{"id":3815,"date":"2013-03-23T10:21:31","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T10:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=3815"},"modified":"2013-03-23T10:21:31","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T10:21:31","slug":"weekly-photo-challenge-future-tense-and-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=3815","title":{"rendered":"Weekly photo challenge: Future Tense and Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ailsa has thrown out a challenge to find a photo with the theme of time<\/a>, and the Weekly Photo Challenge asks us to think ‘future tense’.\u00a0 Today my husband and I went to a new place called the Arboretum, born out of fires which burnt much of western Canberra ten years ago.\u00a0 To replace what we no longer have and to help the city recover, especially those who lost all their possessions in the fires, 250 hectares have been planted with large numbers of rare or endangered trees. There are numerous stands of trees to walk and play in, outdoor entertainment areas, lookouts and hilltop sculptures.\u00a0 This word sculpture had me reflecting on time, 105 years of it.<\/p>\n

\"Sculpture,<\/a>
Sculpture, Arboretum, Canberra (with husband)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Core of my heart<\/em><\/p>\n

The love of field and coppice
\nOf green and shaded lanes
\nOf ordered woods and gardens
\nIs running in your veins\u00a0—
\nStrong love of grey-blue distance
\nBrown streams and soft dim skies…
\nI know but cannot share it,
\nMy love is otherwise.<\/p>\n

I love a sunburnt country,
\nA land of sweeping plains
\nOf ragged mountain ranges
\nOf droughts and flooding rains.
\nI love her far horizons
\nI love her jewel-sea,
\nHer beauty and her terror —
\nThe wide brown land for me!<\/p>\n

Dorothea Mackellar published this poem in 1908, four years after she wrote it at the age of 19.\u00a0 It’s now such an Australian icon that its lines frequently appear in news articles and tourism literature.\u00a0 One in particular is well-known:\u00a0 ‘I love a sunburnt country’.\u00a0 But during years of drought, of which we have many, the phrase ‘wide brown land’ is invoked.\u00a0 Now Dorothea’s words are immortalised in a huge steel sculpture in the form of her handwriting from the manuscript held in the State Library of New South Wales.\u00a0 The sculptors were Marcus Tatton, Futago and Chris Viney.<\/p>\n

Imagine writing something (at 19!) that would be sculpted a hundred or so years later and placed high on a hill in a capital city.\u00a0 The words are part of Dorothea’s future, and the Arboretum is part of Canberra’s future.<\/p>\n

\"View<\/a>
View from Dairy Farmers Hill, Arboretum, Canberra.\u00a0\u00a0 Our land is wide, but right now it’s not at all brown!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

PS\u00a0 These are phone photos, taken with a Samsung in the spirit of phoneography month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ailsa has thrown out a challenge to find a photo with the theme of time, and the Weekly Photo Challenge asks us to think ‘future tense’.\u00a0 Today my husband and I went to a new place called the Arboretum, born out of fires which burnt much of western Canberra ten years ago.\u00a0 To replace what … <\/p>\n

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