Jean’s Hallloween disco dress up

along the Loddon river in Newstead, while Jean is partying.

different angles of the same old river redgum

dog rock

30 seconds of bird songs (sound on)

back

chapelle de sainte barbe

la roche tremblante

Huelgoat

Pont Aven – Chateau Belon (Riec)

Brigneau – Doellan – Baye

le jour aux magasins, le soir aux musées, et la tour Eiffel la nuit.

c’est joli, Paris.

Beaubourg la nuit.

doors

le marais

brasseries partout, justice nulle part

sous le ciel (bas et lourd) de Paris

big tree

acacias.

after the show.

Jean & Petrus talking about candle making

i believe a friend in the audience captured the performance as it happened – watch this space.

Sid

at the bridge hotel

thirteen

fourty six years old me and a happy yet so very cold birthday

some lovely early birthday presents

testing my new blog infrastructure on a cold winter night. can i upload pictures again.

Jean applied to the school for good and evil

striking and trying

glidings

another Jean school project

Jean’s school science exhibition

mullet is gone

a week in Jean’s football : end of season in Bendigo, and first goal for Castlemaine, on a very icy morning

how we all got out at the same time

MCG, june 15th

random picks, #3

new routines

random picks, #2.

last weekend

random picks, #1

last few weeks

we & the big tree

playing fortnite

“rien ne sert de courir…”

under great guidance a soccer team lost all four games, conceding eleven and scoring one.

with absolute coach support said soccer team kept spirit high, learnt about tactics, team structures and roles, and with courage kept trying to produce rapid and bold football moves.

everybody involved left tired and grinning.

taylor swift played her part, too.

Bendigo Amateur Soccer League under 12 team, with Jean on number 21.

loosing the battles, but winning the war.

NGV triennial exhibition, Melbourne

human beings standing tall

owning their roles as artists

calling out war, unjustified invasion and barbarism

intentionally and explicitly directing their craft towards a contribution to the war effort

using their incredible skills to share with a foreign audience the nature of their reality

lamenting grieving raging yet still finding space for hope and laughter and joy

making us feel all the feels

finding ways beyonds words to engage -though for one night at least I wished I understood ukrainian

three long heart felt ovations by the crowd, standing

witnessing all this and getting carried away were two birds who couldn’t hide their excitment of having survived the Melbourne traffic for a night away in the city.

Ukraine will win.

Dakha Brakha, Hamer Hall, Melbourne, March 11, 2024

olympic games women soccer qualifyer, marvel stadium, melbourne, february 28th.

54000 people and us witnessed the following scoreline

australia 10

uzbekistan 0

the acorn family Jean painted – mum dad and the three kids – litteraly, une famille de glands

a veggie garden full of green,and the buddlea, aka butterfly tree

back to school, 2024. the big change this year was for Sid, heading now to Castlemaine Secondary College (CSC), with his big sister, while Jean is now our only primary school student.

first pic was taken by Claire on the very first day, wednesday january 31th. second is my very first two children drop off at CSC.

so far so very good. they all love it. life is a blessing, and our children always ready to teach me how to embrace evolution.

yellow shades with a dash of pink

the train portraits, part II : the night gremlins

the train portraits, part I: morning