Our eldest daughter, Carol-Ann, lives and works in Melbourne, a two day drive away or two and a half hour flight. She was going to come to visit us when it was my birthday in June. Unfortunately, she and David had colds at that time so they didn't come. Then she had to have an operation on her hand to ease the pain caused by using a mouse for work everyday. She had tried everything to right it but eventually she had to give in to an operation. She had three weeks off work to help it heal. So she took 4 days of the last week to come and visit us. She still had a brace and a sling. She has had to learn to use her left hand for everything. Anyway it was lovely to have her here for a few days. David came too but he spends time with his parents who also live in Brisbane.
During her visit I took her and Bill to the local Art Gallery to see a small painting that I had hung in the gallery together with lots of other locals who participated in an activity to celebrate 30 years of the Logan Art Gallery. We were given a small canvas and we had to make a picture of something that depicts Logan City. We actually live in Logan City which borders Brisbane City, but people often don't know where Logan City is so we always say we are from Brisbane. They are like twin cities. Some members of the village art group participated in the activity.
Louise, Dot A, Lynne, are in the back row. Me, Dot M in front. We had finished our pics ready for Logan Art Gallery.
They were displayed in blocks on different walls. I have circled the ones from our art group. I did a water colour of part of Daisy Hill Forest.
Dot A. also did the forest.
Dot M. did one of our local birds and Louise did a scene from a popular restaurant in our area.
Lynne did the Red Bridge which is an old bridge which is no longer used for vehicles but has been painted bright red and has become a walk way to a lovely park by the river.
While we were in the Gallery we checked out other works on display. I rather liked the ones by local artist Wu Zhipeng.
That night Carol wanted to visit her sister, Sonya and see how the renovations are going on their house. Afterwards, Sonya and Bernie took us out for an Italian dinner.