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Index Card-a-day Challenge #4 Mailbox & #5 Owl

I did both cards to-day to catch up.

# 4: Mailbox.  In my fantasy word we don’t have mailboxes. The postmaster pops your name in the local newspaper if you have mail, and you send along some money for it to be delivered – or you pay and pick up yourself. This is a bit of actual text from an early Sydney newspaper (1809).

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#5: Owl.  Well, this is a bit iffy. It’s a bit askew. I got annoyed with it halfway through.

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I printed out a cropped photo from online, then cut it into pieces to use as templates for the coloured paper. Not very subtle. [sigh] But it is growing on me. As well as the paper, I used a black gel pen, liquid paper and gold foil.

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Sally D’s Mobile Photography Challenge: Nature (sycamore leaves)

Sally D’s Mobile Photography Challenge: Nature

This week’s theme is Nature, so I’m sharing a set of photos taken on my walk with my Nokia Lumia 530 windows phone.  I was trying to show these leaves with some light on the water. The recent rains had encouraged a crop of new grass in the drainage hollow.

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Oh-oh, that’s Vika’s shadow in the last image.

I’ve got two index cards to do to-day. Yesterday, my two working stints were sandwiched between two migraines and I just didn’t have the will to be creative. I thought of combining the two prompts – mailbox and owl – into the one card, but I discovered Harry Potter has already been there, done that!

Have a good day.  ❤

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Did I mention the house across the road used to be a pub?

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The Lake Hotel [1851-1891]. That is probably Mr Etheredge standing out front.

The photo is out of copyright. The State Library of Victoria’s website says:

Weatherboard building with gabled corrugated iron roof and verandah, large gas(?) lamp on corner of roof. ‘Lake Hotel’ sign on verandah roof in front of gable, the name C. Etheredge on sign on verandah on side of building. Man standing in front of verandah.

They reckon the original photo was taken in the 1880s, but this is a donated reprint done in the 1940s. Apparently the original wooden bar is still in the front room.

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Line of men standing in front of a tent hotel, one man holding a guitar, mostly in shirtsleeves, hats, beards, one man in sacking apron, a single woman standing in the middle of the line. Tent behind them with sign ‘Lake Hotel / C. Etheredge’. Fence in foreground. Men possibly gold miners.

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Looking along dirt road towards hotel in left background, dwellings and other buildings behind paling fence, forested hill rising in background. A group of children standing with a man on the road (school group).

I’m glad I went looking for more photos of the Lake Hotel. I haven’t seen these latter ones. They were all donated to the State Library of Victoria in 2008 by a Ms Pam Dewhurst.
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Wet … and The Lake Hotel

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