I just don’t know how the afternoon could have been any more
lovely! The sun shone down, the skies were lightly scattered with clouds. The park
was crowded with the Easter Weekend holidaymakers. It was all to gorgeous for
words!
After walking around in the gardens for a while, I decided
to make my way down to the opera house. The roofline always intrigued me. It
makes me thing of either seashells or sails – though it could easily be both.
One thing that is not apparent from most of the pictures you see is that they
are not a solid mass of white!
They are made-up of all these tiles that create this amazing
almost art deco fish scale pattern. It is really an amazing building. They
really must be experienced to be appreciated.
One of the whimsical surprises that I came across was this
playful little satyr tucked-away into an alcove near the entry to the opera
house. Having acted in my fair share of Shakespeare, I could not help but thing
“It’s Puck!” though, of course, A
Mid-Summer Night’s Dream is a play and not an opera, but, still!
I was drawn by the impish grin that is at the same time both
innocent and evil – ‘impish’ would be the word I would use, but as there is no
other word to describe something actually found on an imp, I guess that isn’t very
helpful. That would be like my describing a Honda to you as being somewhat
automobile-like
One of the delightful surprises of the afternoon was coming
across this family outing. It was so cute! I was walking along the sea wall
that runs along the bay between The Queen’s Chair and the opera house. It was a
really pleasant surprise.
I must have been right that it was a cute sight. Moments after
I found them swimming along, about half a dozen little girls (that I assume were
Japanese from the hello kitty backpacks) were squealing and pointing their
cameras over the wall.
Yes, I guess everyone thought it was a lovely day for an outing!
Wherever you are this morning I hope that you have had an
adventure this weekend!
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