earth matters

driving to Murray Bridge yesterday to pack up my exhibition 

took me along one of my favourite local roads

first there's a bit where the eastern escarpment of Mount Lofty Ranges drops away 

into what locals call "the flats"

where looking into the opaline heart of the continent brings to mind that line from Dorothea Mackellar's poem My Country 

impossible to photograph as the camera gives it a one-eyed squint 

that simply doesn't capture the grandeur

it's the kind of landscape that is best drawn or painted

so i can't really show you the big picture

on the other hand i can show details.

 driving along this road should take about 40 minutes

it can take me all day

later, heading back up into the ranges

i stopped for a closer look at a new cutting

and found

contemporary petroglyphs