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Monthly Archives: October 2017

Driftwood tree update

30 Monday Oct 2017

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art, trees

Our driftwood tree has evolved again. I enjoyed making these flowers, adding the paper daisies that I posted about two days ago.IMG_7107IMG_7099IMG_7173IMG_7175

Weekly Photo Challenge – Rounded

29 Sunday Oct 2017

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Some weeks the photo theme just gets into your head. I am noticing round and curved things everywhere I look, this weekend.

Here are some random rounded things.IMG_6167IMG_6974IMG_6838IMG_6971IMG_6650IMG_7005 (2)IMG_6959

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Paper Daisies

28 Saturday Oct 2017

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flowers, macro

There are lots of beautiful Australian native flowers. Paper daisies are now one of my favourites. I saw various colours at the gardens I visited on Thursday and I bought a bunch home. IMG_7037 (1)

They were a perfect subject for some macro photos.IMG_7085-2IMG_7086-2IMG_7087-2IMG_7088-2

Bunnykins

27 Friday Oct 2017

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art, time

I had a Bunnykins plate, bowl, cup and saucer and egg cup, when I was a baby.IMG_9675

Our daughter had some of the items which had survived. We added to the set, a money box, a different bowl.IMG_9661

Now our grandson has the collection, plus a new mug.IMG_9686

I posted one of these pictures in my Photo a Day group and someone asked if the plate had the controversial trademark image?….. Oh!…… yes they all do, except the mug purchased this year.IMG_9678

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These round items fit this weeks photo challenge Rounded

Weekly Photo Challenge – Rounded

26 Thursday Oct 2017

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flowers, Tasmania

Nature is rounded, full of curves.

The landscape, the clouds, trees, bushes, flowers, leaves, petals.IMG_6912

I visited Inverawe Native Gardens today and spent a delightful couple of hours wandering along paths, stopping to admire the flowers, noticing the varying scents, observing birds and pademelons and little ghekkos.

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The owners are welcoming and informative, sharing their enthusiasm for the garden they have designed and planted since retiring to Tasmania in 2001, from Sydney. I relaxed with a cup of tea and home made cakes and appreciated the view. IMG_6915

There are information signs and labels, about the plants, the history of the place, the early explorers and botanists from Europe. There are also sculptures and poems written by the owners, dotted amounts the foliage.

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“This garden is designed to please the eye and soothe the soul, but also to sit easily on our ancient, fragile landscape, a garden that works with the environment, not against it.”
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Wordless Wednesday – Wisteria

25 Wednesday Oct 2017

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flowers

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Weekly Photo Challenge – Glow

22 Sunday Oct 2017

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photos

The glow of electric lights in Victorian buildings with their high detailed ceilings.IMG_4124IMG_6318IMG_6319IMG_0094IMG_2320 (1)

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Weekly Photo Challenge – Glow

21 Saturday Oct 2017

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Hobart, walks

I’ve chosen to share the glow of sunlight on water. I ventured to a new part of Hobart this morning and walked along the New Town Rivulet Track. The light played on the rivulet as I took photos.IMG_6785IMG_6779 (1)IMG_6813IMG_6816IMG_6825

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Wordless Wednesday

18 Wednesday Oct 2017

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art, history

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Posted by RuthsArc | Filed under creativity, photography

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“Footsteps”

16 Monday Oct 2017

Posted by RuthsArc in creativity, remembering / musing

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art, history, Tasmania

A new bronze sculpture was unveiled in Hobart on Saturday.

Between 1803 and 1853, nearly 13,000 female convicts arrived in Tasmania, bringing with them about 2,500 children, many of whom were born on the long sea voyage from the UK.

Three life size women and a young boy represent those early Europeans who arrived on this exact spot in Hobart.IMG_6506

Each tells a different story of the hardship of life for women and children in the penal colony.

The first is of a young woman accused of stealing cattle, the second of an Irish famine victim, the third a housemaid who fell pregnant and the fourth a young boy separated from his mother.

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The plinths list the ships that arrived over one hundred and fifty years ago. Others list the names of the women who arrived with their children. IMG_6507IMG_6508

We saw the sculptures earlier in the day, whilst still under wraps. They were unveiled by Tasmania’s Govenor, Kate Warner, and the Irish President, Michael Higgins.

… “These sculptures remind us also of the suffering of the migrants of our times…. that the trauma of displacement and forced exile, for many reasons, are not experiences confined to our past but are the lived experiences of millions today around the world, including many who now call Australia home.”

These sculptures were created by Irish artist, Rowan Gillespie, modelled by descendants of Tasmania’s convicts. IMG_6372

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