More than 4 seasons in 1 day

Experienced some dramatic weather on Saturday, and while I didn't set out to capture it - was just admiring it - some became part of the image anyway.
Here is a selection in the order in which they occurred, with no playing at the edit process.

Monumental weekend

And I do mean 'monumental' as in the dictonary connotation - "historical prominent".
I visited some cemeteries, like the lonely Sailor's Home Cemetery

And some notable headstones - on the left is the single grave beside Simson Street in Brim, and on the right is George Bell in the tiny Lake Coorong Pioneer Cemetery in Hopetoun.

Another lone grave (and lonely too) John Archbold's grave at the top of Lake Albacutya, needed to wade through a wheat crop while scaling the hill to reach the two pines overlooking his memorial.

But it wasn't only about dead people monuments, there were the two Silo Art Trail murals, definitely giant monuments - 

Fintan Magee's at Patche (still not convinced about the dead tree), but it does look impressive on the approach to town from the east and from the north.

And there can never be too many of the Brim silo, especially as I'm still to be there on a sunny afternoon. This was relatively early with the sun behind the silo.

And I had both to myself, no other photographers in sight.

Then there were the small monuments - see if you can spot the brown sign (not the hand-painted sign on the fence)

 
This as the sign says was the first site of the Tyenna (Tempy East) school, a single room weatherboard building with an open fireplace, situated there from 1923 to 1946.

The guys who erected the sign didn't anticipate the  growth of the old peppercorn tree. 

Little wonder that someone else took it upon themselves to create the hand painted one on the cyclone fence. 

Further west there was this poignant  building - 

The Echunga State School No. 4481 (originally known as Gaalanungah West, alternate named Euchunga and Weeroona). It opened in June 1931 in the rented Echunga Hall (erected for school purposes), a limestone rubble building rendered in concrete. It was situated on the road between Hopetoun and Yaapeet (a road busy with hay carters). The school closed in 1947. Sad when the local people had put so much effort into establishing it.

Another monument to our build/create and abandon/discard, this car rusting away just north of Rainbow.

And finally one of nature's monuments, this is a panoramic shot of Lake Hindmarsh, taken from 'The Cliffs'.

As big as the sky

Have to acknowledge the Yarriambiack Shire who are chasing dollars for 'the world's biggest art gallery'.

On the back of the phenomenal success of the Brim Silo Art, which has had a huge benefit for the Brim township and the Shire, Yarriambiack is proposing a 'Silo Art Trail' - a 200km trail of landscape size silo art from Rupanyup in the south to Patchewollock in the north.
At the end of 2015, internationally renowned Brisbane-based artist Guido van Helten worked for 3 weeks, up to 10 hours a day, including Christmas Day and New Year's Day, in frequent 40-degree heat and strong winds, using spray paint and acrylic house paint, to breathe new life into Brim’s disused grain silos with a 30m by 30m artwork.

Guidio van Helten is a well-known and recognised muralist, check out some of Guido's other great work via his webpage, some of them in much colder climates.

: Lynton Brown's drive-by video
: 7News video
: ABC Rural's article on the people on the silo
: Brim Silo Art Project

The sheer scale of the work

The rest is now social media history, the story and photos from iphones and by professional photographers has swept around the world. The Brim Silo Art has brought a variety of visitors and tourists to Brim, and they are still coming, to gape in awe at the enormity of the scale of the project, and at Guido’s skill in rendering the figures.

Now, Yarriambiack Mayor Cr Ray Kingston wants to commission other renowned artists to paint giant murals on silos along the length of the municipality at Rup, Sheep Hills, Rosebery, Lascelles and Patche.

Discussions are taking place with the local communities, Graincorp, Juddy Roller (who helped bring Guido Van Helten to Brim), and government. They are targeting high profile street artists for the project, so it would be great to see, say an Adnate piece decorating a silo wall.

Adnate, Geelong B power station

As Dean Lawson, from the Weekly Advertiser' stated it is a master stroke for increasing growth and development via tourism in Yarriambiack, as visitors will want to tick off each location as they bag each 'peak', in the biggest regional art project in Australia's history.