Connecting our Bush

Creating wildlife corridors on the Range

• Hear renowned ecologist Professor Henry Nix present the latest science on landscape connectivity
• Join Susie Duncan from Hinterland Bush Links in a community discussion on creating bush links across the Blackall and Conondale Ranges

• When:  7pm Wednesday 14 March 2012
• Where:  Verandah Room, Maleny Community Centre, 23 Maple St, Maleny

All welcome

Gold coin donation at door

Please register with Barung Landcare 5494 3151 or click here

For more information, phone Susie Duncan 5429 6622

Visit our webpage:  www.hinterlandbushlinks.org

Hinterland Bush Links is hosted by

 Friday 2 March 8am Little Yabba Park Bushcare Group

This group meets on the first Friday of the month at 8am. Members are restoring vegetation along the banks of Little Yabba Creek. New members welcome.

Contact Susie Duncan 5429 6622.

Sunday 4 March 9am Hinterland Bush Links – Roving Restorers
Booloumba Ck– join us for a couple of hours planting & weeding followed by a walk & picnic in the Conondale National Park.

For info and registration, contact Barung Ph. 5494 3151.

Wednesday 14 March 7pm “Connecting our bush” presentation
Maleny Community Centre Verandah Room – Professor Henry Nix will be providing the big picture on landscape connectivity and why it is so critical for our wildlife. This will be followed by a discussion on creating wildlife corridors across the Blackall and Conondale ranges. Gold coin donation.

Please register at Barung Ph. 5494 3151.

Lots of launches and parties ensued:  Steven Lang did the honours in Maleny at Rosetta Books; Owen Doogan (Secretary, Rail Tram and Bus Union) set it on its merry way in Brisbane;  I addressed the Friends of the Ipswich Library at their annual literary luncheon… many more, and more to come. Exciting times!

Now, I am busy researching and writing for Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service – preparing text and images for interpretive signage around SEQ.  It keeps me on my toes, and is a steep learning curve, but nice to know my Environmental Science Degree was not for nothing.  If you happen to be at Lake McKenzie on Fraser Island, check out the fantastic new signs.  They are my work (with a little help from the QPWS team, of course).

web: dalelornajacobsen.com

“I like to read the chosen piece many times and then meditate upon it before I begin to paint.  I don’t see my paintings as illustrations but rather a bouncing off from a text in whatever way it pleases me”.

“In 2009 I used “Invisible Cities” by Italo Calvino.  This small fabulous post-modern work led me to paint fifty seven canvases.

Each city in Calvino’s book seems to undergo constant deformation despite the almost chaotic enumeration of it’s features. The end result is that the city’s image is vague and unclear. I liked this ambiguity, it’s open-endedness and felt I could explore the impression of it in my own way.

ZIRMA (below) includes memories of many black people, lunatics, girls with pumas, dirigibles flying in all directions and undergroung trains.

Stephen Graham, The Gentle Art of Tramping

Grant Meyer is a local photographer who has a gift for making photos tell a story.  These are just  some of them:

“While working with Barung Landcare, one of the places we worked at was the Book Farm out at Reesville.  At smoko and lunch we would sit in an open rustic cabin and enjoy the surroundings – The rustic remnants created by man can sometimes be just as appealing as the beauty nature creates”

“Forest Elder.  At first when I took this photo I didn’t notice the face.  Upon viewing the shot after work I noticed him looking right at me;  I see and Indigenous Elder keeping an eye on the land, making sure we are looking after it.”

“The Platypus.  One wonders how these unusual creatures were created but to see them in rivers and dams will always be rewarding to me; from Maleny through to the Obi Obi Valley they are thriving!”

“I believe I don’t have to go looking for it – nature just seems to come to me.”

Words by Grant Meyer – Mob: 0404 606 677

Watercolour is such a moving and exciting medium.

As an artist, I create the mood and the poetry through minimal strokes of the brush. I paint the essential simplified form to portray what I want to say.

Less is more.

I am really enjoying the journey.  Through mastery of her chosen medium and impressionistic style, Diane creates mystery and intrigue that invites speculation about the subject matter.  Diane has won many awards, including the St George’s Award (Champion) 2008 and First in Watercolour 2009, Maleny Art Awards.  The success of her classes and workshops in Maleny has encouraged Diane to broaden her horizons by offering tutored painting workshops in Australia and overseas.

www.dianesomerscook.com

By Edith-Ann Murray

Mirella specialises in watercolour cards, each card an original painting which can be framed as an individual gift.  Below is just a sample of her fine work.

These gorgeous watercolours  cards can be purchased at Rosetta’s Books, Maple Street, Maleny or by contacting her at jcundill@aapt.net.au