This week Cee posted a photo and we are to show one or more of the features in it. These include geometry, bushes, window, brick, curtain, green, tan, wall, building, dark red, tree.
© irene waters 2018
In modern Australia curtains are not common. Instead people go for shutters or blinds of some type. In one of these windows there are however curtains. The light house boat was the closest I could get to dark red on the harbour. Predominantly seaside landscapes are white, light and blue. Geometry, of course is found everywhere unlike bushes which don’t appear much in this environment.
© irene waters 2018
This part of the harbour, Barrangaroo, is very old, or at least old for Australia. The first wharves of the new colony were sited here and used for our first exports of sandalwood, seal products, turtle and shell. Within a decade wool became a large export and warehouses were added. Workmans cottages were built in terrace fashion as they had in England out of the small English style brick. Rooves were pitched steeply as they had been in their mother country to allow snow to slide off, despite the fact that Sydney never experienced that phenomenon. The tall building is an old warehouse that has been converted into the Hotel Pallisade. This is well worth the visit if in Sydney as from the top floor, not only is the grub good but the views are spectacular. Taken through a window, so as to fit today’s prompt, this is but one direction that can be seen from the upper levels of the pub. The visible green tree stands lonely.
© irene waters 2018
Bushes and trees become more apparent outside the inner city area.
© irene waters 2018
Modern buildings, some with curtains, mingle side by side with the old, although many old have been demolished to make way for the new. Geometry is apparent with bright yellow spheres (probably communications but I don’t know for sure) sitting atop an old building. New buildings are predominantly white but here we have one with tan colouration.
© irene waters 2018
The one thing that is really noticeable in new buildings as opposed to old are the number of windows. I don’t think our forebears had forgotten the glass tax of old when they designed their buildings or perhaps views were just not that important then. Beyond the brick wall is the harbour foreshore. I could look at that all day, resting under the greenery of a bush or a tree or if in a building, I’d be at the wall with the window that allowed me to see all the geometry.
Reflections and Nightmares- Irene A Waters (writer and memoirist) 
What an interesting glimpse at shapes shaped by history.
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There is geometry in everything – even history. LOL
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Ha!
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A hundred years ago, it was difficult to get glass that was dependable and could withstand the stresses of skyscrapers – wind, rain, temperature range, the height alone were all tough to withstand. Large panes of glass were nearly impossible to create because the techniques for making such large panes that could be used on tall buildings was still being developed, with lots of failures before they figured it out.
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I hadn’t thought of that and you are probably right. I watched a grand designs once where they were trying to make some incredible height of glass – they were even having problems in this technological age.
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Oh Irene, your post this week is so fun and appropriate. 😀
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I enjoyed your pictures and write up, Irene. I think a view wasn’t important to our forefathers. I also like a view although I don’t have one anymore at work. I do miss it and go for a stroll for a change of scenery every so often during the day.
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I agree that views didn’t rate highly but perhaps life was so tough they went for ease rather than aesthetics. Sad you don’t have a view to work to but perhaps it is good to have the excuse to get out and stretch your legs.
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