Walking songs - walk paths near by to where I live

Hi everyone. I hope you and yours are dong well. So the Tree Street Art Safari is done and dusted, and now I am in preparation for the Dardanup Art Trail on the 20-21 April. I wish to thank my wonderful hosts in Banksia Street for the Tree Street Art Safari where I have been exhibiting for 4 or 5 years. They are amazing and so generous to me. Thankyou! Thankyou also to everyone who visited or made purchases. It was lovely to meet and chat with you. Thankyou everyone.

If you missed it you can see some of what I do here - Doodling on Botanical Contact Eco Prints. I also do photography and lots of other things! 

It is early Autumn here and we are desperate for rain. It hasn't rained in our area since last September or October. It surely must come soon. Trees, some hundreds of years old, are dyeing - they are calling it "forest collapse". An ecological disaster. So awful. 

In between getting ready for these two art trails we try to go for a walk most mornings. We are lucky to have some great walks near where we live. Here are just a few. There are others we choose depending on the weather, and a few a little further away especially during wildflower season. Summer walk in Manea Reserve. You can read more by going to the links to my past posts. 

You might even see a kangaroo! 

Pram friendly walking path, Millbridge

Paperbark Cathedral Walk, Leschenault Estuary

A walk by the water , Leschenault Inlet, Bunbury

Where the Pelicans Meet

On the radio a couple of weeks ago they were asking for suggestions of walking songs. There are hundreds. Here are just a few, and down below a list I found on the net. 

Walk Right Back - Anne Murray

I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash

Walking on Sunshine - Katrina and the Waves

Moon Walk - Michael Jackson

These boots are made for walking - Nancy Sinatra

Walk Like an Egypian - The Bangles

Walk Right In - The Rooftop Singers

You'll Never Walk Alone - Gerry and the Pacemakers 

The Walk - The Beatles 

spinditty - 100 best songs with walk in the title

And a little summer sunset stroll down by the Estuary about 1 kilometre from home. We are so lucky to have so many walks close to home. 

Thank you so much for stopping by. I value your comments and look forward to hearing from you. I will try to visit your blogs in return. Do you have some favourite walks close to home? Perhaps you would like to tell us about them in your comments. 

Have a wonderful week. 
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Doodling on botanical-contact-eco-prints

 Hi everyone, looks like I have been missing in action. My last post on 25th February said where did February go? and I am thinking March is going much the same way. 

But I do have an excuse, I am getting ready for the annual Treet Street Art Safari on this coming Saturday 23 March. This is something I have been involved with for a few years now, at the home of my wonderful host Maggie, in Banksia Street. It is a great opportunity to get my art out in public and hopefully make a few sales. 

One of the things I have been doing this year is doodling on my eco-prints. I call it tizzying up! I decided some of my greeting card prints needed something to lift them. Below you can see originals on the left - papers printed with cosmos flowers - and the tizzied up on the right - overdrawn with Posca ink pens - a fast drying water-based pigment ink. Comes in many colours and thicknesses. I have been using the 0.7mm white mainly or the black or gold. I don't plan too much, just pick up the pen and doodle! 

Some more over cosmos flowers

And over coreopsis flowers on the left and some eucalypt leaves on the right. 

and some eucalypt leaf prints

I have been overdrawing on and off for a few years, and I have heard of other ecoprinters doing this also. Originally I was using caligraphy type ink pens, but I love these Posca pens. And no I am not an agent....

I also eco-print on scarves, upcycled tops and tote bags ..... 

eucalypt loves wool - this is karri leaves from our great southern region

If I was younger and slimmer I would be wearing the little (previously white) denim skirt printed with eucalypt leaves! 

Still a few things I need to do so I must get back to it - only 4 days till the market day! 

The art of botanical ecoprinting is an experimental process. Also learning, trying new approaches. You might also like:

Art market in the garden - 2023

The Art of Botanical eco-printing on paper - 2021

Thank you so much for stopping by. I value your comments and look forward to hearing from you. I will try to visit your blogs in return. Have a wonderful week. 
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Where did February Go?

Oh my goodness - February has gone in a blur - where did it go? Here today, gone tomorrow. I hope you and yours are doing well in these troubled times. 

It looks like I have been busy during February. 

3rd February my husband and I were in the on-water control boat during an afternoon dragon boat regatta for our club, the Forza Dragon Boat Club, in Bunbury. The event was well supported by clubs from Perth, Mandurah and Albany. It is a colourful spectical on the water and land. 

That is Forza in the blue and red in the second photo below here. One of my sons is second from the front in this boat. 

It is always a good opportunity for me to take photos

Last weekend my photography group assisted the Bunbury Triathlon Club by taking photos for their big annual competition. I was located on the bike leg  along the beach. It was a great opportunity to practise panning. I was glad for the cloud cover on the day. 

