Sunday, March 4, 2018

Adelaide - Day 3

On the third day we were out from 9 to 5:15, starting with the Jam Factory, an amazing craft center, a surprising art gallery next door with a show by artists with Islamic names, the Museum of South Australia with its wonderful collection of Aboriginal material, lunch/dinner at a Vietnamese restaurant and finally, the lovely Botanical Gardens. I posed with a famous comedian. And the weather was perfect. I can't seem to control the order of the pictures uploading and it takes too much time to rearrange them. So here's a code to identify where they were taken:
M = Museum of South Australia
B= Botancal Gardens
A= Art Gallery
S= Street
J: Jam Factory Craft Center

A: Woven U.S. dollars

A: Shredded U.S. dollars

M: Shields, clubs and knives

M: Objects related to Aboriginal mythology

M: Shields

M: One particularly fine example

S: Sculpture

S: Beloved Australian comedian

M: Shell decorated with geometric pattern and footprints of humans, kangaroos and emus.

J: Photo exhibition of sex organs of flowers

J: Ditto

J: Glassblowing studio


A: Mirror portraits of women

A: Weaving

A: Based on traditional crocheted skullcaps

A: Photo

M: Aboriginal faces

M: Pine cone containing the bunya nut I opened the other day.

M: Aboriginal herbs, seeds etc.

B: Amazonian Lily leaf

B: Birds

B; Tree

B: Bush



B: Lotus
FOOTNOTE: On the morning of this third day in Adelaide I first realized our hotel room had a balcony. That may give you an idea of the state of my mental awareness.

View from our balcony

4 comments:

  1. Your lotus pod photo reminded me that there are people who find images of clusters of holes disturbing and it is a recognized condition called trypophobia. There are some interesting evolutionary theories about this phobia. I've come across several articles on it, and they seem to like including images of lotus pods.

    http://www.businessinsider.com/the-science-of-trypophobia-a-fear-of-holes-2015-8

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  2. Those very cool-looking colorful birds that you photographed are "Rainbow Lorikeets":

    http://birds-infoa2z.blogspot.com/2013/06/Rainbow-Lorikeet-Bird-Information.html

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  3. Apparently, the Lorikeets are native to mainland Australia and are now considered an invasive species and a pest, in Tasmania.

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