Some of the amazing cloudforms here late yesterday, racing across the sky
accompanied by lightning, massive thunder rolls and torrential rain.
Somewhere east of here there is sure to have been storm damage.

A ceramic pot by artist Helen Foster of Margaret River, Western Australia.

The beautiful relief design on this pot speaks to me of bits of dried grass at the top of a sandhill, or something washed up on the beach and dried.

At times this blogger thing is a bit frustrating, as even when you think you are planning out things to appear on the page in a logical order, sometimes with the best will in the world, they don’t! And, since I have a quilt calling to me from upstairs, I am not going to linger longer on this. I have confidence my readers will be able to link the three pictures and read the text in slightly wrong order OK.

A ceramic pot from Margaret River W.A. artist, Helen Foster.

This beautiful sandy surface texture could be coastal or inland salt pan inspired, most of us have experienced and relate to at least one of those. (well most Aussies have, anyway)

A ceramic pot from Margaret River W.A. artist, Helen Foster.

This beautiful sandy surface texture could be coastal or inland salt pan inspired, most of us have experienced and relate to at least one of those. (well most Aussies have, anyway)

This pic is of a vine we have always loved as it climbs around several houses in this area – and just this week planted one in our garden.

No, DH didn’t mangle it in the car while bringing it home, (as happened with a beautiful bougainvillea once when the car door blew shut on the top third of the plant!…it has now recoverd from the shock) The woman at the nursery picked a sample for him to look at more closely as they talked about it.

This one piece shows all the main stages of flowering:- the row of green bobbly things are actually the unopened flowers, next up, green tinged with yellow is young flowers,, which change colour to orange/mature after a while, and then finally the little cup things drop off – as per lower right corner. It is a vine, not a bottle brush, nor is it a eucalpyt, but reminds us of both. We are replacing a very uncooperative maracuya/passionfruit with this vine , and have resigned ourselves to buying passionfruit in the supermarket. NO, I’m not going floral in my quiltmaking, just including this on the basis of a thing of beauty being a joy for ever…