SCULPTURES AND A BIRTHDAY

Movies

Discovered more exciting ways to dazzle my audience after the collage blitz a few years ago - Google led the way with a wholly unasked for movie of Xmas Day.  It was actually quite good (apart from the naff music), based on all the photos taken on 25th December, so it set me thinking.  Have been testing idea out, but it took forever to upload my first one to insert into blog and before it had even finished it had gobbled up 1gb of my monthly 8gb of phone data!  And that was just 20 photos thrown together.  So now will just insert a link to the movies - live and learn.  Always a little late to the IT party - one day I might post on Facebook, or Twitter, or even Tinder - that one sounds like fun!

Favourite ever garden 

We stayed here at Lakeside Retreat 2 years ago, see 14 Feb 2017 on right for details of owners etc.(no apologies for repeating photos), and although we only had 2 nights in Pemberton, it was enough to check out the birds, sculptures and garden again.  Even more development since last time, so check out the movie (first, but not the last, of my new found talents!) here

 

 

The splendid wrens are just so - splendid!

Another repeat

This time it was a paid-for walk in the bush, on a sculpture trail in a little place called Northcliffe and again you can see previous pics on link dated 8th February 2016. A lot the same but some new ones including these

They were created by Kim Perrier and called Rising From the Ashes. "He spent around 12 months working with the Northcliffe community to create a huge body of 43 sculptures, featured along the trail of Understory. This work, called Rising From the Ashes, commemorates the biggest bushfire in recent WA history. The February 2015 Northcliffe bushfires swept through around 100,000 hectares destroying and damaging habitats, farms, forests, and plantations, and causing significant property loss."

Some of the other sculptures were

Graham's birthday

We stopped at the Sculpture trail on a day's travel to the Lakeside Retreat, above, from our Airbnb in the Porongurups (see 25th February 2017) on Graham's birthday - these were some of the things we did for the rest of the day

Thanks to all those who sent him good wishes on the day (another great tennis card of the e-type from Bill and Val - we have been exchanging tennis themed cards for around 20 years or more) and especially Lin for remembering to give him a card (see breakfast photo) in November!!!

And then as a surprise present I bought him this bench

Tricky to get in the suitcase, but am sure we will manage.