Dot and I regularly go to the Markets in the Mall on the last Sunday of each month. Armidale's main street, which is pedestrianised, is covered in stalls selling all sorts of things - fruit and vegetables, jars of honey and jam, second-hand books and tools, crafts - we saw yesterday some excellent wood-work for example, toys, hand-made soaps and cosmetics. There are also stalls for political parties, local action groups (one yesterday was campaigning for money for a new public library), and environmentalists and lots of different foods - Asian, Dutch poffertjes, lovely French croissants, spectacular ice-creams and so on.
One of the vendors is a creative bloke who takes scrap-metal and turns them into sculptures. We love his work and bought the metal dragon with mesh wings shown here - like something out Lord of the Rings - a few years ago as a Christmas present for Emily and Greg. Well, for some reason they didn't want it and it has graced our garden ever since.
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Well, yesterday we decided to buy another object. This time it was a blow-fly! Yes, one of those pesky insects that blight our summers. This year, the extremely dry conditions until the last couple of weeks when it has simply poured day after day has led to an absence of the critters and I was having blow-fly withdrawal symptoms. I persuaded Dot to buy the metal blow-fly instead of a lizard or something similar and here it is! Rather nice, eh?
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AS
One of the vendors is a creative bloke who takes scrap-metal and turns them into sculptures. We love his work and bought the metal dragon with mesh wings shown here - like something out Lord of the Rings - a few years ago as a Christmas present for Emily and Greg. Well, for some reason they didn't want it and it has graced our garden ever since.
Well, yesterday we decided to buy another object. This time it was a blow-fly! Yes, one of those pesky insects that blight our summers. This year, the extremely dry conditions until the last couple of weeks when it has simply poured day after day has led to an absence of the critters and I was having blow-fly withdrawal symptoms. I persuaded Dot to buy the metal blow-fly instead of a lizard or something similar and here it is! Rather nice, eh?
AS
2 comments:
I am not surprised that Emily did not want the first creation. It is freaky. As for the blow fly, it is not to my taste. Thank goodness we in England are not so pestered by flies as you are. In Scotland the Scottish midge has a bad reputation in the early summer but luckily it has not ventured south. Whether our increasingly mild climate will encourage sub-continental mosquitos with their various diseases to come here remains to be seen. Richard. U.K.
Beautiful contemporary metal sculpture. Nice play on the idea of looking at things from a particular angle.
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