I: Bodalla Gallery: lotuses and birds One of the beauties of such a local gallery is being able to pop in a number of times to revisit and savour – and to re-evaluate. The first time I saw Stuart Whitelaw’s Lotus exhibition I wasn’t impressed. I looked cursorily, liked the idea of an exhibition devoted […]
Walking around home: October (Part 2)
I: Potato Point beach: morning and evening of the same day Two aging bodies need a level, lowish-tide walking surface. Around here at the moment heavy seas have created on many beaches an uncomfortable slant. My home beach is still relatively flat. So it’s there we go from the bush block on a Saturday. The […]
Walking around home: October, part 1
I: Potato Point beach Does it never finish yielding treasures, this beach of mine? To start with, a cattle dog, a white fluffy dog and a greyhound. Their human, noticing my delighted smile, says “They’re a weird mob, eh?” The creek is now dry as far as the bridge. We walk across sand where once […]
Eurobodalla beaches: Nangudga
Land-locked lake … dividing reef … spikey silhouettes … gallery of lichen … mélange … Liesegang rings … chert … pinnacle … extensive shell midden You never visit the same beach twice. It all depends on the tides; what the seas have been up to since you last visited; the weather; the sky; the receptivity […]
Eurobodalla Beaches: Rosedale
At this beach, an offshore island; a creek flowing into the sea (dry at the time of my visit); boatsheds and boats pulled up against the dunes; a discreet settlement in the bush; rocks with striped patterns in grey, orange and blue Bagging Eurobodalla Beaches has been dragging the chain a bit recently. Not any […]
Glimpses 2
Newcastle Blacktown: sisters Bodalla: friends (Photos by Meg Switzer) Bodalla: Embroiderers’ exhibition Bodalla history
RegularRandom: 5 minutes with Nina
Nina is a splendid cat. As a kitten she was callously chucked over the fence of the Newcastle Botanical Gardens, rescued, and brought home to my friend by a caring volunteer. She made a beeline for an accommodating lap. Nineteen years later, the lap is still accommodating, and so is the lounge and the bed. […]
