Our Final Day in the Blue Mountains...

Apr 07

Our final day was filled with a mixture of chores, fun, and longing to stay where we are.

Our first stop was at my new favorite grocery store. Since its foundation in 1914, Coles has grown to become the second-largest retailer in Australia after its principal rival, Woolworths. Woolworths!!!
A promised return to the Carrington provided us with our mid-morning coffee treat. This will be missed.

We ended our outing at a wonderful art exhibition of Lorraine Brownlee's beautiful prints.
The gallery was on the grounds of the Everglades House & Gardens (1930). Touring this art deco home, and its masterpiece gardens, will have to be another trip. Today, we only had time to ogle some fabulous prints.
Australian artist and illustrator, Lorraine Brownlee, lives with her husband Ian (an award-winning printer and publisher) in the World Heritage-listed Blue Mountains. Her artwork reflects her great love for plants and flowers in all their intricate beauty and is inspired by the natural beauty of the countryside and bushland that surrounds her home.
Lorraine explains her art, "One of my favorite things is drawing the native plants which I see every day in the bush around my home. I do my best to observe nature and capture what I see in my initial pencil drawings. I then enhance the delicate, intricate shapes, lines and patterns to bring out their magic. By the time I come to the final pen drawings, I have turned the natural form into a pattern and each unique design seems to flow onto the paper, almost on its own."



Lorraine's work boasts an impressive portfolio of vibrant and uplifting full-color illustrations that encapsulate the unique characteristics of Australia's plants and flowers, oceans and shores, and its rugged terrain. Gorgeous!
Laundry, packing, travel paperwork, and some tidying up rounded off our finale. Tomorrow morning we journey on. Being in the Blue Mountains was the perfect reprieve before the final leg of this Australian Adventure.

"To those debilitated by strenuous work in the cities,
or suffering with any form of anemia, nerves or lassitude,
 a course of the ozone laden winds
proves a veritable elixir of life.”
-The Katoomba Daily wrote of a visit to the Blue Mountains, 1920.

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