One Word Photo Challenge

One Word Photo Challenge: Bronze

This weeks photo for Jennifer’s One Word Photo Challenge: Bronze

daniel oconnell Statue of ‘Liberator’ Daniel O’Connell in the grounds of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Melbourne, Australia.

Daniel O’Connell was an Irish political leader in the first half of the 19th century. He campaigned for Catholic Emancipation and our local Irish population appreciated his actions.

This statue, cast in Belgium,was originally erected in front of the cathedral in 1891, but was later moved to make way for the statue of an Archbishop.  (Taken with my FujiFilm Finepix A607 in 2012.)

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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge, Family History Friday

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Harvest Season

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Earth or the Harvest Season

This is my dad during hay carting season – note the reinforcement patches mum has sewn on the fronts of his trousers to protect him from grass-seeds and chafing.  Photo taken the very late 1950s.
dad cookingThis photo is also a very belated Family History Friday Post.

Dad is heating up a frypan over a small fire he has made in a roadside culvert. He was a great one for improvisation. I’m thinking that is a sauce bottle resting on top of the culvert, not a bottle of beer. It is probably the lunch time break, or even a late breakfast if the men began work at dawn to beat the heat.

In the background, on the other side of the road, is a paddock gleaming in the light. This could be a wheat or oat crop waiting to be harvested. Perhaps it is a paddock dotted with hay bales ready for being tossed on a truck by a gang of labourers.

cees fun photo challenge

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