Beauty, Like the Rose, Very Soon Must Fade
“I cherish dead roses as they live between the pages of my books. I believe, a fresh rose is loved for its beauty but the dead one is beyond beauty.” – A.K. (writer).
The theme for "Looking Close on Friday" the 8th of August is "fading beauty in flora". This rain spoiled rose bloom, which is slowly fading as it dies, I found in the gardens of an old Church of England in the Victorian country town of Inverleigh. I was very struck by the spattering of spots on the bloom and the crêpe like texture of the inner petals as they started to wither and die, and even though it is far from its pristine beauty when it was fresh, I still consider it very beautiful – just in a less traditional way. I decided that to add to the sense of decay for the theme this week, I would strip this photograph of most of its colour, and I gave it an old tin type tatted edge. I hope that you like my choice for this week’s theme, and that it makes you smile.
Inverleigh is a town in Victoria, Australia located twenty-eight kilometres west from the City of Geelong and eighty-seven kilometres from the state capital, Melbourne. The first European known to have visited Inverleigh was the surveyor J.H. Wedge who arrived in 1835, probably naming the Leigh River after his Tasmanian farm 'Leighlands'. Very soon thereafter the Weatherboard Station land was taken up either by George Russell or by station manager David Fisher on behalf of The Derwent Company. It was claimed that the weatherboard homestead built by the station manager was Victoria's first weatherboard homestead. The name of the station is now commemorated by Weatherboard Road. Inverleigh Primary School began as a Presbyterian church school in 1865 and was taken over by the Victorian government in 1873. A residence was built at the school in 1912, while the school was extended in 1956. A second school, Murkeduke State School, opened south-west of the township on the 10th of September 1917 and closed on the 2nd of August 1932. The Post Office opened on 11 October 1856.
Beauty, Like the Rose, Very Soon Must Fade
“I cherish dead roses as they live between the pages of my books. I believe, a fresh rose is loved for its beauty but the dead one is beyond beauty.” – A.K. (writer).
The theme for "Looking Close on Friday" the 8th of August is "fading beauty in flora". This rain spoiled rose bloom, which is slowly fading as it dies, I found in the gardens of an old Church of England in the Victorian country town of Inverleigh. I was very struck by the spattering of spots on the bloom and the crêpe like texture of the inner petals as they started to wither and die, and even though it is far from its pristine beauty when it was fresh, I still consider it very beautiful – just in a less traditional way. I decided that to add to the sense of decay for the theme this week, I would strip this photograph of most of its colour, and I gave it an old tin type tatted edge. I hope that you like my choice for this week’s theme, and that it makes you smile.
Inverleigh is a town in Victoria, Australia located twenty-eight kilometres west from the City of Geelong and eighty-seven kilometres from the state capital, Melbourne. The first European known to have visited Inverleigh was the surveyor J.H. Wedge who arrived in 1835, probably naming the Leigh River after his Tasmanian farm 'Leighlands'. Very soon thereafter the Weatherboard Station land was taken up either by George Russell or by station manager David Fisher on behalf of The Derwent Company. It was claimed that the weatherboard homestead built by the station manager was Victoria's first weatherboard homestead. The name of the station is now commemorated by Weatherboard Road. Inverleigh Primary School began as a Presbyterian church school in 1865 and was taken over by the Victorian government in 1873. A residence was built at the school in 1912, while the school was extended in 1956. A second school, Murkeduke State School, opened south-west of the township on the 10th of September 1917 and closed on the 2nd of August 1932. The Post Office opened on 11 October 1856.