BangalowNSW

my personal blog about my travels through NSW Australia . I enjoyed a wonderful vacation in the towns of Byron Bay, Bangalow and Ewingsdale. I spent a month last year , July of 2012, enjoying the sun, bike rides, long walks along the coast from Belongil to Tyagarah beach completely in the nude., wonderful bush walks with friends and dinner dates.. I hope to share my adventures and experiences and reminisce until I return next year.

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School project

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Art Walk Friday in Portland Maine. We went out for the first time this season to the monthly art walk. I skipped the street vendors as it has become very flea market oriented with people just selling junk to make money or to pay rent for the week. Instead we visited the PMA which had a wonderful exhibit and was not quite full. It was comfortable enough to breeze through each floor. The works were beautifully curated on all floors.

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I have not added notes to this blog in quite a while. Life has taken me through some rough patches since my last post. A bout with breast cancer, a double mastectomy, more and more health issues culminating in quite a health scare three weeks ago. I have not returned to Oz since 2018 thanks to a pandemic and now some rough times we are enduring in the USA. Nonetheless, my heart lives in that far away land that I love. Summers are still spent in Maine. And soon in less than a year, I move up north to our land in this state. Retirement is months away and the third act of life is soon to arrive for me. I look forward to more time to enjoy my art , my writing and being present in this world. A life well lived is the goal as I culminate my last year of twenty five as a college professor. On to better days, free from everyday pressures and hassles. Free to let my spirit roam as it wills like it always has. Being present, grateful in a state of calm , peace and joy. Past and present photos collide along with some new hobbies and examples of my art . I have returned to writing journals and delving in to the stationary world of travelers notebooks and fountain pens. I live in that quiet space of my mind where words are insufficient to express my feelings and thoughts. Silence and quiet is place and space I prefer.

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Collection of photos from my travels. Chicago, Portland Maine, Key Largo, Miami, and my studio.

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Cool band singing at the #QueenStreetMall in #Brisbane #Australia - Here Comes the Rain ..

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Angles, colors, abstractions of life and more ...

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19, flag, bottles rain and more from my ordinary existence

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Photos that i take as i wander about in this world ...

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More of my faves from Scope and ArtMiami2015

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My faves at ArtMiami2015

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Best of ArtContext in ArtMiami2015 Johnny warangkula tjupurrula Audrey flack 1951 abstract expressionist landscape with sky Richard Pousette-Dart 1985-87 window of the spirit Julius Tobias 58-61 Lee Seung-Ha Korea abstract sea 4 205

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Cape Byron walk ... c.AF/2014-8

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Main Beach Byron Bay looking in the direction of Belongil beach. At sunset this is quite a spectacular scene. It's a gathering place for drum circles and to simply take in the view. In the distance you get a glimpse of Mt.Warning . c.AF/2014

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Halfway mark between my two favorite towns on the old Bangalow Road 7/2012 c.AF

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Byron Totem pole near woolworths on st.John street

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Entrance to Suffolk Part Beach on a cool winters day, August 8th, 2014.

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Bangalow shops c.AF2012