I love murals and street art. If you like murals or have a mural you'd like to post, this meme is for you. Just follow the Linky steps below. Once you start looking you will find murals everywhere. The "Monday Mural" meme goes live on Monday at 12,01AM, Perth,Western Australian time. Be sure to link back to this blog and visit your fellow posters. Looking forward to your mural finds this week.
Thanks Sami
A simple blue and white mural - "Bird boy", mural painted by Jack Bromell in 2017 for the Emergence Creative Festival in Margaret River.
I love murals and street art. If you like murals or have a mural you'd like to post, this meme is for you. Just follow the Linky steps below. Once you start looking you will find murals everywhere. The "Monday Mural" meme goes live on Monday at 12,01AM, Perth,Western Australian time. Be sure to link back to this blog and visit your fellow posters. Looking forward to your mural finds this week.
Thanks Sami
Another great mural from Margaret River's main street - Bussell Highway.
It was painted in July 2020 by WA-based artist Jack Brommel in collaboration with southwest artists Sandra Hill and Ian Mutch, depicting the Forest Red-tailed Black Cockatoos native to the South-West.
Jack painted Marri tree branches (Corymbia calophylla)a species native to the South West, whose name derives from the local Noongar language, and the leaves and flowers complement the Red-Tailed Black Cockatoos and the Indigenous symbology painted by Sandra.
Sandra's design includes a red line on the corner of the building that runs from top to bottom symbolizing the blood line of family all the way back to the creation story of the Margaret River (place of Wooditch). The central brown circle depicts home country, Wadandi Boodjarra (Wadandi home country). The patterns in the middle circle are the traditional markings on our shields. The red circle symbolises old, ancient blood. The black line circle symbolises our community. The ochre dots on the outside symbolise the family clan groups.
Ian painted the Red-tailed black cockatoos, which can be found perched on marri branches feeding on nuts and flowers - an important food source for native bird species.
Remember this mural that I posted in February this year - another one with Red tailed black cockatoos, painted in the suburb of Subiaco (Perth) by Perth artist James Giddy?
Monday 1st - a public holiday (Easter Monday) and Jose and I decided it was time to fix up our garage.
We had bought new shelving and lots of plastic boxes to keep stuff inside... We threw lots of stuff out, others are in boxes to be donated... but still lots to do!
No photo - it looked too messy to start with and not yet finished 😉. Instead, you get a photo of the sunset taken from our front garden across the park on the other side of the road.
Can you see a couple of magpies across the park?
Friday 5th - Codfish night at the Portuguese club. Took my neighbour Maria, who really enjoyed the dinner and atmosphere.
Saturday 6th - Joined 2 other couples to go to the French Movie Festival to watch "The President's Wife" with Catherine Deneuve.
At the age of 80 she's still a classy lady who in this film plays the wife of French President Jacques Chirac - "Bernadette"- a supportive wife who finds herself brushed off by the French as being cold, and old-fashioned. With the help of her chief of staff, they embark on a campaign to restore her reputation and assertiveness as the country's first lady.
It was a great movie, a comedy based on real facts, and I found yourself laughing a lot and empathising with Bernadette, while she transforms herself from a lonely figure to one who most French admired and respected.
Friday 12th - after 33 dry days, the spell was broken with unexpected showers and thunderstorms, and some of Perth's northern suburbs copped 100mm of rain in one-hour, inundating roads, and a shopping centre even lost part of its roof!
Luckily, we didn't that much rain or chaos in the southern suburbs, in fact in my suburb we had about 10 min of light showers.
Friday 19th - When Jose arrived from work, he suggested we go out to dinner in Victoria Park, a hip suburb with a main street full of restaurants and pubs. We chose an Indian restaurant that had good reviews - Colaba Social.
The food was indeed very good, service also very good. When we left, we decided on an ice-cream for dessert. Just next to the restaurant was a frozen yogurt shop that had a queue of dozens! How good could it be? No queues for me!!
Closer to where we parked we came across "Donut Worry" where they sold ice-creams and it only had 3 or 4 waiting.
An empty plate of Chicken Korma, the huge queue for frozen yogurt, "Donut worry".
Monday 22nd - I attended a "Decluttering workshop" at Morley library, in the northern suburbs. It was quite interesting and inspiring, and I learned where to recycle or donate a lot of things we don't really want to throw out.
Some of the books on display at the workshop
Thursday 25th - Anzac Day. I don't usually work Friday, but Jose took a day's leave, and we joined 2 other couples and went camping before the rainy weather starts.
We drove about 3 hours south of Perth, to "Big Valley Campsite" in Rosa Glen, less than 15 minutes drive from the lovely town of Margaret River.
Sunset when we arrived, full moon behind fluffy clouds, our 3 campers in a row (ours is the blue one)
The campsite is a working sheep farm and just before 4Pm every day the owner would come to one of the paddocks and about 25 hand reared sheep would come to the fence and be fed by the camping guests.
Those sheep had been hand-reared because either the ewes had rejected them, or they were born with a defect (one had only 1 ear, another had skew legs).
The sheep coming to their 4pm feed - Jose feeding a few of them
They had about 600 sheep in another paddock, but they didn't associate 4pm with food, so they didn't come close to the fence.
