More catch up...Beautiful Skies/ Easter

Just love the Autumn sky... every day I delight in changing cloud patterns

 This astounding cloud formation reminded me of an Angel  ... an Easter Angel

Jane , Ali and Hannah came over for Easter Sunday dinner and we watched my Galapagos movie.

Disaster struck for Thomas when he flew his drone up to the top gate at dusk to greet Jane and Ali.
It ended up stuck high in the gum tree. Needless to say he was very upset as retrieval seemed to be almost impossible.
Next day we tried to reach it via a ladder on top of John's car and an improvised long long handled saw...but were unsuccessful...was still too high to reach.

Ronnie (who agists his horses on our place ) offered to have a go at shooting the branches holding the drone. We took him up on the offer and all watched expectantly as he took aim. He managed to hit some branches but the Drone remained out of reach.

Fortunately the breeze came up and later that afternoon John and Tom saw that the Drone had dropped a little bit and was possibly reachable...So Hannah and I held out a blanket to catch it as John and Tom pulled at branches...and it dropped and was retrieved unscathed... What an adventure..

Catch up highlights- Le weekend

Well so much has been happening each week I will just give the highlights..

Just after we returned from Galapagos...Cygnet had it's 2nd French festival "Le Weekend". The french explorers were the first Europeans to set foot here...and had it not been for the French Revolution...we could have been colonized by the French...hence the festival.
We set up a French book display out front of the shop...and I enjoy sitting knotting and chatting with passers by.

 The town turns Blue , White and Red.

Peter George our local organiser(former ABC Foreign Correspondent) takes a call from ABC Hobart and gives a fabulous overview of the weekend's events.
After the call, I laugh and comment that he is certainly a pro when it comes to promoting the event... He laughs and says he could probably do it in his sleep!!

 Jane and Ali come into town all French-ified

 Helen lefts rip with the French national anthem at the opening ceremony.

 Down at Community Garden a group of people have recreated a scale model of the original French  explorers at Garden at Rescherche Bay.

Good turn out at a little concert by local group Rescherche Babes

Sunday is a chilly wet one..
Tom is still keen to take part in Tour de Cygnet...I decide to sit it out this year.

Unfortunately Tom has bike issues and gets a lift back in a support Ute.

This is a shot of me taken by Events Tasmania photographer..
Goldie got lots of comments

At the closing ceremony... the Empress Josephine made a surprise visit...

(Not sure who she was...but spoke with a lovely French accent... That is Andrew Blaxland (Posie's husband escorting the Empress)

A lovely way to finish off the weekend.