IT'S A WHOLE NEW YEAR

 

IT STILL FEELS like holiday time,  people everywhere, cabanas all along the beach, cars bumper to bumper all along the esplanade. But it's nice time to clean up the garden, i've made a mosaic house number to put out the front,  and today - hooray hooray - i actually printed four plates, two existing bathers prints and two new ones.  they look weak, not sure why but maybe the blanket's not the right one or i need to etch them deeper. i've forgotten what to do !!

the water is as gorgeous as ever every morning

I have birdbaths all around the garden but the little 

honeyeaters love my blocked up guttering on the studio

Time in Melbourne

i met Sandra under the clocks at flinders street station and we trammed it out to glen eira town hall gallery to see a terrifiic exhibition of portraits by graeme drendel, lewis miler, peter wegner, mike vale and more

     

TERRIFIC CLOUDS ON THE FORESHORE

A lovely christmas day at Susan's,  great food and company and a lovely 

walk and swim at Eastern Beach with about 10,000 people. Sunny Luke and 

Etta came up the day before so we had an afternoon at the beach, and i got 

to see Etta experiencing her first real Cristmas, she was so excited in the 

morning, eyes like saucers :0)    

      everything was just delightful

    

    Salties and Yacht Club xmas breakup

a visit to the Grampians with Jenny to see Don.  

always good to spend time at Lake Lonsdale

 

   lucky shot

a new knitting project - a cropped jacket for winter in this lovely colour 'chilli' from Bendigo knitting mills

SWIMMING EVERY DAY at sunrise, always great no matter what the weather.  

pic by michelle westaway