Hello dear readers, and welcome to my New Year edition. Another year has come and gone. I can't believe it is already 2025! It seems like only yesterday we were celebrating the dawn of 2000. Over those 25 years we retired, we lost our parents, our eldest son got married, and had two children, the eldest of whom has just completed Year 12 and going to university next year! How did that happen so fast? At times I feel that time is running out, and there is still so much to do!
For today I am going to share a few highlights from 2024. If you would like to read the posts just click on the links to go back and take a look.
In January we travelled to Albany on our south coast so I could attend an Advanced Botanical Eco-printing class with master printer Penny Jewell at Summer School. It doesn't look like I blogged about it, but I have blogged about eco-printing several times before. How far does the hand reach - The Peace Cloth (July 2019)
We attended the Chinese Lantern Festival for Chinese New Year and the Australia Day Fireworks.
In February we were in the safety boat & on-water control for a dragon boat regatta (a great opportunity to take photos from the water), took photos at a triathlon, and took photos at the South West Multi-cultural Festival - a truly wonderful cultural event with music, dance and food.
March was spent getting ready for a couple of art markets - The Tree Street Art Safari and the Dardanup Art Spectacular Art Trail
In April we watched our sons compete at the Australian Dragon Boat Championships in Perth, and I collected a photography prize at the Dardanup Art Spectacular, and had an enjoyable market weekend talking to lots of people.
In April we commemorated Anzac Day and made our annual autumn visit to the Balingup Golden Valley tree park.
Also in my April-May randoms I announced that my blog had been deemed worthy to be preserved by the National Library of Australia on their research site - Trove This was an unexpected and treasured honour and accolade for the work I have put into my blog which was selected as it was about Western Australia and written by a Western Australian author. And it was on a subject of social, political, cultural, religious, scientific or economic significance and relevance to Western Australia.
In May I was excited to photograph Spoonbills along the Leschenault Estuary for the first time.
Earlier in the year I was sorry to be told that the travel magazine, On The Road, which I had been writing for since 2010 was closing down. I was lucky to secure another small writing gig with Caravan World magazine. My first Side Tracks article for Caravan World was published in June. Beringbooding Rock water tank
In September we went on a 3 week wildflower, midwest and goldfields trundle. The links are in my intro post here - Wildflowers, midwest, goldfields trundle - intro. I still have one more post to share with you!
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| My Gold awards for 2024 |
In December we had a couple of nights in our capital city, Perth, and visited the amazing Rone Exhibition at the Art Gallery of WA, and also visited the Museum and the botanic gardens at Kings Park.
In the last few weeks I have had friends loose a loved one, so I think of them as they start the new year without them.
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| Hoya in my garden |
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