Beaumaris yatch club

I did this on sunday morning after a lovely walk from the house through leafy back streets and down over the sandhill, and past some pretty expensive and exclusive houses. The yatch club is only minutes away and being Sunday morning was a hive of activity with children and boats so i had a lovely time sitting on a rock and sketching as well as taking some photos. I have to say there was also a huge number of dogs and dog walkers.
I may put a few more of these up as they are so different to my boring daily walks,and now really battling the flies. No rain and not much prospect of rain and the dams so John tells me are emptying fast again.
I am still feeling not 100% right and am so glad I managed to get home without being ill again, unfortunatly I am not working at full capacity and the house when I got home needs some help!
The washing is all done but boy I dont know what one fellow and a cat can do to make quite such a mess.

Wills favorite picture

I am home from my visit to Melbourne, blotted my copybook by being ill on the Sunday and feeling a bit precious ever since.
The house is in complete uproar over there as the builders etc etc were in doing bathrooms and painting and the kitchen cupboards and there was mess and dirt until they left on Friday night and we could have a relatively clean house for the week end. I was ok as I was in the office up the back.
This was looking at the back door and being selective in what I drew! It was pleasant under the pergola but most of the rest of the garden, apart from the pool resembled a builders dump.
It will look fantastic when it is finished tho.

Gum tree

I made a bit of a mess of its leaves but the trunk isnt too bad. Julie suggested i looked at things with different shadows etc, I have been meaning to look harder at our gums, perhaps there is another series coming up but they are harder to do than you think.
I will be away from early tomorrow to late on Monday as i will be in Melbourne, think I said that last night, not sure, visiting the family, I never seem to have much time to do things when I am there so hope a few sketches will surface.
I am a bit worried as my back after yesterday's physio is killing me and has been all day, it is a touchy part of me and the thought of dragging my suitcase and stuff around to where I meet my DIL is worrying me a bit. Sounds as if I will not get to the quilt show tomorrow, will have to be Friday.

Adelaide

Blogger wouldnt let me in this morning, or else we were having a few hiccups with the computers. We were in Adelaide yesterday. This was done at a friends house while I sheltered from the heat looking to her outside seating area, the weather forecast was wrong and instead of a cooler change it was stinking hot, still hot when we left around 9.30.
John had a couple of meetings and then was giving a talk about the old family home at Stonyfell for the Burnside historical Society. As I was manning the laptop and doing the photos to go with his speach there was no time for sketching.
I did see my mother and bought some stuff for the course I am doing in April then waited over an hour for John to finish his meeting and was wilting in the heat even if I did find a shady tree.
Ok for those who live and work in Adelaide, not for those of us who have to make a day of it. I feel totally not with it today.
Have just finished reading 'The First Lady' by Michael Dobbs, a good read and insight in to all the nasty bits of politics. I can draw parralells here in both State and Federal.

Wright Island

After a dreadful night and morning we finally got the cool change and the temperature dropped to 21 degrees, just makes you want to sleep! Any way in the late afternoon we went in for a walk along the road at the base of the Bluff to the jetty where we used to dive in the early days, then walked back and had a coffee.
I did a quick sketch of Wright Island, another diving haunt, from the new deck of the place we used to like but now its gone all modern I am not so sure about. Coffee could have been better too, but the view is stunning.

Dark blue Plumbago

I have several of the ordinary blue plumbago and ages ago I bought this much nicer darker blue one and this year it has really taken off.
It is so hot that walking is almost out of the question so I have been doing my exercises inside instead.
I hope we may go into Victor for a walk this evening but as it was between 42 and 44 degrees in there a bit after 3 this afternoon, it may not be all that pleasant.
Hence the blue plumbago as I had to paint something and these are on the wrought iron on the front terrace. I suppose I could have said I had walked and no one but I would have known.

Wet the beds

These little dandelions, daisies, what ever, we call wet the bed, and are not good if the ponies eat them as they develop some sort of pseudo string halt. I dont mind them if they are not near the ponies and there was a very cheerful collection of them by the dam in a damp place this morning when I went to do the feeds. I am hot and bothered and sticky and nasty at the moment as i have just come back from my walk, hot and steamy out there. tomorrow they are still forecasting 40. Oh heck its too hot and bothery.