 I proved I have overcome decades of ill health and injury and reclaimed my fitness by bush walking to the Pinnacle today, in the Grampians. I just missed a group of artists painting en plein air (in the open air), it would have been great to see them. Confront myself with what I once had the courage to do and did well. Today would have been a great time to paint outdoors, it was slightly overcast, not too hot and mid week, not too many people around, much easier to paint without too many on lookers. Privacy is not easy to achieve when you are painting, en plein air. I think I would prefer to create in private, like a hermit and only come out in public to exhibit or teach my art. Sneaking away, up a hill on a quiet bush trail, taking just a small kit of equipment, using the landscape itself as seating, far away from people, is my favorite on site painting location.  It is only now, that I have outlived my mum in actual age that I can totally free myself from feeling a twang of guilt when I disregard as I often do, all those instructions I was given as a child that no longer serve me well. lol, Reg says his mum would have said exactly the same thing. Lol J. Great to be older than your mum got to and feel OK about disregarding her advice on the basis of, ‘well mum, look at me know, I’m still going strong so I must be doing something right’ J, I think she would be pleased. J I WILL, make a commitment to overcome my inhibitions I have allowed develop these last few years and get out and en plein air, paint again, while I am here in the Grampians. Off my butt, stop talking about it, and 'do it'.  Add Comment A Brief History of Art Styles. 03/15/2010
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    My walking shoes and hat were on, my shoulder bag had the essentials, including the filled water bottle, when I saw Indigo, ‘stiffen’, and take up ‘pointer dog’ stance. I looked up and there quietly observing me was six guests who had dropped in without a warning, asking if they could stay for a morning tea with us. Hastily we reshuffled our plans and put the kettle on and they stayed for a chat or a photo shoot anyhow as they were exceedingly vain guests, primping and posing and for endless photos. After our coffee, they turned away in disgust saying they did not like my no left over breakfast scraps camp site and they moved on without telling us when they would next turn up totally treading so softly, unannounced and give me a start like that. Lol, it was funny. One moment they were not there, then the next thing these huge five baby emus and their daddy were in my camp. You have to love emu law. The fathers do most of the child raising work. So should guests arrive unannounced?. Lol J       Our Special Place: The Grampians, Victoria. 03/12/2010
 Reg and I had a whirlwind courtship after a friendship that began when I was fourteen and Reg was twenty. My darling man tells me he fell in love with me then but waited until I was an adult, before 'testing the waters', with a letters sent from where he was living at the time, Dampier in Western Australia. When I replied, he quit his job and set of to Melbourne sending me love letters about returning to his 'girl', from each overnight stop he arrived at. I fell in love on our first date, the first Wednesday in December 1967, the year I had turned 21. We were engages (secretly), on the following Saturday, our second date, then we promptly planned our honeymoon and lol, we left on the 1st of January, 1968 for our honeymoon in the Grampians. Oh yes, we did get married, a respectable, 6 months after our first date, in May 1968, we did not want to be foolish and not get to know each other a little more before making the commitment in a church in front of family and friends. lol. Well that is how 'we got together', and why the Grampians is such a special place to us. Reg and I also spent his long service leave there. Our daughters attended the primary school at Halls gap and we hiked all over those mountains for a second time. When I had my stroke at age 32, I set climbing to the top of Mount William in the Grampians as my goal. I did it two years later. I wonder if I could do it again at 63. WOW :-). that would be a challenge I might seriously think about :-). I think I might accept that challenge. I have painted heaps of art works of the Grampians as I LOVE this place. We will be staying for one week, from this Saturday night 13 March 2010, at the Grampians Gardens, Tourist Park.  What Phone Will I Buy? 03/06/2010
 I have never adapted to using my mobile phone for internet use. In fact, I have never even learned to send text messages on my mobiles phone. My main excuse for not doing that is that the keyboard on my several years old, mobile phone is too small to allow for easy texting. I intend to upgrade to an Iphone or a full keyboard phone, I am not sure what I want. I am currently looking around, trying to decide what phone to get. Many of my friends are buying an unlocked phone so they have full choice of internet provider and I am unsure if I want to do this or to get a phone for a discount price along with a two-year plan with a phone and internet provider. When any of my friends chat, about their new phones, I am ‘all ears’. I am letting everyone know ‘I will be in the market for a new phone soon’, as I want to learn all the advantages of the different types, so I make the best decision for my own use, one that will give me additional use, especially ease of texting, but will not greatly increase my monthly expenditure. I hope to learn more from my own friends, before I make this decision.  | Follow me on Facebook at @ Kathy Shell
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