Street Songlines

Thursday, 7 August 2014

plants divide traffic...

view of the Nepean Highway as it passes the entrance to the Dromana Hub shopping centre...

Wednesday, 6 August 2014

emerging spring wattle...

spring wattle emerging on the Arthurs Seat road winding down to Dromana...

Tuesday, 5 August 2014

sign of Main Ridge...

main road through Main Ridge on the Mornington Peninsula...

Monday, 4 August 2014

McCrae village shops...

after heavy rain, this McCrae village street is quiet and empty...

Sunday, 3 August 2014

peace after rain...

view of a McCrae street on the Mornington Peninsula...
The view is from a beach entrance, on the lower portion of the photo,
looking toward Arthurs Seat rising in the background...

Saturday, 2 August 2014

quiet street...

quiet street at McCrae on the Mornington Peninsula...

Friday, 1 August 2014

ball skills on parade...

demonstrating ball skills in the street at the 2014 Westernport Festival parade at Hastings earlier this year...

the road was wet with rain...

The road was wet with rain, black and shiny like oilskin. The reflection of the street lamps wallowed like yellow jelly-fish. A bus was approaching - a bus to Piccadilly, a bus to the never-never land - a bus to death or glory.

I found neither. I found something which haunts me still.

The great bus swayed as it sped. The black street gleamed. Through the window a hundred faces fluttered by as though the leaves of a dark book were being flicked over. And I sat there, with a sixpenny ticket in my hand. What was I doing! Where was I going?

("Same Time, Same Place")
Mervyn Peake - Weird Shadows From Beyond: An Anthology Of Strange Stories

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