Aussie Bush Paintings ONLY TWO A DAY

The QLD Floods have been the worst ever – 75% of the state was declared a disaster zone – as Price Charles equated it “the size of France and Germany combined!”

Scholarship to Tangka Art Centre for a young person in Shangri-La in China. Shangri-La is near to the Tibetan border and was renamed by the Chinese government, previously known as Zhongdian.

I did chew on grass roots, that tasted like blood. There were also onion bulb roots on some of the wild grasses and meringue mushrooms that turned brown with age into stink bombs when stomped on. The…

spot on quote from English Sculptor Anthony Gormley, which any artist would love to use as a mantra, I know I do now and it is embedded in the grey matter.

for no matter what old Banjo wrote those blokes are all here still
and will be here as long as this mount lasts!

gotta get there quick
dodging dangers hidden dangers
need the doctor Emma’s sick

and the spirits of the High Plains are calling out to me
and the ghosts of those before are helping me to see

I remember the trees flashing by as the wind whistled in my ears and I daren’t breathe in case it all vanished! That one run of freedom that few minutes of exhilaration will live in my heart forever!

Happily I will labour on
with the dream there in my sight
The crunch of the summer dryness
brings dreams in the hazy heat

And let the stream gurgle past
trickling through roots and rocks
and I will dance ….

We hunt for old stone chimney pots
and the tell tale cotton palms
shading the entrance of a once stately home
and the history safe from harm

A message pretending to be from the Tax Office and Kevin Rudd suggests that
“If you spend that money at Kmart, all the money will go to China.
If you spend it on petrol it will go to the Arabs.
If you p…

I dragged them out and up there and then I had to drag them back home again. Their world of convenience forgotten for the beauty and true life values of the High Country. I am so glad we went!

This piece is written by Robert Elliot.“The latest report today estimates that tens of millions, if not 100 million, animals and birds have been killed directly or will die in coming months due…

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Look how green was the valley
stretching up into the blue
the fresh eucalyptus filled air
giving it’s watercolour hue

She would call my name softly like the sighing of the wind
and I would turn to find nobody there
With tears on my cheeks I would stumble sadly back
away from the river of my dreams

COME ONE COME ALL !!!!!
COME SEE THE NEWEST OF NEW !!!