time's annals...

time's annals filter, #obfuscate bruised ordinary lives #vss365 #haiku #micropoetry

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 30 January 2026 at 08:36

time's annals
filter, #obfuscate bruised
ordinary lives#vss365 #haiku #micropoetry

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) January 29, 2026

history's minefield...

#history's minefield unexploded bombs of truth wait for their moment #vss365 #haiku

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 8 November 2025 at 08:53

caves of yesterday...

caves of yesterday minds, eyes, ears and old voices need identity #identity #haiku #history

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 26 February 2025 at 15:30

in the blink of a human lifetime...

in the blink
of a human lifetime
multiple creases, potholes
and lift offs
slink by
barely scratching
earth's history#micropoetry

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) June 5, 2024

a knocker up...

Love me a little weird history...
A Knocker-up (also known as knocker-upper) =a profession in England+Ireland that started in the Industrial Revolution+lasted till just beyond the 1920s...
More details re Mary Smith (1865-c.1940), London: https://t.co/byI9q7Vk36 https://t.co/E3dsQ46jqT

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) August 14, 2022

Temora building styles...old and new...

Love this wrap-around sign on the Temora Memorial Hall...

Tree shadows add some extra art...

The hall was opened in 1956.

It is a memorial to those who served in the armed forces in World War II.

The police station is opposite the hall, hence the Anzac Day parade yesterday started outside the police station and swung round the memorial hall to Callaghan Park...

The beautiful Diamonds and Dust shop finds its home in this building, a Temora icon...one of the first traders in Temora...

It is about the size of a football field...

The Shamrock Hotel was built in the late 1880's...

It is affectionately known as The Shammy...

Originally, another general store in Temora...

NRCC House is home to Temora Library and Pinnacle Community Services...

It is alongside Temora Medical Complex which was opened November 23, 2012...

 

thoughts for the week...building styles...

This week, I plan on exploring the building styles in Temora main street...So many are enchanting, re-purposed, a history-friendly make-over or brand new...Somehow they all blend together either side of the wide main street...

Here are a few I saw on my first wander...an entree...

Loved the coloured roof tiles on this one...

Temora Hotel...where I had my first dinner out with family...

Loved the window styles inside Temora Hotel...

Melzer House style intrigued me...

You can just see the Sass sign on the street window...a hairdresser, where I will be getting my hair trimmed and blond streaked...

a tree standing alone...

PASSING THOUGHT: Love this bite-size chunk of history behind Temora's name...
The Wiradjuri Dictionary (2010) does not list "temora" or any words similar to it, but the Dharug language dictionary online defines "temora" as "a tree standing alone".https://t.co/Ls2pXmjN2R
YES!

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) April 23, 2022