Meanwhile .......

There's nothing much going on here, while we wait and watch the latest COVID outbreak numbers and signs of things improving (or not). There aren't many places we can go or plan to go at the moment. It hasn't helped that Canberra has had a very wet, very cold and very cloudy winter this year - not very mood lifting some days.

However, upon reflection there have indeed been some bright spots over the past two weeks here in (currently unaffected) Canberra ....

We took Jody and Ella on our weekly Mt Ainslie climb in the last week of the school holidays (while Abi was at horse riding camp). Ella didn't find the climb too challenging but she found it hard to understand why we walk it when there is a perfectly good road up to the summit - to drive up!

The same day, approaching home, after picking Abi up from horse riding we had this most amazing sunset experience. Abi remarked that the sky looked like scrambled eggs (on fire)!

and then reflected back on to the Carillon and Aspen Island ......

We get to see a lot of our lake - our bridge to bridge walk is our main outing most days. Rob captured the shifting fog this morning a week or so ago while we enjoyed our coffee ......

And I tried to capture our view of the dusting of snow on the distant Brindabella Mountains on this morning's walk, but I think I was too far away!

It felt a bit daring to travel towards Bowral during the week and stop for lunch at Bendooley Estate. We did it - it was lovely - but maybe we shouldn't have??

Surprisingly, there were plenty of other people there having lunch too. It wasn't against the health directions for us  - but probably not advisable with all the uncertainty around. The Bowral area is getting pretty close to the Greater Sydney defined border!

A lovely (safe?) thing we were able to do was attend a members only (guided) viewing of the new Know My Name (Part 2) exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia last Friday night. Ewa Pachucka's fibre art "Landscape with Bodies" was probably one of the most distinctive works in the space ........

but this "Fear Eats the Soul" neon installation by Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley is probably what is most relevant to the current times!