Animate/Inanimate

On Sunday we drove up to Healesville to see the exhibition at TarraWarra Museum of Art, Animate/Inanimate. Photos show detail of works by Lin Tianmiao, Janet Laurence and Louise Weaver.

Exhibition continues til October 6th, definitely worth a country drive.

The Farm

Last week we drove in a convoy down the coast with Nic and the kids. We donned gumboots and tramped around the farm. It was the first visit and definitely not the last. So nice. School holidays meant kick to kick, chess, hair braiding and sitting for portraits, a spot of orchard envying and a game of STACKS ON ADAM!

Kicking a football is not easy in gumboots.




Driving through the Otway national park to get there is amazing – windows down, heads out, breathing in the good tree air – it reminds me of home. We saw superb fairy wrens, koalas, kangaroos, a tiger snake, a swamp wallaby and a stray cat. We drank Otway beer and ate fish and chips at Apollo Bay. We drove to Gelibrand and had lunch in the idyllic pub beergarden where we were joined by cute puppies. It really felt like holidays.

Good Saturday

We piled into the van for a drive to Lake Eppalock, where Don talked to Don about fishing.

talking to the animals

It's spring and the animals are everywhere. We saw parrots, a miniature horse foal OMG! CUTE! and baby lambs and black wallabies and kangaroos, fat lizards and an ancient wombat with mange.

Escape to the mountains!

I'm going to put on my Canadian Tuxedo and head for the hills. We have a car for a few days, and plan to fill it with warm things; To visit some mountains and trees, some family and some op shops and to buy some country produce and probably some old junk.