Anne Spudvilas on creating a picture book

IN THE GRAMPS

AFTER A DAY ON THE ROAD i'm at don's at Lake Lonsdale, a warm day yesterday but this morning it sounds wild out there, rainy and windy.  off to geelong today for two weeks in torquay :0)   looking forward to it.

resident kooka
sitting on the
lockmaster's
chimney -
don informed me
it's daceloi leachii

selfie taken, trying to get a bio pic with background but this doesn't cut it - the tree is spectacular though - on the golfcourse

 wenty thinks it's still autumn,  plain trees in the main street

lunch on the side of the road, eating a birchip bakery pastie :0)

a lovely old facade in Donald

 back in the grampians

beestings, vanilla
slices and choc
eclairs from the
magnificent
birchip bakery -
could pastry
be any lighter??

brrr brrr brrr STILL

BOY it's been icy, my woodpile is seriously low.  good old steele, my lawnmower man came and chainsawed a lot of big fallen wood on my land, he went through three chains and hasn't been back to finish, i hope the chainsaw is still working 😧
i have an unpleasant visitor out the back, a feral cat in a cage that's been there all weekend. i forgot to close the flap so i've caught it when the ranger isn't working.  it has a blanket over the cage and has dined on sardines for two days.   the vet says it'll be fine - going out to check now before i ring the vet.   good to watch all the little wrens and yellow parrots out in the garden knowing they're safe - for now.
not many photos, it's been so cold i've done indoor stuff including making a heavy curtain to keep the warm in the living room.  today - moving furniture and putting up the curtain rail.

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lake hawthorn - on the way to mildura to buy curtain fabric at spotlight

friend graeme and his fiance tuleh - she's turkish and they're
on holiday in istanbul.  great to see his photos of so many familiar
places.   and great to hear today that Erdogan has lost power in
istanbul, maybe turkey will regain some of its secular nature.
i hope there's no trouble, graeme says there's very visible security
everywhere, soldiers, weapons standing guard

i have an unpleasant visitor out the back, a feral cat in a cage that's been there all weekend. i forgot to close the flap so i've caught it when the ranger isn't working.  it has a blanket over the cage and has dined on sardines for two days.   the vet says it'll be fine - going out to check now before i ring the vet.   good to watch all the little wrens and yellow parrots out in the garden knowing they're safe - for now.

 Really looking forward to this exhibition next monday - and the         chinese warriors,  a train trip with janet :0)

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BRRR winter is here

IT'S  .,SUNNY TODAY but the air has turned chilly, i'll light the fire this afternoon.  just farewelled my fourth airbnbers for the past month, new zealanders travelling around for 3 months, heading for broken hill and beyond.

CAL and MARA look pretty happy in their groovy new school which looks likes it's been assembled from ikea flatpacks, very groovy and scandy.  It looks free and fun.

              crazy cal  :0)   does he ever stop?? apparently he's
              into tom cruise now, hence the stunts

this was a wonderful film "the dancer" all about loie fuller and her amazing dance act in the folies berger, fin de siecle

jenny leach has put up a website selling helen's art on cards.  i love this image, i'm wondering if it's still around as a painting

UPDATE OVERDUE :0(

GOLLY i haven't written anything here since may 29 - i'll backtrack thru my photos to remember what's been happening, nothing much, it's a quiet year

cal being cal, rene says he's right into tom cruise 'mission impossible' so i guess this is a 'tom' move

i take these

pics for 

sonja who

regularly

posts a pic

of the T&G

and its palms

- it's an iconic

sonja image

   



yes, i'm still steeped
in romeo & juliet -
but now i've actually
submitted grant
applications to
australia council,

 copyright agency and
also a residency
application to
bundanon on the
shoalhaven river






these pics were taken on a really cold day, last week we had a cold
snap and the fire was going night and day for a week.  the pelicans
were huddled on the shore, i felt like knitting them jumpers

a pic i took on the kitchen bench in the evening without a flash, i posted it and everyone responded with 'you have to make it a painting'

   maybe they can paint it :0)

It's winter but autumn is hanging in there,  fine by me

LAKE HAWTHORN on the way home this weekend

 SATURDAY was Worldwide Knit in Public day and we got together down at the Makers' hall - a group of fifteen knitted and swapped stories and patterns over lunch of hot vege soup i made, plus sausage rolls and slices  -  i must be living in a country town community.

this is a really interesting cowl pattern i'm going to make

anne hederics with a couple of coomealla golf club ladies

i'm going to adapt this pattern and knit it

butcher bird in the makers garden on richard's sculpture

last night was the most amazing sunset, bright pink in the east and
crazy rolling colour in the west

Had a nice walk on the island with sue this morning, then coffee
on the riverbank - after the cold week it's been lovely, today was
actually warm, no wind, perfect.  i've had an airbnb guest here who's been visiting salty lake sites and dancing in them, filming herself to make a video installation about salination.  she'll be bringing it back here to perform, it'll be interesting to see how she does it, i can't imagine.

funny to see a pigeon bathing in the river

funny little houseboat - sue's interested in
building one so i'll
document anything
small and interesting
i see going by.

butcher bird at the
bird bath outside
the kitchen window

late autumn continues

rough drawing for a romeo&juliet cover idea