Sunday Best - Washington HD Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x3h6-92NGA

or for Megan Washington playing and singing this track live go to

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diQpVCFqvKo

August at the Art Gallery of NSW

Brothers in arms
Lyric Poetry

Del Kathryn Barton - come of things - 2010

Warren Hastings 1732-1818 East India Company executive

Children's nepalese garment - hand woven and stitched

Shahzia Sikander (Pakistan) b. 1969 - The illustrated page (edition 2)

Tourist souvenirs - The Taj Mahal - Mumtaz Mahal and Shah Jahan

Golden Summer by John Olsen

Hugh McRae Australian Poet 1876 - 1958

Ceiling in the atrium

The entrance to the galleries, sandstone facade meets travertine marble

Winter sun on exiting the NSW Art Gallery

Majestic Fig Tree in Art Gallery Road

Sunday's photo essay of the visit to the NSW Art Gallery to view The Indian Empire, multiple realities. With a view to other interesting things on the way. The more the world changes the more interesting Austalian perspectives in art become.

Hawkesbury Artists and Artisans Trail

Hawkesbury Information Bureau opposite Richmond Air Base
Crossing the Hawkesbury River on the Sackville Ferry

Judy Brownlie and Thomas

Judy Brownlie's studio

Hawkesbury River

Tom and I headed off to the Hawkesbury to see artists studios in Sackville just over the Sackville Ferry on the river bend. We were welcomed by Judy Brownlie at her studio next to the mudbrick home she had built with her husband Neil twenty years ago. Her paintings were filled with light and colour and were created from her travels and sketch books. She has been a painter for forty years and is well established with two shows a year.

K-2 Athletics Carnival

Transport to the Athletics Field by Sydney Buses Adoring parents

Nick after his 60m race

Decorative totem pole at the field

Nick is in Flinders House

The children in their houses

400m running race

Nick after the 400m race

Nick and his friend Philip

Nicholas and all the kids in K-2 at Cammeray Public School went to their Athletics Carnival. There was a 60m race and a 400m race. Nick participated in both, running along cheerfully. There were ball games and chasing games held for each year in the middle of the field. And there was a running race for parents which I went in. It was a fine late Winter's day with lots of sunshine.

Hung Parliament

The Hon. Julia Gillard Caretaker Prime Minister of Australia

The Hon Tony Abbott MP Leader of the Liberal Party

Australia has voted.


We have four Independents and a Greens member in the House of Representatives who will work with a monority government to be our new Government.


The Independents are Bob Katter, Tony Windsor, Rob Oakeshotte, and Mr Wilkie. Mr Bandt in the seat of Melbourne is our first Greens House of Reps member.





Neither Julia Gillard


or


Tony Abbott

as of 9.44am Sunday 22nd August 2010.
is the elected Prime Minister.




The nation waits, keeps counting votes and postal votes.





Eventually we will have the elected Prime Minister.





Presiding over a hung parliament and a new half Senate to come in next July.


There will be nine Greens Senators.





Maybe Bob Brown could be our next Prime Minister.

Katoomba Scenic World

Looking through the trees on the way back up
View across the Jamieson Valley with the Three Sisters

The majesty of the sandstone escarpments

Blue Mountains Ash trunks

Sunshine

Looking up through a tree stump

Tree ferns

Walkway

Forest floor

Nick in close up

Blue Mountains tree fern

Nick at the old mining hut

Cableway car descending

Cable car operator

Nick and I in the cableway

Scenic World at Katoomba is like visiting the Blue Mountains National Park in a zoo. I only say this because everything is made so beautifully easy for you to access the rainforest and view the Jamieson Valley and the Three Sisters with little physical effort. That being said you still get to walk under the trees breathe in the pristine air and feel one with nature. Nick and I had a great time wandering for an hour along the walkways and photographing the trees and tree ferns.

After completing our walk and ride the weather closed in over the mountains and it rained and we watched the clouds close in around us. Later this day we experienced some hail drops. Even nature cannot be tamed too easily.

We hope that you enjoyed looking at our pics.

Mount Victoria

Mount Victoria Park crater
The Mount Victoria Post Office

Jonquils
The Fire Station

Breakfast included

Lobby mirror

Federation tiles

Olde mirrors in sitting room

The Victoria and Albert Guesthouse

Mount Victoria home

Mount Victoria cottage

The Railway Museum open 2-5pm Saturday and Sunday

"On the Road with Nick"

Nick and I drove along the Bell's Line of Road up over Mount Tomah to Mount Victoria where were headed to the Victoria and Albert Guesthouse for the night. The plan was to pick up Tom from his walk (see below post) the following afternoon. On Saturday afternoon we walked around the village looking at the old wares shops and having afternoon tea at Deli n' More. There are lots of things to do in Mount Victoria besides shopping, historical buildings and explorers land marks. There is even a local cinema that shows recent flicks at 6pm on the Sat evening. While the rail line goes through two axis in the town the overnight noise was minimal. The Victoria and Albert Guesthouse proved to be a treasure trove of Federation architecture from 1914. Looking through the guestbook a recent guest was Liam 'Doc' Neeson
On Sunday we headed off to the tourist mecca of Katoomba to visit Scenic World. (see above post). Accommodation rating 2 and a half stars out of 5, good value.