Seems like we’ve turned the corner into autumn.
I’m enjoying the feeling of being pleasantly chilly! The rain seems entrenched for a bit, and I can give the air conditioner a rest for a while.
We’ve had some interesting visitors with the rain.
He stayed for a while, but disappeared in the night…
My roses are lingering, but their best days are past. We seem to have a hibiscus in the garden, though!
I associate them with summer, but Google tells me they actually flower in spring and autumn.
I have been working out how to organise a cert 3 online. I have managed to enrol, but it seems to be up to me to decide what subjects I do, and when. What happened to the days when you enrolled in a course and the educational facility told you what your timetable was? I feel like trying to work out what I’m actually doing has been more work than I’m anticipating the course itself will be!
I will be studying visual art. I did an Advanced Diploma of Art somewhere around 35 years ago, and I’m expecting this to be much less involved. The tools and methods of creative processes have changed in a lot of ways over that time, so I’m hoping to learn more computer based skills this time around.
It’s all been dredging up previous creative endeavours, and thinking about ways to merge then-me into now-me in an authentic way. We’ll see what happens.
One of the things I’ve done in the past is ATCs (Artist Trading Cards), small works of art (2.5 x 3.5 inches) that were originally meant to be traded between artists. They’re often themed, and one theme I did a series on led me to this song, which I’d half forgotten.
I listened to it a lot back then, but I don’t remember seeing this video before I looked up the song recently.
I can’t remember the exact theme of the ATC series – something like “heavenly bodies” – but I used the stars motif for mine.
Well, once again it’s looking back before going forward.
Who knows what will be this time next year?
1000 Fields of Roses 