Okie, the past weekend was fantastic! :)

Winter Fest was on and usually I'm not one to get festive about Winter unless that involves hiding inside in front of the fire with a good book, hot chocolate and good company. Although Winter here does hold less of a prospect of burning to death in a raging bushfire than Summer does. The less said about that subject, the better.

So a couple of weeks ago, I received an inviatation from a local gallery to go to an exhibition launch there on the weekend for an abstract landscape artist who's internationally renowned, etc, etc. Decided to go. It was a good excuse to check out other Winter Fest stuff anyways.

The exhibition launch day comes, my little dog and I rejoice in the sunny weather (although we bundle up because it's still cold, just in case people were going to get the wrong idea about Winter and Fests and so on) and toddle off down the street, deciding to leave early and meander.

Oh the fortuitousness of that decision! It meant that we ended up seeing most of the performance by Strange Fruit, a group of amazing performance artists (http://www.strangefruit.net.au/). It was amazingly beautiful! Just perfect, so uplifting and an amazing way to get you ready for viewing art of all other kinds. Of course, my lil' dog gets fawned over and patted by all and sundry while this is happening. He loves the attention...

But the performance ends and 2 o'clock comes and it's time for the exhibition. It's not bad. The stuff is very abstract and I think to myself I could do much the same thing with one foot but it's good anyway. End up chatting away to the artist and his son (who wanted to pat my lil' dog).

Meandered home after that, talked to loads of people, met some neighbours and talked to them, etc. Very relaxing! :)