The mirrors of Tenno

We will soon go back to the Bruns farm in Waitpinga, I know you are waiting for the kangaroos, but let's make a brief stop in Tenno, a small town in the suburbs of Hiroshima, since this is where Marie's Suitcase has been dragged to last weekend (well, it wasn't that heavy).
I have been to Tenno a few times but only now did I notice that this town is graced with a rather high number of mirrors. Maybe this is a good way to show you bits and pieces of Japanese suburban (suburbian?) streets.

This one was strangely (nicely) blue, but you can still see the convenience store.

Every mirror needs its Narcissus :-)

I am not sure how long those electoral posters have been there and for how many elections. It seems to me that the same old posters are always hanging on the walls and are never put down or replaced. But that is probably just my (wrong) impression.

See what you want to see... :-)

Pinboard. 

The speedway running just behind that roof. The town continues on the other side of it.

I don't know what happened there. Old age?

Narcissus had to come back, of course.

The railway crossing gate. 

Playing...

And I leave you here with this view of the bay of Hiroshima and its oyster racks. I hope you enjoyed the promenade...

Redheads

Uneven Surface

A short break along the road to Adelaide, maybe not far from Willunga, as far as my memory goes. A lot of vineyards. Next uneven surface is 5km ahead, they say. Well, we had our own uneven surface right in front of that sign, picking fresh almonds from a tree an cracking them open in the car. As I am writing this it just occurred to me, almonds need two protective surfaces, both of them uneven....

What is it?

What are those thingies on the ceiling?

Hint: It is the kitchen ceiling, and they are not worms.

Penguin

More AAART

Art by Henny.

I apologise for the poor quality of the pictures, they don't do justice to the gorgeous art. This room is very dark but I never like to use the flash. 

Art by Eeedie.

Stop moaning and draw

After a luscious dinner with lamb chops on the barbie and a few glasses of wine, we all felt the urge to... draw.

Henny and Eeedie are both very talented artists, and I'm the usual grumpy no-can-do when I feel that someone is better than me :-)) This inspired the motto of the Waitpinga School of Art: Stop moaning and draw.

And because drawing alone was not challenging enough for the genki girls, the next exercise was to draw your neighbour while watching your own hand in a mirror, without having a peek at the page.

That might sound easy but it was in fact rather challenging. Eeedie did great of course, with her portrait of the Sweat Sister.

And I think this one was vice versa? It does look like Eeedie. After a while they got bored with those rules too (too easy) and we all had to do the same with the hand we are not normally using. I'm telling you, this school is one of the toughest in the whole state of South Australia. 

This all ended up with a "confused Marie" :-)) Really great fun..

The shower

... is a fridge door :-)) 

I forgot to check out what's in the butter compartment. Probably butter.

Adelaide

I only spent a short morning in Adelaide, I don't have many pictures of the city, but I really liked the atmosphere. It felt safe, clean, colourful, warm, comfortable, green, arty, friendly.