We drove up to Mildura and beyond to Renmark for the funeral of Sonia Skipper.Sonia died at the age of ninety just after her birthday.There was a ceremony at the graveside and then we headed back to the house for tea and sandwiches and wine and beer and amazing stories and family feuds.
Eight hours in the car watching the landscape of Victoria pass by .It was really hard to take photos as we were driving they all came out blurry. So we stuck to photos on the day.
Sonia's house was a typical Mallee house with very wide verandahs
to keep the house oh so cool in the sizzling heat of Summer.
All the rooms inside had paintings by sonia and the Skipper clan and friends.
The mighty Murray wound its way around the landscape and we caught glimpses as we drove then back to Melbourne via Adelaide.
We had an overnight stop to see the Rhodin sculptures at the Adelaide gallery.Then back on the road for pizza in Murraybridge and a brown stay in a brown motel in Bordertown.
Then mile after mile of ploughed fields ready for the wheat to sprout
and the whole western wheat belt to grow ,to feed a nation
1 comment:
Nice one Thomsey. Great to see photos of where you've been. The house looks lovely, you were right in your description of all the paintings all over the walls. Let's do that in our houses soon....well maybe when we can afford to buy a little Art.
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