Good news and a trip to Orkney

A week or so ago I had the pleasure of asking my Dad to post off my book "Red Card" to Artspace Mackay as it has been selected as a finalist in The Libris Awards - Australia's premier artists' book prize.

It is an honour to have your books selected for this show, and when I look at the catalogue I am impressed by so many of the books that will be there.

The show opens, and the winners are announced, not long after we return o Australia so we won't be getting on a plane and heading north for it which is a bit of a shame, but we will watch with interest from afar!

Red offers the segue to the few days we had in Orkney through the week. We love visiting the islands and get a real fix of art when we are there and because we are here in Summer time, we also got to see places that have often been closed on previous visits.

But also, the flowers are out and how good is this red poppy? It was the size of a bread and butter plate and was bursting with its vibrant gloriousness.

Apart from art we had many a good coffee, cake and meal... and managed to do our Biblio twice!

And we wandered and wandered the streets and lanes and closes and wynds and piers of Stromness...

As ever, we really enjoyed our visit and are already planning for when we next return to the cottage, to pop over and do some new and different things.