Serenity Is Found...

Serenity is found in an instant when I venture out into my garden.

 After quenching the thirst of the plants and refreshing the water bowls and birdbaths I always take a soul nurturing stroll. 

It is never completely silent in the garden. 

Between birdsong, rustling leave and the relaxing hum of buzzing bees there is always a soothing lullaby to be heard...

 

Turning Into...

Turning into the Mundaring Village Shopping Centre from Great Eastern Highway you are greeted by these wonderful banners.

Land For Wildlife seems a fitting topic for an art project, especially up here in the hills. The constant greed of corporations who keep trying to destroy more of our precious bushland is a fight local residents are continually battling against.

Because, once it's gone, it's gone.

Teaching our young children the importance of keeping the land for our wildlife is vitality important.

By the looks of these pieces it seems we have a selection of talented young local upcoming artists in our midst who I trust go on to be advocates for keeping the untouched bushlands just the way they are...

 

Magpie-Larks...

Magpie-larks are actually neither a magpie nor a lark, they are more closely related to fantails, drongos and monarchs. They will mate for life, and build a nest of plant fibres and mud to hold everything together. Which is why some people call them mudlarks. 

The local indigenous people call them Dilabit.

Magpie-larks are one of an usual species of birds that sing in duets. It's actually pretty difficult to tell if it's just one bird singing. Each bird sings one note per second, separated by half a second. 

They also do not like seeing their reflections, and I have had to turn a garden mirror around so that the magpie-lark would move on.

In the autumn and winter magpie-larks migrate to warmer places flying in large flocks...