The Queen Victoria Memorial Fountain

Photos of the Fountain taken this afternoon.

The band rotunda where Noel and Edie found the train.

The main Tamar Street entrance to City Park with the Fountain outside the Gate.

The Fountain at the current site.

A always like to visit this beautiful Victorian drinking Fountain in City Park. I have several old postcards of roughly 100 years ago of scenes in and around City Park. Originally the fountain was situated just outside the main Tamar Street entrance gate to the City Park. Then it was moved to its current site.

I also have old post card that feature two other significant structures to be found in the park: The Soldiers Memorial and the Band Rotunda.

Naw Ruz (Baha'i New Year)

This evening we celebrated Naw Ruz (New Day) with other Baha'is in the Launceston area and their friends. We enjoyed some entertainment as well as some delicious food and lots of laughs and great conversation.
Baha'is all over the world celebrate Naw Ruz. It is the first day of the Baha'i calendar which has 19 months of 19 days. The 19th month is a period of fasting from food and drink during daylight hours and it is a time for spiritual reflection and renewal. The end of the fast is a time for celebration as we look forward to another exciting year ahead.
For Baha'is in the northern hemisphere, the 21st of March coincides with the vernal equinox - the first day of spring. Of course for us in Tasmania, it is the first day of autumn and so it is more related to the traditional concept of a harvest festival.

Pop-up Books

Autumn Crocus blooms

On the return journey to Launceston, we called in to visit god mother Telle Fisher at Latrobe. She always has interesting flowers blooming in her garden. There were masses of autumn crocus flowers in her garden today.

Danny Crothers and his prize pumpkin

After we had collected our tulip bulbs, we visited another cousin who lives at Wynyard. Danny is a keen and very successful gardener. It happened that the previous weekend had been 120th Wynyard Agricultural Show time and Danny was delighted to have won first prize for one of his beautiful pumpkins. Here he is with the prize pumpkin and the blue ribbon!

A visit with cousins Emma, Dale and Alice

Dale, Emma, Edward and Alice

Today we took a trip to the NW Coast to collect some tulip bulbs from the Table Cape Tulip Farm at Wynyard. On the way, we stopped off in Burnie to visit my cousins, Dale and Emma Broomhall. Cousin Alice, who lives nearby called in too, so we had a nice little reunion and caught up with lots of family news.

Albert

Here is a photo of Albert, our 18 year old cat, having an afternoon rest
on the dining room floor.

Work around our house

Over the past few days, we have spent some time working on the exterior of our house. Noel has been cleaning the roof and I have been putting in some pathways around the back garden area.

Clouds

Here are images of some beautiful cloud formations we noticed today.

Happy birthday to Sarah and Zachary.

It is birthday week for Sarah and Zachary. Sarah celebrates her special day today and Zachary will celebrate his birthday on Wednesday. Happy birthday!!!

Ken and Juliet Partridge

While we were strolling around the market, we met our very dear friends, Ken and Juliet Partridge.

Honeychurch Honey & The Glover Prize

Today we went to Evandale to view the work on display for the Glover Prize Exhibition. The outdoor section of the usual Sunday market was in full swing so we purchased a container of our favourite honey from Cheryl Honeychurch who has a regular stall at this market. She has put together a beautiful display about her bees, so it is a very interesting, educational stall as well as the place to get the most delicious honey in Tasmania! Our favourite flavour is 'prickly box'.

'Fierce or Friendly : Humans in the animal world' exhibition

This afternoon we spent some time at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery exploring the excellent exhibition , Fierce or Friendly: humans in the animal world. It is an exhibition of zoological specimens, art and artefacts selected from the permanent collection of the museum, the Museum of Old and New Art as well as some private collections around Tasmania.

We visit Sally Mollison in Hobart

Sally and Noel with a view of the Derwent.

This morning we spent an hour visiting Sally Mollison. Although we kept in touch during the time Noel and I were living in Israel, Sally, John and their son Nathaniel moved from Launceston to live in Hobart, so it was great to finally spend some time with Sally during our short visit to Hobart. John and Sally's new home has beautiful setting right beside the Derwent River.

Edie and Noel

We spent the evening with Toby, Nicole, Dorian and Edie. In the afternoon we had a lot of fun playing with our grand daughter Edie - blowing bubbles, drawing with chalks and reading stories.

Happy birthday Margaret.

Today is another happy birthday for our very dear friend, Margaret Richmond who lives at Devonport. I have known Margaret for many years. We first met when I was lecturing in Visual Arts Education at the University and Margaret was Infant Mistress as Devonport Central School.
I often supervised students when they were posted to Devonport Central. As well, from time to time, I conducted in-service workshops for teachers on the N.W. Coast. I have great admiration for Margaret and her achievements in education as well as her contribution to the knowledge about Tasmanian shells through her collections and publications.