Aden finds a home

 Arion took Aden home after his visit for my birthday and put it in the frame it was made for.

I've also done more work on Adelyn

It's feeling a bit better.

More on Adelle

I've been pottering away on Adelle. It's my intention just to keep going until my unconscious and conscious tell me I've reached stasis. I'm also working on Adelyn, but it fills me with despair at the moment. It looks alright as a photo, but the reality is different.

Warm weather at Tullycavan

I went to Tullycavan today to finish the first round of ragwort spraying and I spent some time cutting up a Blackwood that has come down over a fence.

The Pawlonia is flowering.

The Blackwood. They are not a long lived tree and having a load of mistletoe didn't help it.

This little worm was hiding out among the wood. I presume that the colour is a warning not to eat.

Hmm Something

Creeping dissatisfaction caught up with me. So I I've done more work on Aden.

There's more to do on Adelle as there always is I suppose, but I enjoy the process of working my way through the suggestions the painting makes to me.

Is this too sentimental

On Thursday we had a family get together, for those of  us who could we had a barbecue and tree planting, which  has become a family tradition. We plant trees in remembrance of those that have left us and those living. Our father loved trees and therefore his influence continues when we plant them as well as I remember my grandfather saying something along the lines of the greatness of a culture that plants trees that it will never sit under the shade of. There is an amount of sentiment in family get togethers that is sweet, wonderful and sustaining. Not weighed down with unrealistic expectations. I draw from its sustenance.

Basically the same except for some of the nieces are looking in different directions.

More on Adele and Aden

Adele slow working towards a resolution.

Aden a quick blast of a painting.

From This to This

I reached the point where I felt completely uncomfortable with the first version of Adele because it was too regular or rigid or something. I left Adele out in the rain for a while then scrubbed the paint off, restretched the paper and started again. The beginnings are above.

Artists I like

Artists that I stumbled upon wandering through blogs and that I really like are

Lars Norgard http://www.larsnorgard.dk/

Clark Goolsby http://blog.clarkgoolsby.com/

Tremain Smith http://www.tremainsmith.com.new/

Jonathon Oxlade http://jonnyapplehead.blogspot.com

Here I am

Here I am

hidden within myself

opaque yet transparent

A pillar on the horizon

standing in the wind

arms by my side

clenched hands

in waiting

yet still, waiting

for

the moment of epiphany

Some Queensland Photos

Near Gympie

Bushfires started by lightening

From Carlo sandblow looking out to sea with shadow from smoke

Bundaberg Rum Factory

In the Whitsunday's

Shute Harbour

Sugar cane train

Magnetic Island from the Strand in Townsville

Blackdown Tableland National Park

Carnarvon Gorge National Park

I don't know

Back from Holidays

Well we are back from holidays. We've driven over 6000 kilometres and bent the rims on 4 wheels on the car. We got as far north as Townsville. We swam with fish. An emu was very indecisive about committing suicide on our car, therefore adrenaline flowed generously. We caught up with friends. We saw wonderful places. We soaked hot artesian water. We saw bushfires from a huge sandblow. We saw a dead sunfish on a beach. And other stuff.