My Bright Field

When I first retired I decided to finish some old embroideries which had been languishing unfinished for about 20 years.  After completing the embroidery they then went on to languish a further four years because I had to do the lace edging.  My Mum always used to do that bit for me.   Eventually I decided it was time I learned how to crotchet but I found it very difficult to do with fine thread (it's easy enough with wool).  When I sent my sister a photo of the finished piece, she congratulated me on trying but reckoned it looked like our blind Nana had done it -- I agree.  So for the second piece I reverted to tatting which I do know how to do properly   Ah, that’s much better.

  You will be beginning to think I spend my days being a tourist!  This week we went to another exhibition, the block buster Egyptian exhibition currently at the Australian Museum in Sydney.  There were many ancient and wonderful things displayed in moody dark rooms with great explanatory audio visuals. While man is clever, I think nature is even more wondrous, check out these butterflies from the museum's public galleries.

While in the city this week we went to the Kandinsky exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW.  I really enjoyed it.

This week we were back at home in Kandos.  When I dropped by the post office to pick up the mail I took this snap of the garden in our main street. It's looking really pretty right now. I appreciate the work the council does to create and maintain the public spaces, they give a town pride. Here is the other direction down the main street.  Just in case you are worried, there is a walkway across the garden, I wasn't tramping on the flowers to stand in the middle of it.

 It was a city week for us last week with not much going on. We took a little outing to Darling Harbour.

  After the beautiful spring flush of roses the next job is deadheading so more flowers will come back to replace them.  I had to chop of hundreds and hundreds of them, quite a job. The red ones along the path flower later than the rest so are still looking good.