Meet Sweet Jelly Bean!

Adrian and I found a new friend via dogzonline.com.au.  She joined us yesterday, February 9, 2011, and she's quite a sweetie!

I'm happy to have a new subject to photograph by the pond! 

Shotgun Shack in Daylesford

Adrian Kosky, Phil McNamara, and Al Stanley are Shotgun Shack.  I am always taken in and taken away by this band's hypnotic, pounding, cranked-up-Mississippi-Delta sounds, which Adrian recently labeled as "shambolic," as it is music that goes to shambles and comes back-around-again....and right on cue.  That's the music of Shotgun Shack.

January 30, 2011, at the Radio Springs Hotel

I had fun listening to a lot of music last weekend.  Here's a clip from the Radio Springs Hotel in Lyonville, Victoria, Australia.  I am thankful for that musical country place!

Table Hill was on a Sandwich Board!

I've never been on a sandwich board before.

This was exciting to me......seeing "Table Hill" as advertised at the Radio Springs Hotel in Lyonville, Victoria, Australia!  

Appreciating Beauty and Bounty

Tomorrow is New Year's Eve and I'm going to enjoy it in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.A.  I'll be back in Australia next week.

Memphis and My Mom's Fudge

After a loooooonnnnnnnnnng journey that started in Daylesford at 9 a.m. on the 20th of December, I am in Memphis with my family and enjoying all that goes with that.  Jet lag forced me to sleep late in the day today, but once I was up I started snacking on fudge that my mom made......and then I was happy to get my requested homemade lasagna for dinner.  Yummmmmm!  This is what holidays are for, I think.  I am blessed to be able to spend time with my family, to eat extra-special treats, and to have high-speed wireless internet.  

This is a Sign!

This week I helped Adrian set up a new sign for Tasma House.

I think it is beautiful!

Adrian hired a friend to paint the words onto a large piece of recycled iron which had been kept from another project.  For the base of the sign, we used an old garden-lounge chair, two old metal star-pickets, a few tent pegs, and some copper wire.

Lucky we both like to create things out of found objects, because this ended up being a very low-cost project that looks interesting, as well as inviting!

Constructing the sign is a sign that things are moving forward on Table Hill Road, and I am happy about that!

As 2010 comes to a close, I am wishing to be happily-busy in 2011.  I'm wanting to stir things up somewhere with Adrian.  Who knows where?  I don't.

A Beautiful Batch of Babies!

Yesterday morning we discovered these beauties had hatched in Tasma Gardens......Ten Australian Wood Ducklings!  I am thankful for them!!

Keeping a Calendar Again!

For the past two years, it seems like all I have been doing is taking pictures of ducks and other visitors to Tasma Gardens.  I have enjoyed that activity and the ducks have gotten comfortable with me.  They fly in and land in the pond regardless of my presence.  I take that as a compliment!  They are not shy about making baby ducks when I am nearby either!!

Cluck Ol' Hen, Performed by Stephen Seifert and Bing Futch!

I just came across this video via a friend on facebook.  I get very happy when I see friends playing together!

A Music Clip from Clarksdale, Video by Susana Travieso

Here's another video clip from my USTREAM.TV archives.  This is a clip from a Clarksdale trip........which was filmed by Susana Travieso in 2007.  In this film, Adrian Kosky is workshopping a tune that later turned into an actually recorded recording....a live CD of sorts....called, "Blue Simmer."  Click here for info on that CD, recorded in Australia in 2008.

From USTREAM.TV Archives....here's Adrian Kosky Jamming in Memphis

News from the Radio Springs Hotel

It was a lovely day to play in Lyonville yesterday!  I played a dulcimer at the Radio Springs Hotel with Adrian Kosky and Dr. Phil Mac.  Here's the newsletter that went with the gig:  Click here to read it.

I am happy to share a few of the recordings from my handy-dandy-digital-voice recorder!

Someone is Watching Me

And I'm enjoying the attention....even though I know it comes with hope of another hand-out!

I'm sitting on the veranda, listening to Adrian play his Magowan jocimer, and another cockatoo has just landed in Tasma Garden.  I can't see it at the moment, but I can hear that it is munching in time with Adrian's music.  Two Australian Wood Ducks are sleeping at the edge of the pond.  It all sounds good.  I'm thankful for these things.

Beautiful Birds in Daylesford, Victoria, Australia

I just like looking at these photogenic faces.  So I'm sharing some pictures of beautiful birds I have been seeing in Daylesford during the last few days.  I hope others enjoy looking at them, too!