Is it already spring on the south coast?

I spent the last couple of days at Huskisson on the South Coast. It was warm, sunny and still. Absolutely perfect spring weather. Beach, good coffee, dolphins......not bad, not bad at all.

How perfect is this?

winter holiday

Grand children, home made bread, knitting.......


winter holiday :-)

My sister's house

This is my sister Dianne,

and these are pictures of her home.

You can tell that she is an interesting, creative and lovely person can't you? She is.

Cutest coffee EVER!

At the National Gallery of Australia, afternoon tea with a good friend and I got THIS coffee! Is that the cutest coffee ever or what?

artistic coffee @ the NGA!

 This is the same friend who gave me the gorgeous black and white knitted/felted top I am wearing in the photo below. How I score buddies like this, I don't know. Just got lucky I guess.

I've been ultra busy the last few weeks finishing up the work for my Diploma of Art and Design. We finished up the semester with an exhibition of our work. It was a great little exhibition. I have nothing but grand praise for the quality of teaching and teachers at CIT in Canberra. The diploma has been excellent, I am looking forward to the Advanced Dip!

I did a lot of drawing and made a short film of the process, inspired by William Kentridge.

 I also painted lots of self portraits! I am starting to feel like Frida Kahlo, just need a parrot and some fancy jewellery.

 ....'I could drink a case of you, darling, and I would still be on my feet, I would still be on my feet'

Has anyone seen this tree?

On a recent drive-through visit to South Gippsland in Victoria we were lured to a popular local tourist attraction. 
We followed a sign directing us to 'The World's Tallest Tree'. Naturally we were excited and filled with anticipation......

Read carefully..'if the tree grew here..' That is a big 'if''.

There is actually nothing there, not even a leaf.

 It is a very celebrated non-tree. We wondered whether the world's biggest eagle once lived here, in the world's tallest tree. 


Much of South Gippsland is a huge, seriously gigantic and growing, hole which used to have coal in it (and rocks and topsoil, grass, trees, bugs, birds, marsupials and so on), but there is nothing there now. So I suppose that a special place commemorating where something once grew is appropriate.