I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.

Hobart in the Winter. 10 Murray as seen from the Waterfront. August 2013.

Theme Thursday?

CHILLS?

A hyperborean hope?

Getting a gelid groove?

It's Hobart in Winter.

What do you think?

Comments

smudgeon said…

Are they still determined to knock down #10? Shame.

10 August 2013 at 09:40

Kris McCracken said…

They're clearing the area right now. Demolition work is set to start soon.

11 August 2013 at 15:25

smudgeon said…

It'd be a fraction of the cost to retro-fit, give her a lick of paint, and put a new plaque out front.

And yet...

12 August 2013 at 20:30

Mrsupole said…

It really is a shame for them to be so destructive and wasteful. What are they going to build in it's place, if anything at all? I see where they take a lot of those old buildings and turn them into Condos which are worth a ton of money. And they are usually in high demand too if they are in the right location. But when I look at this picture I just want to climb in and feel some of that cold weather. It is fire season up here and with all these fires it seems as if every night all we smell is smoke when we open the windows. But sadly we are stuck because running our A/C costs so much money.

Thanks for sharing this picture and happy TT. Hope you warm up just a bit down there. Have a great week.

God bless.

12 August 2013 at 21:46

Kris McCracken said…

Smudgeon, maybe I could chain myself to it?

Mrsupole, the new site will allegedly look like this.

22 August 2013 at 21:32

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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