CUP DAY

I'M FEELING GOOD AGAIN after a day of complete exhaustion yesterday.  Started well though, walking out to the point of the junction island again.  i met steve and dog shirley who were on their way back.  i'm going to take a sketchbook with me and make it a morning ritual.  a walk, some tai chi, some drawing then home via the newsagent to do the crossword. sounds like a good wake up plan.
the rest of the day i just flagged after a bus trip into mildura for an appointment and managed to miss the bus home (didn't check the route) so had 1 1/2 hours to kill when i really felt like lying down.   all part of coming back from a big and busy trip.

the hippeastrums are going
crazy out there, and i found
this gorgeous iris out.   I'm
pleased to see a lot of irises
have flowered, i thought
they'd be too covered in
mulch.

on the walk out

to the point - it's

so untouched and

quiet, a great

place to listen to

birdcalls and try

to learn them.

also watching

the birds, there

are so many

in mildura yesterday - deakin avenue is a mass of purple and wentworth's public plantings are all coming out beautifully too

CUP DAY another walk to the point, this time completely on my own with a coffee, little drawing book and pencils and camera but alas no memory card.  that turned out to be a plus, you look at things in a different way when you're not constantly looking thru a lens.

I FOUND this little

concertina book

in my cupboard full

of journals, it's only

half used, when

i was in china 

with li cunxin. I've

started my daily

drawing exercise,

drawing the

complete opposite

riverbanks from

the junction point,

from the murray

across the lock

to the banks of

the darling.