20160323 – Friday – Easter – Mike Barr’s demonstration of his painting

Today is Easter Friday. I thought about going to Easter Camp, but in the end, I didn’t because it all seemed to hard. I went to Vili’s and typed up Neville Clark’s notes on Revelation and his first study. I am really enjoying his talk.  It is good for me to type it up as well, because it gets it into my mind. I want to mark it up as well in “Fay’s Brain.” I have Scripture files there, and I transfer the NIV into it and then I can insert the notes that I make in between the actual Bible verses. I like it wen I can read a verse and immediately read my notes on that verse. It is similar to marking up my Bible, but in “Fay’s Brain,” I can type it up and I am much better at typing than I am at writing.

I have a lot of photos in dropbox that I need to transfer into my external hard drive today as well. I have used up all my allotted space in drop box, so I need to free up some space.

After I had finished all my chores, I drove to Goolwa to attend a painting demonstration that  Mike Barr, who is Jan O’Hara’s brother and a brilliant artist, is putting in a gallery there. I have been watching his paintings for some time on facebook. He has two main styles of painting, one is “rainy day” scenes of the streets of Adelaide or Melbourne, and then sunny day scenes of Adelaide beaches. His beach paintings are okay, but his rainy day paintings are simply brilliant. It took me a while to find the correct gallery, but I finally located it and went up the stairs to a gallery section and sat down on a chair in a semi-circle with other interested parties. Mike was painting a “sunny day” seaside painting. It was good, but pretty simple. My hopes that I would see him paint a “rainy day” picture did not eventuate, which was a bit sad, because I had really wondered how he could possibly make his rainy day scenes so “real.”

After Mike had finished his demonstration, and spoke to many of his “fans,” he finally turned to me and said, “Fay Berry,I would know that face anywhere.” I was interested that he had said that, since we have never met each other before, except on facebook. It is really quite remarkable how one can become really good friends on facebook and yet never meet each other. Clive Parsons, from UK, is also one of my “best friends,” and yet I have never met him either. Amazing really. We had a photo taken together so that I could send a photo to his sister Jan in WA. Then I left since it was getting late, I headed for home. I rang up the Wurfels, hoping I might be able to drop in on them before I drove back to Adelaide, but they were not home. I wanted to tell them about my meeting with Max Wurfel in Pinnaroo on my way to Sydney.

I rang up Una to ask her if she had seen Jeff B. lately because our daughter Helen was planning on coming to Adelaide for Easter and wanted to catch up with us and as usual had not been able to get in touch with Jeff. Una had not seen Jeff but said she would let me know if he turned up at her place. Una said that she and Don had spent the day at  Hahndorf and had been to Hans Heysen’s place to show some visitors they have over from Perth. They had also been to the German Arms for lunch so that their visitors could have an authentic “german meal.”  Now she was exhausted and they were going to have a nap before dinner.

I too was feeling very tired and as soon as I arrived home from Goolwa, I had a nap as well.