winter colour picked from the garden. 

 So cold. Most of the day the temperature has  been sitting around 8 degrees.  There's also been snow in the dandenongs, 

as an antarctic blast sweeps across Victoria.
I feel like I'm an occupant of Shackletons hut. 

So cold, still breathing out condensation in the kitchen at 2 in the afternoon. 

 Meanwhile , in the only warm room of the house....

.....and this afternoon, the sun appeared....

vegan baking

Had a go at making vegan croissants this week.

Crisp  and flaky on the outside -warm, soft and light in texture on the inside.

Time consuming, but absolutely delicious. 

Bon appetite!

natures gifts - lemon yellow in the middle of winter.....

From the local library, not entirely vegan but.....

what a bookcover design.

Jonquils, snow drops and other weeds picked down along the walking trail......

Soon too, the wattle trees will be bursting with winter colour.

The Californian Redwood forest, Victoria.

Row upon orderly row of  trees that don't belong in a native setting, and to my mind just look weird and alien in the victorian rainforest. The first eerie thing I noticed was the lack of life that you normally associate with an understory rich in activity in the surrounding rainforests and no birds were to be seen. 

( THe plantations apparently were used for experimental purposes as part of a hydrogrogy research program dated back to the 1930"s )

Back home today.

Recent project has seen me repair a large cardboard and papier mache frame i had made some 20 years ago. I also created a collage on cardboard to complete.