Home for Christmas

There is a blue wren haven, and a tree I planted called HAKEA LAURINA, and both are flourishing at  AVONDALE, Lenswood. (By the way my name for that tree is “the pin-cushion tree”, from early days of walking (dawdling) to Black Forest Primary School, along streets lined with them ....)

The time came for us to move back home to Lenswood again, and I finished this painting .... begun in hope in the tiny back room of our Hahndorf rental .... on a magical night back in my Lenswood studio, and it was .... Christmas eve!

The “Christmas tree” in my picture is in the form of a Croquembouche tower (a French celebration cake made of custard-filled profiteroles and spun sugar), which I also attempted to bake as part of our family feast (not very successfully either). Perhaps it also appears as a pile of rocks heaped up to form a kind of biblical altar in the wilderness ... a  “marker” place to give grateful thanks.