Along the Merri Creek path there are various memorials and markers. Here are three very similar ones, all from 1985, and all using a huge boulder of local stone.
This contrast provokes me to start thinking about how I am going to organise my book. Topographically? a chapter about the Merri Creek. Thematically? a chapter about memorials. Chronologically? a chapter about historical styles? Politically? I suspect this marker isn't made from local bluestone at all, but from the Chinese bluestone Melbourne increasingly uses to preserve its local heritage styling.
But here is a more recent marker from the same path along the Merri Creek, less commemorative and more instructional or indicative in nature. Not only are the graphics quite different, even quite cute (cute dog and cute snake, while the "carry out rubbish" makes this inner-urban park seem like a wilderness campsite) but the stone is markedly different, both in shape, orientation and quality.
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