

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I meant to cross (or bless) myself and put out one of my eyes

Many see more with one eye than others with two.

FOTO – LIZARD IN PORT MACQUARIE -SUSAN POMROY.

Diepe zwemmers, hooge klimmers ziet men zelden op bed sterren. Deep swimmers and high climbers seldom die in their beds.

“Tiruṭṭānta caṅkirakam, or, A collection of proverbs in Tamil: with their …“

The crouching of Tiger is the preparation for its leaping.

Would it be safe to descend into a river on a clay horse?

“A collection of Gaelic proverbs and familiar phrases : based on Macintosh’s collection“

Children are fond of carrying cats ; even a grown-up person would tire in time of a light burden.

In the pasturage of the elephant is there not room for a lamb?

She will sit composedly in the eye, and tie five elephants to the gymnastic pole.

Thy child that is no child leave upon the water and let him swim.

He knows the water best who has waded through it.  Danish.

FOTO – BY SUSAN POMROY OF URUNGA FROM THE BREAKWALL.

Do not speak of secret matters in a
field that is full of little hills.

Our passions, like heavy bodies down steep hills, once in motion, move themselves, and know no ground but the bottom.

FOTO – BILAMBIL VALLEY 2009 FROM THE COTTAGE.

The Love that's forc'd will never do

Long-waiting love doth entrance find – Into the slow-believing mind.  Sydney Godolphin.

FOTO -2008 IN THE ANCHORAGE ISLANDS TWEED RIVER.

Books are friends, and what friends they are ! Their love is deep and unchanging; their patience inexhaustible; their gentleness perennial ; their forbearance unbounded ; and their sympathy without selfishness. Strong as man, and tender as woman, they welcome you in every mood, and never turn from you in distress.

FOTO – CASSANDRA POMROY 2009

FOTO – BRISBANE MUSEUM 2007

Lame in the village, an antelope in the jungle.

Your eyes are full of intoxicating wine. You increase their power by applying antimony. Stupid ! does any one ever place a weapon in the hands of a drunkard ?

FOTO – BOOKSHOP IN ELIZABETH STREET BRISBANE. 2007.

Live, thou ass, until the clover sprouts up. 

Exhorting a foolish person to be patient and not to despond, as it is quite certain that circumstances will change for the better.

When God pleases it rains with every wind.

When God pleases, it rains in fair weather.

Its pleasant to look on the rain, when one stands dry.

 

FOTO – RAINBOW ON BILAMBIL HEIGHTS. 2005.