fieldwork in the blue mountains

they were very kind to me in the Blue Mountains

[especially Marjorie and Loret, who carried the burden of organising]

i stayed with my friend Pam de Groot

who

aside from being a top class felter and

general Good Sort, understands that it's important to relax with
a little something at the end of the day
and to have a bit of quiet time

because the very last thing you need

after a day on the deck [or at breakfast just before]

is to have your brains picked over by an info-vampire

[...one of the reasons i so frequently camp in a helltell]

one day she even got up very very early

and took me for a wander into the bush

to this magical place

it was like standing in a William Robinson painting
[there's another link to his work on the side bar...]

the images above show some of the delightful colours
we coaxed into cloth from windfalls and weeds

there's another 'fieldwork' class next year
at the Geelong Forum in the last week of September 2012
part of a Design Focus Group
details should be on their website soon
because
it's already in the magazine