Sketchbook watercolour from a walk in the Border Range National Park (on the border of northern NSW and Qld.) Watercolour from my Sketchbook A collection of volcanic rock, Bleeding Heart leaf, giant snail shell, eucalypt leaf and fallen Flame tree flowers are things that caught my magpie eye on this walk through the rainforest […]
Antarctic Beech Trees of Gondwanaland
When you think of Australia, what landscape do you picture? Rusty red sunburnt country… Aquamarine coral reefs… Golden beaches… or… Lush green rainforest? Australian Rainforest With only 0.3% of the Australian continent covered by rainforest it’s not surprising that the image of a sunburnt country, fringed by golden beaches and the great barrier reef generally […]
Grandchildren Following the Footsteps
A few years ago Rosemary packed up home to travel around Australia on an extended holiday. When she reached Central Australia she came across Journey Jottings Journal Maps. She bought three Australia Journal Maps. Posting one to each of her grandchildren who lived in Great Britain. Where’s Grandma? From this point on on her travels around […]
Nostalgia & Seth Godin
Seth Godin said in a blog post about Nostalgia… “Nostalgia is a basic human emotion” Kodak created a billion dollar industry by giving people a tool to feed their nostalgia. “We don’t take pictures because we want to know what we’re seeing now… we already know that. We take pictures because it makes us feel […]
100 Aker Wood & the Acorn
100 Aker Wood – The Perfect Story Map Do you love the stories of Pooh Bear along with EH Shepherd’s gorgeous illustrations that adorn every page of AA Milne’s classic – The House at Pooh Corner? And what about the the magical map of 100 aker wood, which in the original version appeared pasted across […]