Well Wednesday although being a sad day because Kyel left it was also very cultural as myself and Ruth went to the Brisbane Gallery and the Gallery of Modern Art, don't laugh everyone I will be a super cultured person when I get home! Some of the work was superb especially the exhibition showing contempory indidgenous art, so not your traditional dot paintings, very political...
The art theme continued on Thursday when Ruth took me to her life drawing class...first time I have every drawn a naked lady before! Was a brilliant night! Wine flowed freely and I met some amazing artists all with different styles and who actually complimented me on my work even though in my opinion it was shocking, since my models shoulder seemed to be near her stomach!
The pictures I'm posting are from Ruth and David's lovely farm. They only go down there a couple of times a week and sometimes stay there, they have converted this tin shed into a little cabin and its just brilliant! There is a macadamia nut tree which is what the bags of nuts are and there farm is 500 acres, and no thats not a typo...so it's pretty huge! They allow someone to graze cattle on the grass but most of it is forest with some of the most stunning trees I have seen, though apparently the ones I thought looked pretty were actually weeds! I spend most of the day in a hammock reading which is defnitely the best way to farm, and then Ruth took me round a little bit of the farm following cattle tracks and showing me where they planned to do certain things. I can't imagine having land that big, the maintinance is just enormous but it's so quiet there I could easily live there! We had dinner there and then were visited by Hamish the tree frog who just clung to Ruths finger and was super cute! No spiders or snakes thank GOD!
Today was Saturday and Ruth and David have enrolled on a forestry course which I went along to. Basically you learn how to manage the trees on your property, what to do with them etc etc and you go round on field trips to the "classmates" farms. Lovely group of people all with very interesting lives. I learnt how to plant tree seeds and how to measure the volume of a tree so when you cut it for timber you can get the price for the volume of wood and other things to. Some trees are worth more than $800 dollars each and they are just huge! One guy called Dean knew everything about seeds, had long hair and beard and walked bare foot even through gravel and long grass! Most of the people had such a diverse farm so doing cattle and fruit or plantation trees...super interesting and even got a contact out of it for some possible work!
Hope you like the pics and will post sometime next week...
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