(*warning lots of photos)There was some playing tourist when I visited Jo for the Mildura Quilt Show...Sunday morning, before heading to Red Cliffs for the show, I ventured out to Werrimull...a small town in the Millewa west of Mildura to see the painted field bins (only about 65 kms/45 minutes so an easy trip out and back to Red Cliffs to the show)...coming in to town I found something else to stop for first...the local war memorial...
The poppies are permanent - they are ceramic and each one is different from the next exactly as in nature...just beautiful...behind is the Pioneer Plantation, the trees have plaques with the names of early settlers and their
families, kind of like a variation on the theme of an Avenue of Honour
but not lining a road, a really lovely way to honour the local community...
In town, opposite the pub, the recreation oval has been developed by the local school students into the Mandala: Trail of Discovery and the painted field bins are in the front area of the reserve...they all look fantastic with the focus of local fauna and flora...
I didn't have time (or wearing the right footwear - it was a warm day, sandals and the bush are not a good combo in potential snake territory!) so I didn't walk the trail...and anyway I was keen to get back to Red Cliffs for the show.
Happy Stitching...
3 comments:
Always lovely to see this beautiful art, thank you. xx
We still haven’t been out there to see them. Something always comes up. They look wonderful
Hope you enjoyed the show. Thanks for visiting.
Those bins are stunning, thanks for sharing.
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