Friday 29 September 2017

GORGEOUS

IT'S A BEAUTIFUL SUNNY MORNING, there are about five fishing boats on the river, two big houseboats just passed by and my airbnb man has headed back to melbourne.
he's a young czech man travelling alone. he's been all around here, drove up to broken hill yesterday and barely missed hitting an emu.

now he's off to brisbane for a few days then home.  i have the house to myself again so it's gardening for me this weekend. :0)  off to bunnings for new hoses and spray fittings.

Thursday 28 September 2017

GRANDIES

here are cal and mara, 

growing and growing


we have hair!



Wednesday 27 September 2017

WALK TO THE SHOP


BACK INTO WALKING - it's been too long.  the flowers are photographed at a house on a corner with has a garden bed running right around the base of it's brick fence, a blaze of colour - petunias, pansies, roses and irises.



On the golfcourse the magpies are busy finding food for the young ones, there were three littlies in one tree, one in another tree, one magpie busily feeding them all



Sunday 24 September 2017

SAT'DY NIGHT

WELL the cats are out of the finals so i was happy to see richmond win last night.  dinner and the semi final on telly at rob's in red cliffs with two mad tigers fans.  much deep yelling and excitement while sue and i dealt with our knitting :0)  
and an early morning wander round the garden

 





Saturday 23 September 2017

ARTICLE

I'M WRITING an article for Australian Artist magazine about the process of illustrating and creating the Swan Lake book. photographing various stages.





Thursday 21 September 2017

WHOO HOO

Author's copies of Swan Lake have arrived  :0)   busy organising book launches and our group show at tussock, not to mention the illustrators' weekend here on my birthday weekend.  my head is full!
and i have an airbnb guest arriving on sunday, from prague


Monday 18 September 2017

SPRING HAS SPRUNG

COMING UP THE DRIVE i arrived home to a mass of freesias out everywhere, all colours. and the wisteria is out, irises are coming into bud, spring is here.







THE DRIVE

THE CANOLA FIELDS from here to the grampians just spread and spread, from ouyen they're almost non stop and spectacular against the huge blue skies





    these guys held me up for quite a while, 100's of freshly shorn     shaun the sheeps


Sunday 17 September 2017

HOME AGAIN

THE WORKSHOPS wrapped up very happily with people swapping contacts, books that have taken shape ready to go on to the next step and a lively show and tell in the centenary hall.
I loved it, will enjoy returning next year.





annette's book of a friend's story about a fruit bat came along in leaps and bounds



show and tell - at the end of the 2day and 4day workshops we had to head down to the hall and be ready on the dot to race in, set up and look around for about 1/2 an hour.  lots of interesting stuff happening

kaye and i had coffee and wine afterwards in this great little cafe/bar, in a pretty weatherboard house behind the visitor centre, great
atmosphere and lovely light, nice wine and great company.














Headed off to helen's for the night, another beautiful roast cooked by donald mcDuck and an early night for all. helen and don's garden is looking gorgeous, Hall Gap and the grampians are lush after much rain and there was wildlife everywhere.







Thursday 14 September 2017

A GREAT WEEK

LAST DAY TODAY of the four-day workshop and it's worked so well.  i wondered how we'd fill four days but everyone's been so busy sorting out their ideas and developing their books in different ways.
and with seven in the class it's been really personal, we've become friends in a really comfortable setting - despite crazy winds and deluges of rain and hail.



We found time to fill up my new slow cooker with concertina books full of leaves found in the garden here, eucalyptus, grevillea and surprisingly, crimson rhododendrons that printed a lovely soft blue/lavender/grey




the grampians look spectacular in this weather and we've been watching from our warm cosy room :0)






BEFORE THE
CRAZY
WEATHER
SET IN