A Blast from the Past!!

 I used to walk down at Darebin Parklands a lot with our previous dog. We haven't been recently because our present dog hasn't had a lot of off-lead walking. But we took her there recently - we are having quite warm weather at present, seemingly later than usual. So we are still needing to wary of snakes. 

I was amazed to see the cliff face looking so different from previous years. I'll have to find photos to compare the colours. 

And I have a tapestry based on the rocks that is quite purplish. No purple visible today!!

I also have a small tapestry based on a photo of a branch of a tree - it is not looking very inspiring now.

This has an enormous dead branch! Don't think it is the one I used as inspiration but I suppose it may have grown a lot in the intervening years. It is so long ago that I can't find any images since my proper computer died. All I could find was this link to my own blog. 

I also have a fabric collage I did from photos of the mulberry trees - they are gone! There are some small ones planted but of a different type. Actually, the link I found shows the trees not looking that much better - but they are deciduous and it was winter. They weren't so dead!

We have not had much rain for quite a few months now, it is drought-like. I read an article in the newspaper this last week, saying that the government doesn't declare drought conditions now. I didn't really understand why - but we are in a drought around here.