I can report some stitching this week, but it was of necessity, not anything creative or inspiring. I replaced a zip in a handbag for my daughter, though for the time it took I could have stitched a new bag! It is a carry all shoulder bag that she originally requested and designed some years ago for everyday use and travelling. I get to make a new one as they wear out. She left it with a soulful "Mum, can you fix this?" when she visited a couple of weeks back, so I thought I'd better have a go.
Apart from that I'm still busy with art and lino cutting classes. I am enjoying both without any particular projects in mind - just new techniques and posibilities for future work. These pictures show different types of cut, and a single colour print, a two colour print and a three layer print
Managed to eat out a couple of times during Rachel's visit (can highly recommend The Salpopian Inn at Mclaren Vale salopian.com.au/ and Little nnq on Gouger Streert www.nnq.com.au/littlennq/ ) and we spent some time at our splendid Monarto Zoo www.monartozoo.com.au
the sentinel meerkat
hungry chimps
deer in the shade, seeming so delicate
giraffes v the bus - seeing things in proportion
white rhino and baby
hyena in top condition
and laid back lions after dinner
Adelaide is very much alive at the moment - mad March we call it, but it begins in February (or you might even say January, with the Tour Down Under Cycling) as the city hosts The Fringe Festival, The Festival of Arts, Writers Week, WOMAdelaide, the Clipsal 500 race and possibly some I have forgotten. I'm going to WOMAD on Friday but won't get to much else. I can report that I did see a race car on Friday - I had a dental appointment in the city and the track (which is on city streets) passed nearby. Through a break in the screening I got this shot - would make a good ad for the fencing people or Holden!
The folk on the balcony and this camera crew had a much better view though
Saw this very effective CD curtain on North Terrace, but I was nearly past the reflective point when I got the photo
and the front of the Art Gallery looked splendid in the filtered sunlight. They do generally hang advertising banners on the front, but these seemed particularly bright and colourful.
The weather lately has been very hot and humid (for Adelaide) with some thundery showers. The blue skies and fluffy white clouds have been picture perfect
The sunrise yesterday
and rainbow in the opposite sky foretold some showers
From the garden, the birds have eaten the tomatoes (learning to take them at just colouring stage to beat me) but fortunately they've left the capsicums and eggplants! And this is a photo of heat stressed bay leaves - quite beautiful I think, with very interesting marking.
Apart from that I'm still busy with art and lino cutting classes. I am enjoying both without any particular projects in mind - just new techniques and posibilities for future work. These pictures show different types of cut, and a single colour print, a two colour print and a three layer print
Managed to eat out a couple of times during Rachel's visit (can highly recommend The Salpopian Inn at Mclaren Vale salopian.com.au/ and Little nnq on Gouger Streert www.nnq.com.au/littlennq/ ) and we spent some time at our splendid Monarto Zoo www.monartozoo.com.au
Adelaide is very much alive at the moment - mad March we call it, but it begins in February (or you might even say January, with the Tour Down Under Cycling) as the city hosts The Fringe Festival, The Festival of Arts, Writers Week, WOMAdelaide, the Clipsal 500 race and possibly some I have forgotten. I'm going to WOMAD on Friday but won't get to much else. I can report that I did see a race car on Friday - I had a dental appointment in the city and the track (which is on city streets) passed nearby. Through a break in the screening I got this shot - would make a good ad for the fencing people or Holden!
The weather lately has been very hot and humid (for Adelaide) with some thundery showers. The blue skies and fluffy white clouds have been picture perfect
From the garden, the birds have eaten the tomatoes (learning to take them at just colouring stage to beat me) but fortunately they've left the capsicums and eggplants! And this is a photo of heat stressed bay leaves - quite beautiful I think, with very interesting marking.
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