Buying Fish for Tea

Down to the beach to buy fresh  fish for tea. It's threatened by State Government changes. So we signed the petition.

Zad

My guess is that it's finished.

Za Series

 At the end, I think?

More to go.

Drawings

I want to cry

to mourn

the lost

the broken 

the unfulfilled

but here I am

now not then

that is what I have to offer

 Watercolour pencil on rice paper. Not really finished, but probably not going any further.

An old thought returns one afternoon.

A longer journey ahead.

A little awkward, but Zaa says most of the right things.

An Old List of Films I Like

More Grass

Bulga Park and Tullycavan

 Bulga Park in the eastern Strezlecki's is a little bit of temperate rain forest with mountain ash, antarctic beech and tree ferns & etc. On Sunday we had a family picnic there. A sublime time with weather, food and conversation giving delight to life.

 Coming down Mount Tasman into the valley.

My little obsession with pattern and texture.

Seeing in the New Year

We drove to Inverloch to picnic on New Years Eve. It was a beautiful late afternoon driving down the tree lined country roads with the paddocks a pale green after being cut for hay and the other grass long and yellow. We picnicked on the beach and wandered into down for the early fireworks.

Potatoes Growing

Today we got some watering for the potatoes. As you can see from the ones in the front which look a bit stressed this is needed. We have been lucky though with at least little bits of rain now and then still falling to help the plants along. 

Our First Paddle of the Summer

A Glorious day today and a chance to go for a paddle to try out our Christmas presents from Atalanta of PFD's. Off to Blue Rock Lake. I still can't work out how to paddle straight, but it is still fun paddling in the warm still air. Resting on the water, taking in the view and the silence. Now back at home my skin is can still feel the touch of the sun, although not burnt. My fingers smell of sunblock. The evocative smell of summer.

On Christmas Day

Walking back to the house on the post prandial walk. We'd walked to see how trees planted on our tree planting days were going. In particular the woolamai pine. We'd eaten well and enjoyed conversation with one heated exchange peppering up proceedings.