Fog and rocks
Well the smoke has cleared but today the mountain ranges were covered by a different kind of cloud.
The early morning fog spills down the slopes like a great big doona.
At the base of those mountains is a disused Quarry. Now filled with water from a natural spring, it’s called Moore Lake.
I fossicked about here for a bit for my pigment-holding rocks. We’re to make our own paint tomorrow the old fashioned way of bashing rocks to a powder.
Unfortunately Cairns is granite/quartz/basalt based (from the mountains being eroded away), so not very condusive to giving up colour. I’ve a few promising rocks, as well as purple mollusc shells and dead pastels, so I should be able to put something in my expectant paint pans.
Can’t stay and play, the deadline for the “BIG” exhibition has been moved forward to tomorrow, so I’m off to grab my brushes!
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a belated happy new year to you, my friend! e.
That sounds like fun. The orange rock looks promising. I can’t upload comments on anyones bblog. It starts to upload and then just stops. Do others have this problem or is it just me?
Glad you have got this fab site. The photos are serene.
Bigbug Blog continues to impress then Diane? I must try and get over there to see everyone’s blog soon. I am just so FLAT OUT again, and it’s the only the first week back - very worrying.
Moore Lake is a special place - no- one seems to know it’s there. The big cyclone fence (with a little hole in it) may have something to do with it…