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Still Glides the Stream
This shot was taken on the Artists' Trail, a section of the Main Yarra Trail in Melbourne. At intervals there are reproductions of famous examples of nineteenth century artworks from the Australian version of Impressionism practised by the "Heidelberg School", named after a region now a suburb, but then bush and farming country where the artists set up a colony. The copies are placed near to where the paintings were (at least notionally) made.
Arthur Streeton painted this well-known instance called, 'Still Glides the Stream and Shall Forever Glide', after a line from a Wordsworth sonnet. The area is much more built over today than it was at the time of the painting; the cleared land has shrunk to a tiny fraction, but a strip of the flood-plain is now more grown over, partly with weeds, and partly with replanted native vegetation.
Melbourne has around 2000km of bike trails. Most of these are shared footways and, being dictated by geography rather than demography, they meander a lot. So unless you are lucky in where you live, they support recreation somewhat better than commuting.
The sunlight in the photo is as low and weak as it gets, just past the winter solstice in Melbourne, the most southerly of the major Australian mainland cities.
Still Glides the Stream
This shot was taken on the Artists' Trail, a section of the Main Yarra Trail in Melbourne. At intervals there are reproductions of famous examples of nineteenth century artworks from the Australian version of Impressionism practised by the "Heidelberg School", named after a region now a suburb, but then bush and farming country where the artists set up a colony. The copies are placed near to where the paintings were (at least notionally) made.
Arthur Streeton painted this well-known instance called, 'Still Glides the Stream and Shall Forever Glide', after a line from a Wordsworth sonnet. The area is much more built over today than it was at the time of the painting; the cleared land has shrunk to a tiny fraction, but a strip of the flood-plain is now more grown over, partly with weeds, and partly with replanted native vegetation.
Melbourne has around 2000km of bike trails. Most of these are shared footways and, being dictated by geography rather than demography, they meander a lot. So unless you are lucky in where you live, they support recreation somewhat better than commuting.
The sunlight in the photo is as low and weak as it gets, just past the winter solstice in Melbourne, the most southerly of the major Australian mainland cities.