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Art down the road

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 I saw this (I suspect paywalled) article in the Age last week and recognised the owners of the property as the couple who set up the "Outsider" exhibition (see also the last section of this post) in Flinders Lane a year or so ago.  It turned out the house was open for inspection on 16 May so I wandered 2km down to (upper) St Kilda to check it out. As I left Sandra was sitting on a neighbour's wall so I wished her luck with the sale, and we had a very pleasant (as always) conversation.  She commented that they had owned the house for 38 years and before that it had been a Buddhist ashram for 40 years.  The Buddhists had a philosophy of never turning anyone away so Sandra and Andrew found people knocking on the door (or climbing the trees) for several years until the change of ownership became fully known in that community. A street view of the house and the agent's sign. In the back yard a wall has been enhanced by these eyes painted by Rone one of the bigger names...
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Docklands to NGV

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 We wanted to return a book to Melbourne Library and it seemed like a good idea to drop it off at the Docklands Branch and then walk via some sculptures to the art book sale at the NGV. The first sculpture is Shadow Trees by Sally Smart .  See this also. Very close to the end of the tram track! Almost under the trees was this Harley.  A very smooth looking machine with no visible chrome.   Cranes further down the wharf. Bolte Bridge in the background. An abseiler comes to ground. A wide view of Victoria Harbour, with fisherpersons on the jetties. Heading back into town. No information about this work, anywhere near it,  It is online however . Ditto.  This does not appear in the official list of artworks, although it is on the map thereof and a list of them in wikipedia  (ctrl+f is your friend). Obviously a Wabbit, but officially this . There was a tatt parlour along the promenade offering what seemed to be pretty basic items,  Still asking at...
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Bobble balloon and Windsor

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 I had seen a post on FB announcing that 4 hot air balloons were planning to land in Fawkner Park on the morning of 14 May and some were already down when we walked out there around 0800 hours. As I hade hoped, one of them was the bobble hat balloon.  It is promoting the Big Freeze event focussed on the G later in the season . The pilot lit up the burner to amuse the school kids. The kids (obfuscated to stuff up AI face capture) went to help collapse the balloon. And to peer inside when they had got it  down Later in the day we went to follow up on some places in Windsor, after advice from one of the concierges at 505 (who lives nearby).  Here is our route (excluding the tram ride back from ALDI. The structure of the rest of this post is landmarks first followed by street art (in the order we found it in both cases).  We found this, which we hadn't noticed before as we walked down St Kilda Rd. Older cottages with new stuff at the back. I have never heard of West...
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