A sampling of words

View from our place

From time to time my creative juices flow a different direction, away from making art to writing poetry and short stories. Here's a sampling, I don't suggest they're professionally written on any level

From the earth I stand

Absorbed in a blue-tinged moon

contemplating

she wanted silhouettes to capture a calm night

mystery still quietly existed while everyone slept

growing tired of the slime of the camouflaged drain

when will they let their bad dream down

tired

got my universal love

cried my tears of compassion

but they ain't got no power

As Winter passes the turquoise grows deeper

There are sprigs of sapling green and the scarlet of petals

The ocean is deep and dark in places

Just hold me and run with me

So we can begin

Bandicoot!

Last weekend we enjoyed a gorgeous picnic in the Mt Lofty Botanic Gardens. Mt Lofty is our highest "mountain" in our state and really the only place that receives more than a very rare sprinkling of snow sometimes in winter. So it's cooler up there than elsewhere around and more suited to the growth of European gardens. The Gardens include beautiful eucalypts but there is also a rose garden, conifer garden, camelia garden and other areas.


We set our picnic rug up in the conifers area. The ground was cool and despite the heat of the day the air was cool there too.




We unpacked our curried egg and lettuce sandwiches made with homemade bread. It didn't take long for the local Bandicoots to scurry into the scene. These little creatures are native animals but they like living there under the bushes. They move a bit like a rabbit...




This was a small family picnic. I've had many picnics there before. Picnics alone and also romantic champagne picnics. The sweet Bandicoots are always there to keep us company.

Since Spring

Each time I visit blogspot I'm amazed at the beautiful blogs I see. From vintage photos to works of art to artists books and just moments or scenes captured with a camera. So much thought and time put into sharing lives and interests across the globe.

Today I'm posting images gathered over the last few months. Photos I've taken of places I've been, moments captured, my artwork and a few vintage images that appeal to me.


We had such a lush Spring it was beautiful and so green


The little waterfall I've walked to many times


Some days the colours are just gorgeous


This is such a South Australian scene


Silhouettes and night scenes are my favourite


Dry creek bed after flood has gone


Plate from my grandmother, the only thing I own from her, she died very young


pubs dancing, people, beer, music, wine


Scones and visitors in Spring



Creek day



The eating garden



Op shopped old bohemian



The final day at art school


more art school







natural spirit and textures




Sketches of art school scenes




homemade card destined for special friend




Some of my paintings from 2010




Love that hippy love!


Op shop found treasure






Drawn, painted, photographed then photoshopped in 2010


detail


Remnant I found at a beach near Sydney


Old Australian picture







Vintage bikes are a favourite thing of mine



From a day in my life


and another

Where I live we have many koalas!

Hope you enjoyed this piece of my life and thanks for all your inspiring and delicious blogs!

I'm Back and Spammed!

Back in the blogosphere.

This year I've been spending online time on FB and decided it was time to get back to the more thoughtful stuff of blogging. I miss reading blogs even more than I miss making them and I think I'll start by catching up looking at some of yours as well as searching out some news blogs :).

I hope life is treating my few blog contacts here well.

I checked into my blog here for the first time in months and find it's been spammed! About 40 spam comments from somewhere in Asia.....so I've done a spring clean and now I'm off to read......




"Ephemeral", monotype print, by Late Blooming Bohemian
(Tess M) SOLD


P.S. I also wanted to add that the time and date of my postings here is always wrong since I'm Australian and 12+ hours ahead....must work out how to change the time/date thing here! In this case it's Sunday 5th September and 2.29pm not Saturday!