HOME AGAIN

AFTER A NIGHT with sunny at janet and bevans,  dinner and a good night's sleep, we had breakfast with them and bevan's daughter melinda and granddaughter mia.   then on to Kyo for a browse - so much there to see

then boo hoo, goodbye sunny - i dropped her at the marshall station and headed back to stay the night at gail's in torquay. I'll be seeing sunny again soon though so that'll be lovely.

after  a cosy night of visiting anne and den and playing with their funny grandson max - what a chuckler - i spent the late evening with gail and left early to drive up to the grampians to stay with jen and rob at sierra vista in stawell.   lots of op shops to drop into and it's always a great drive

AFTER A NIGHT OF
BBQ AND SCRABBLE i drove home through charlton and st arnaud and op shopped some more.
coincidentally as i stopped at the loo in charlton i met susan wald coming out of the one cubicle.  talk about timing, she was just heading back to melbourne from the artvault, i was heading home.  

very cute building in stawell  - the funeral parlour

i had to climb the fence into the stawell cemetery to take photos - i got half way over the cyclone wire fence (about waist height) and got stuck because my pants caught on the wire.  an interesting moment but i extricated myself and found a slightly lower spot. a lovely old cemetery that i'll visit again when it's not raining.

this is the prettiest little house on the main road into stawell, it doesn't
show up well in this pic,  a mass of textures and surfaces

the trusty salvos came up trumps, a lovely cup, some earrings, a necklace to disassemble and throw into my bead box

an amazing wall that's just standing - the front of an old building - the owner's piled dirt up behind it to support it.  absolutely beautiful coloured stonework

lovely old cinema in charlton

why do i always thing of joan crawford whenever i pass this deserted roadhouse?   

ON THE ROAD

I'M DOWN SOUTH AGAIN,  last thursday i headed off on a lovely cool morning. we had about four steady hours of rain during the night so it was a good feeling to leave a damp garden behind.  our printmaking show at TUSSOCK opens on saturday so i'll stay with helen and don tonight and pick up sunny tomorrow to head down the coast.

good old don came up with the goods again, delicious leg of lamb and roast veges :0)

 FRIDAY   a nice drive, a bit of op shopping but as usual as i hit melbourne traffic i gradually crossed things i'd planned to do off my list one by one as the hours ticked by.  i did get to see dallas buyers club and thought matthew mccaunaghy and jared leto were terrific

lygon street, looking good at night as i came out of the nova

 brunswick street, waiting for 
sunny

WE DROVE down to jenny and freddy's at torquay and had an hour or so with them before crashing into bed.

Saturday, brekky down the road with jenny and freddie and then the exhibition opening at point lonsdale

WE DROVE down to jenny and freddy's at torquay and had an hour or so with them before crashing into bed.
Saturday, brekky down the road with jenny and freddie and then the exhibition opening at point lonsdale

WEDNESDAY AT THE VAULT

A GOOD DAY EVENTUALLY - by the middle of the day i felt i was drowning in computer folders, trying to find things but now i'm getting my own system of folders going for the work i do and by the end of the day i was feeling some sense of accomplishment.   still getting to know the PC too.  but a lot of the day was spent taking pics of the two resident artists, our susans, and seeing what they were producing.  

susan wald producing her big dramatic monoprints, i've learned a couple of new things from her - a perk of the job :0)

our yarn-dyed tree, must get a better pic

susan baran printing in the studio,  same studio i had each time i did a residency - spacious and light filled

dear andrew and rob in deakin ave

susan wald's monoprints - done from watercolour sketches she did at theatre rehearsals
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this weeks work, getting this invite done and posted online and emailed, also walking around the block getting local restaurants to put it in their window.

this gorgeous sculpture by geoffrey ricardo sits outside the life
at the art vault

the drive home to wenty

sakura time in osaka right now

WHOO HOO

MY NEW CAMERA HAS ARRIVED - I'LL BE BUSY ALL DAY,   PHOTOS VERY SOON

50x zoom, RAW format, lens 24mm to 1200mm

can't wait for that new battery to charge up

 unfortunately the CD of information and instructions and RAW download software won't open on my operating system. just a

nudge for me to get an updated

Macbook Air.   will do :0)

unfortunately the CD of information and instructions and RAW download software won't open on my operating system. just a
nudge for me to get an updated
Macbook Air.   will do :0)