Where he mocked our efforts to contain Her, moving into the “real” first verse of My Country by Dorothea MacKellar (not the one that starts “I love a sunburnt country” which is actually the second verse, and her “ordered woods and gardens”.
In Search of Colour seeks out just that. We want to see what Mother Nature can provide closer to home and on a haphazard basis, circulating now and again from home.
I look at the map of the major trips so far and feel something is missing. Focussing on our local area, and here we talk about the Mid North Coast of New South Wales starting with our own patch of colour – our backyard we are going to look in depth on something Mother Nature has on offer. They might be hers individually or those created at the hand of a human. But no matter what we find it will be colourful
It might be something as small as a garden, a beach, a park or simply something Mumma paints of her own accord like an impending storm or even an entire town