Annie's Blog

a quick trip over to the gardens ...resulted in a LETTER for the BRENDA PHOTO CHALLENGE...(which appears at the end of this post)... as well as resulting in some very interesting photos of some interesting plants (there are also some sideways letters here for the challenge, above) Quite a different world over there.....Did you see the letter I found above...is it an N or a sideways Z? Visit the other contributors in the Brenda Photo Challenge by clicking on the icon in the sidebar .

I went out to another wonderful quilt show on the weekend. Is it me, or is it the building...I'll have to go out and check, but it always looks like it is on a lean when I take a photo of that building!! and of course I wasn't disappointed more about the bicycle later... the quilt above was done by a friend for her friend overseas...made especially with materials depicting Australian native plants. the quilt above I thought was quite spectacular, I loved the random placements of flowers that were freestanding and of course the one above was interesting too...based on the statue of liberty in fact there were very many that I enjoyed... especially this one..... I just love these flowers... but then strelitzia always grab me just amazing some of these works...all of them... back to the bicycles....again there was a group WHISPERS challenge where one person in a group of six quilters was shown a photo (this year a photo of a bicycle in a garden)... then the others one by one see t...

I quite liked the raindrops on this bush the other day. It was lovely to get a little rain. It has become very dry again. Already. After all the floods we had earlier in the year.

at the Gallery of Modern Art the children had the opportunity to make some art of their own.. I enjoyed the little one's sense of simplicity and symmetry... is symmetry allowed in modern art? ;-) they all had great fun, and enjoyed the ability to take a photo and email it to themselves.. What fun!

We had a great morning out with the grandchildren visiting the local Gallery of Modern Art always something interesting...art in a sardine can quite a wonderful morning...especially with the special activities they put on for the children.

I arrived in Melbourne to be greeted by this lovely jar of protea in my room and left with a present, lucky me..and lots of memories of fun with the grandkids there was a lovely daphne at my sister's place...much prettier than the one at my place.. there were many beautiful native flowers at my sister's place as well as these orchids and this bromeliad and arrived home to this beautiful unusually variegated poinsettia at a friend's place.