Thanks for joining me & "snapping." I had begun to think I really jumped the
gun and that it was still Monday!
Today, Max, I would like to be that balloon over the lake - great image.
Stephen V
> This is us at the hotel window, Black Mountain on the right, modest university
> buildings below among trees, the new national museum on its peninsula, Lake
> Burley Griffin spreading wide, and the hill with Parliament House all so
> angular.
>
> This is me strolling past Pollock's Blue Poles.
> Another time perhaps it will be a picture rather than a lot of paint.
> The teacher is asking the children what they can see and how the artist may
> have
> done it.
>
> This is the big room full of little Whistlers.
> My legs are tired. I'd rather be sitting with a Whistler book on my lap.
> His Venice is full of dark details and a sense of dampness, poverty and
> disrepair.
>
> Canberra is disturbingly clean, orderly, and quiet.
> Each morning a hot-air balloon skims slowly over the lake, then its flame
> flares, it rises above the museum and passes to the east - where I'm told a
> champagne breakfast awaits them.
>
> We test the cafes at all the museums and galleries.
> The National Library's is best.
>
> - Max Richards, now returned to Melbourne
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