A Wynn-win situation

Bird of the Day:   Topknot Pigeon, with little competition

Plant of the Day:  Staghorn ferns

Scene of the Day;  Looking down from Fran's place across the Tweed Valley, nearly where Ellioth Gruner did a Wynn-winning painting.

Art of the day;  Display at the Tweed Regional Gallery!  Just because its official doesn't mean it is ineligible for an award

Typically Australian thing of the day: Most people waving to us as we walked the dog along the road this morning.

Maximum Temperature 21 Minimum temperature  9

Distance traveled  with camper  0 without camper 40

On the previous day while I was out birding Frances too Tammy for a walk up the road  past the camp.  She enjoyed it so we did the same again this morning.  A particular attraction was the epiphytic ferns growing on the trees.

We then headed off to the Tweed Regional Gallery so that I could have a look round while Frances looked after Tammy.  (I rated our chances of persuading them that she was a seeing eye dog were minimal, as we don't have one of those special harnesses for her.)  This gives spectacular views over the Tweed Valley to Mount Warning.

The exterior of the new extension features these rainbow metal palings.  As well as the floral design those in colours other than dark blue are engraved with the name of a benefactor of the Gallery.  (Two generations of the Anthony family are prominent here, but none of the DAAS).

A major part of the extensions is devoted to Margaret Olley and they have carefully recreated two rooms in her house, which were left to the Gallery.  She was the antithesis to decluttering and all the piles of 'stuff' were carefully catalogued and recreated here.  (Apparently she was also famous for not dusting, but it seems even curators do have limits to what they will preserve.)

This is the entrance to the Gallery where, in reality, you can see through the vestibule to Mt Warning.

More of the car park decor.

We then went for lunch with our friend who lives on the Tomewin Rd, where we have stayed in the past.  This was the view of Mt Warning from her deck.

Looking to the left of that gives a great view across the Valley.  This is similar to the position (it was actually on the road below the house) from which Ellioth Gruner painted a scene which won the Wynn prize for landscape painting.

Here is the garden of our friend's house.  She is trying - with good success - to recreate the local flora and is doing a lot of planting as well as removing weeds such as lantana (and hopes to get into an invasion of Madeira Vine in the near future).

Back at the camp sunset was happening.

At the start of yesterday's post I referred to the avian equivalent of vultures.  By the evening the human equivalent had turned up in the form of, as I was pompously informed "9 families who are going to have a campfire here.  It is a family farmstay.".  The Griffon concerned then said, "We'll just be having a pleasant evening, not getting drunk or anything."   Tomorrow's post begins with a review of that statement.

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