There were chickens and guinea fowl roaming around and 2 roosters that would wake us up at 5am! In an enclosed yard they had lots of guinea pigs and lots of wild birds would visit too, specially close to the kitchen area - magpies, ring-necked parrots, crows, magpie-larks...
Guinea pigs, guinea fowl, chicken, rooster, black chicken with 6 chicks, Australian ring-neck parrots
The site had 2 fully equipped kitchen/eating areas, toilets and showers.
There were bins to collect left over food, veggies and fruit for the chickens, but I'm sure they got well fed just roaming around the caravans.
Sign for what chickens can eat - the toilets/showers and kitchen block
Saturday 27th - the camping site had a food van, wine tasting and sale and music for the campers from 5Pm. We sat around for a while, and it was quite a nice evening. The only thing missing was a campfire, but fires were still banned at that time of the year due to fire risk.
Food and music in the camping site
During the day we visited Margaret River - lots of new murals, the nearby beaches of Gnarabup, where we rented an Airbnb a few years ago when my daughter's in-laws came to visit.
Gnarabup beach, The White Elephant Cafe in front of the beach
This beautiful old car (an MG) was parked in the Gnarabup beach car park. Jose was excited as it was one of his dream cars in his youth.
We also visited nearbyCowaramup, named by the Wardandi people and meaning 'Place of the Cowara', a purple crowned lorikeet that once inhabited the area.
Also known as "Cow town" as many people think the name has to do with the 42 life-sized fibreglass cows and calves, scattered around the once sleepy town, which were installed in 2014.
Nowadays the cows have made the town famous for those visiting "down south", and it is abuzz with people strolling the streets and posing for photos with the cows, visiting the wineries, gourmet food merchant, chocolate shop, ice-creamery, gift shop... We visited Millers Ice-creamery :)
A few of the cows at Cowaramup
Sunday 28th - We returned home in the morning and stopped in the small town of Bunbury where I wanted to visit an outstanding statue that was installed in the foreshore at Koombana Bay in February 2019.
The metal statue -"Wardandi Boodja"- of an Aboriginal man stands five metres high and 6 metres wide and is the work of Western Australian regional artists Nicole and Alex Mickle.
Dolphin Discovery centre and Bunbury Beach
We then drove home stopping in the suburb of Baldivis to have a late lunch at Nandos Chicken.
Monday 29th - I've been going for Occupational Therapy at Hand Works for the Tenosynovitis (inflammation of the fluid-filled synovium within thetendon sheath) on the middle finger of my right hand, and I'm now wearing a splint and doing gentle bending exercises. This has been going on for about 2 months, and with the splint I don't seem to feel as much pain.
I received a box of goodies from a good friend in Portugal. Every Easter she sends sugar covered almonds and chocolate almonds, plus pens and coin purses.
Personalized Car Number plates seen in April - some better than others!
I love murals and street art. If you like murals or have a mural you'd like to post, this meme is for you. Just follow the Linky steps below. Once you start looking you will find murals everywhere. The "Monday Mural" meme goes live on Monday at 12,01AM, Perth,Western Australian time. Be sure to link back to this blog and visit your fellow posters. Looking forward to your mural finds this week.
Thanks Sami
Another cute dog painted at Drift Cafe, at 72 Wilmott Avenue in Margaret River, where Jose sat with a coffee while I went in search of murals in the main street 😀.
Painted by Sharon Hinchcliffe, from Arli Designs, inspired by an awesome little Italian greyhound known as “Mo”.
And today 13th of May my parents celebrate their Sapphire Anniversary.
Yes, 65 years of marriage!
Happy anniversary Mommy and Daddy and thank you for being an example of long-lasting love and friendship to the generations that follow.
I love murals and street art. If you like murals or have a mural you'd like to post, this meme is for you. Just follow the Linky steps below. Once you start looking you will find murals everywhere. The "Monday Mural" meme goes live on Monday at 12,01AM, Perth,Western Australian time. Be sure to link back to this blog and visit your fellow posters. Looking forward to your mural finds this week.
Thanks Sami
We went camping for 4 days during the Anzac weekend (25th to 28th April) to a sheep farm near Margaret River (3h south of Perth) - Big Valley Campsite - which we loved.
We've been to Margaret River quite a few times by ourselves and with all our overseas visitors - it's a beautiful coastal country town, home to about 200 wine producers, cheese makers, timber forests, underground caves, surfing beaches... but there's always something new to discover at every visit.
This time I saw quite a few murals along the main road and then walking around I found more murals in the streets behind. So during this visit, including a few murals in the neighbouring town of Cowaramup I discovered about 15 new murals, which I'll be posting in the next few weeks.
Both these murals were painted by Perth artist known asHope Perth (birth name Brendan) in Margaret River. "Jade" a Border Collie was painted in March 2021 and be can be seen on the main road - Bussell Highway.
Border Collie
This box was next to the dog mural, as can be seen above, no artist name
This next mural painted by the same artist in March 2022 can be found on Fearn Avenue in Margaret River. "Portrait of Valerie" - recognizes Margaret River's farming history and the great women of the community who have provided for us.
