TVT Wolli Creek

Twin Valley Trail

The link goes to a not particularly good video; I have a lot to learn about editing. It's very bumpy. It's taken the 4 days after the heavy rains, so it looks pretty lush.  Usually I run this trail but I'm managing an injury at the moment, so this is at walking speed. Sadly at this stage the running videos are just too bumpy for viewing.

I think it gives a feel for the different elements. It's a heavily compromised landscape; quarry, earthworks, drains, parks and paths. For all that, it has charm.

 After a pruning frenzy, the back garden currently looks like this. This is the two lower storeys; the tops of the two tree ferns and the eucalypt have been cut off. I must say that I quite like the way the tap has held up as an aesthetic feature over the years. It started off as a water feature (and a lesson in the physics of cheap pumps), but now it's just there, gleaming gently. We've just picked a dozen oranges from the tree - considering that we do nothing to really maintain it.

 On Tuesday night Liz and I went to a classical concert at the Angel Place recital hall - this is the lane (China Lane, I think) outside. It was very interesting; a series called "Discovery", with the conductor, Richard Gill, discussing the piece in some detail first, with the aid of both a piano and fragments of the orchestra. The piece was Mahler's "Wanderer", three songs for baritone and orchestra. The orchestra was the Sydney Sinfonia, a training orchestra associated with, and mentored by, the Sydney Symphony. I'm no bigger fan of Mahler than I was previously, but I undeniably know more about what I'm not a fan of.

It was also interesting from the point of view of an educator, because the style was very much what I enjoy, which is a barrage of high speed information, but a well-illustrated barrage with both theory and practice. It wasn't to the taste of all the audience, though, because I heard one punter agreeing with another that the "first bit" had been incomprehensible.

Ability has taken over the whole of the building that we have been occupying for the past seven years now, and thanks to the corporate photos, I got to visit the second floor balcony (senior management). Reflected in the windows are the street trees and the UTS library opposite. I didn't quite manage the light, and the reflection from the upper two thirds has somewhat darkened the lower third.

Tempe Reserve at sunset - Liz is off running somewhere. This is the building site at Wolli Creek station. In the bottom photo you can barely make out the head and tail lights of the traffic on the Princes Highway. Members of the Tempe Motor Boat Association have turned in for the night. It's very tranquil.