You can't handle the truth!

I am in Canberra today (the nation's capital for all you fun fact hunters out there), for more meetings! Such is the joy of being boss for the time being. It will be a shorter trip than Sydney though, and hopefully one free of cake.

That said, the robot and I have conspired to keep to photograph's rolling along. This one is of Hobart's mighty Derwent River. Like the Nile, Amazon and Mississippi rolled into one, this is one impressive bit of drink. There is no hyperbole in that description either, because as I have told you a million times, I hate exaggeration.

Err, this isn't the river, this is the Hydro Building on Elizabeth Street.

Tip for new bloggers, be extra careful when pre-posting late at night before a trip away!

Comments

USelaine said…

As always, I am prepared to believe.

2 December 2008 at 11:06

Neva said…

hmmm.....the river is exactly where? nice building...hope your stay was uneventful....

2 December 2008 at 12:55

Benjamin Madison said…

An amazing river! Very deep!

2 December 2008 at 15:46

Priyanka Khot said…

You did not use enough words to describe the impressive river... Niles, Amazon or even our good old Ganges is no competition to this one :-)

2 December 2008 at 16:09

Megan said…

That's no river...

2 December 2008 at 18:41

Anonymous said…

Thanks for visitng me. You have a lot of variety here- plenty to see! I will be back again soo:)

2 December 2008 at 19:04

Julie said…

A Few Good Men

4 December 2008 at 00:02

Kris McCracken said…

USelaine, that’s what we love about you!

Neva, oops.

Benjamin, double oops.

8 December 2008 at 10:28

Kris McCracken said…

Priyanka, the good old Ganges! Do people still wash their clothes in there?

Megan, triple oops.

Lisasarsfield, ahh, but no river today!

Julie, I have a couple of them.

8 December 2008 at 10:29

Ah, Joe, you never knew the whole of it...

I still have the robot on the job. Here you can see the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery . And here is a poem: Soliloquy for One Dead Bruce Dawe Ah, no, Joe, you never knew the whole of it, the whistling which is only the wind in the chimney's smoking belly, the footsteps on the muddy path that are always somebody else's. I think of your limbs down there, softly becoming mineral, the life of grasses, and the old love of you thrusts the tears up into my eyes, with the family aware and looking everywhere else. Sometimes when summer is over the land, when the heat quickens the deaf timbers, and birds are thick in the plumbs again, my heart sickens, Joe, calling for the water of your voice and the gone agony of your nearness. I try hard to forget, saying: If God wills, it must be so, because of His goodness, because- but the grasshopper memory leaps in the long thicket, knowing no ease. Ah, Joe, you never knew the whole of it... I like Bruce Dawe. He just my be my favourite Austral...

There was nothing left. No reason, no conscience, no understanding; even the most rudimentary sense of life or death, good or evil, right or wrong.

Here is a self portrait. I’m calling it Portrait of a lady in a dirty window . Shocking, isn’t it? However, it is apt! Samhain , Nos Galan Gaeaf , Hop-tu-Naa , All Saints , All Hallows , Hallowmas , Hallowe'en or HALLOWEEN . It’s Theme Thursday and we’re talking about the festivals traditionally held at the end of the harvest season. Huh? No wonder Australians have trouble with the concept of HALLOWEEN. For the record, in my thirty-two L O N G years on the planet, I can’t say I’ve ever seen ghosts ‘n goblins, trick ‘n treaters or Michael Myers stalking Tasmania’s streets at the end of October. [That said, I did once see a woman as pale as a ghost turning tricks that looked like Michael Myers in late November one time.] Despite the best efforts of Hollywood, sitcoms, and innumerable companies; it seems Australians are impervious to the [ahem] charms of a corporatized variant of a celebration of the end of the "lighter half" of the year and beginning of the "darke...

Hold me now, oh hold me now, until this hour has gone around. And I'm gone on the rising tide, to face Van Dieman's Land

Theme Thursday again, and this one is rather easy. I am Tasmanian, you see, and aside from being all around general geniuses - as I have amply described previously - we are also very familiar with the concept of WATER. Tasmania is the ONLY island state of an ISLAND continent. That means, we're surrounded by WATER. That should help explain why I take so many photographs of water . Tasmania was for a long time the place where the British (an island race terrified of water) sent their poor people most vile and horrid criminals. The sort of folk who would face the stark choice of a death sentence , or transportation to the other end of the world. Their catalogue of crimes is horrifying : stealing bread assault stealing gentlemen's handkerchiefs drunken assault being poor affray ladies being overly friendly with gentlemen for money hitting people having a drink and a laugh public drunkenness being Irish Fenian terrorist activities being Catholic religious subversion. ...

This will hurt me...

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