On the steep southern facade the play of golden light and deep violet shade
Joan Lindsay
revealed the intricate construction of long vertical slabs; some smooth as giant tombstones,
others grooved and fluted by prehistoric architecture of wind and water, ice and fire.
Huge boulders, originally spewed red hot from the boiling bowels of the earth,
now come to rest, cooled and rounded in forest shade.
Picnic at Hanging Rock