I've previously blogged about Taking photos at a sports event - but when I photographed the dragon boat regatta and the bike riders at the Triathlon this year I put my camera in Sports mode - it worked well for me. 

Late yesterday afternoon I was again with my photography group taking photos for the South West Multicultural Festival. I always enjoy going along to this, enjoying the cultural displays, dances and food. It is always a great evening. In the past I have danced at this with Sol y Sombra Spanish Dance Company. This year our Principal, Nicole, performed solo. She is always a joy to watch. 

Sol y Sombra have been a part of the Bunbury dance scene for over 33 years. 

Below clockwise from top left you can see an elder playing the didgeridoo as part of the Welcome to Country, two Indonesian dancers, a dancer from Brazil (their costumes were amazing, Filipino Folk Singers, Ukranian Cossack Dancers, and an Indian Dancer. 

The Ukranian Cossack Dancers were amazing. The girls were so pretty in their costumes, flowers and ribbons, and my goodness these guys are fit, agile, energetic, and fantastic to watch. They look like they are having a LOT of fun! 

In between all this I have been getting things done in preparation for my next market at the Tree Street Art Safari in March, and also working on my photo book from our nine week Queensland trip last year. It was my plan to get it done over the summer - and I have! I sent it off to the printers this week. 

That's it from me today. I pray for those in war torn countries around the world and hope the leaders can sit down and find a way to peace. 

You might also like: 

Multiculutral Festival 2020

Dragon Boat Festival 2022

Taking photos at a sports event

Sol y Sombra 30th Anniversary

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Australia Day - I am, You Are, We Are Australian

Friday 26 January was Australia Day -

Australia Day is the official national day of Australia. Observed annually on 26 January, it marks the 1788 landing of the First Fleet and the raising of the Union Flag of Great Britain by Captain Arthur Phillip at Sydney Cove, a small bay on the southern shore of Sydney Harbour.

In present-day Australia, the government Australia Day Council organises events that seeks to recognise the contributions of Australians to the nation, while also encouraging reflection on past wrongs including towards Indigenous Australians and also giving respect and celebrating the diversity and achievements of Australian society past and present                 wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_Day

There has been a great deal of controvosy, discussions and protests over the last few years about whether we should be celebrating on 26 January - the indiginous people of Australia claiming it to be "Ïnvasion Day" and wanting to change the date.

I won't buy into this debate here. I am proudly fourth generation Australian on both sides of my family - both early free settlers and convicts, those who fought and died for their country, battled the Depression, cleared and farmed the land, worked hard for what we have. No matter what colour, religion, or nationality we are, we are all an important part of what makes this country a wonderful place to live. We should celenrate this.

Instead I will share of song with you, which I think says it all.

Aunt Stella Floyed, possibly at the time of Federation

I am, you are, we are all Australian.

I AM AUSTRALIAN.

(1987 - by Bruce Woodley, The Seekers and Dobe Newton, The Bushwackers)

I came from the dreamtime from the dusty red soil plains I am the ancient heart, the keeper of the flame I stood upon the rocky shore I watched the tall ships come For forty thousand years I'd been the first Australian.

I came upon the prison ship bowed down by iron chains.

.I cleared the land, endured the lash

and waited for the rains.

Great Great Grandfather James Fairhead
arrived Australia 1853

I'm a settler. I'm a farmer's wife on a dry and barren run,

A convict then a free man

I became Australian.

I'm the daughter of a digger

who sought the mother lode, The girl became a woman on the long and dusty road

I'm a child of the depression

I saw the good times come I'm a bushy, I'm a battler I am Australian

Great Grandmother & Grandfather Floyed 1887
Great Grandfather born in Australia 1858 

[chorus] We are one, but we are many And from all the lands on earth we come

We share a dream and sing with one voice: I am, you are, we are Australian I am, you are, we are Australian.

I'm a teller of the stories

I'm a singer of the songs

I am Albert Namatjira I paint the ghostly gums

Great Uncle Norman Clayden, died Gallipoli, WW1

I am Clancy on his horse I'm Ned Kelly on the run I'm the one who waltzed Matilda I am Australian.

I'm the hot wind from the desert I'm the black soil of the plains I'm the mountains and the valleys I'm the drought and flooding rains.

I am the rock, I am the sky The rivers when they run The spirit of this great land I am Australian

[chorus] We are one, but we are many And from all the lands on earth we come We share a dream and sing with one voice: I am, you are, we are Australian I am, you are, we are Australian.

And below from You Tube an inspiring rendition of this song.

You might also like -

Celebrating Australia Day & Waltzing Matilda - 2014

Australia Day on the Beach - 2015

Australia Day - How Australian Are You? - 2017

How to speak like an Australian on Australia Day - 2020

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