‘Winter’ is a Victorian era sculpture located in the Royal Botanic Gardens. It is one of the ‘Four Seasons’ statues that adorn the Palace Gardens Steps. They were shipped from Italy in 1883 from the studio of Charles Francis Summers, an Australian-born sculptor living in Rome. The statues were originally located here but then were separated and distributed around the gardens where some lost vital body parts and adornments. Australian sculptor Jacek Luszczyk restored them by recreating the missing parts and the restored statues were unveiled in their original location in 2010.
A brilliant blue winter’s sky above the Conservatorium Gate of the Royal Botanic Gardens, close to Macquarie Street and beside the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. The surrounding bushes in bloom are adding a bit of colour at this time of year.
Beautiful autumn colour in Chalmers St, Redfern.
Most native to Sydney foliage is evergreen, but these street plantings of deciduous trees add lots of colour and enable winter sun through.
Purists mightn’t like them, but I love it!
Any opinions?
One of the fashion dictums my dear mother adhered to was “Blue and green should never be seen without a colour in-between”. Another was the view that black clothes were only worn by Mediterranean widows – “widows’ weeds”.
And mum was from Melbourne, a city where Henry Ford’s edict on cars “you can have any colour as long as it’s black” pevails with respect to satorial elegance.
These days Sydney also tends to think it’s Melbourne (or London), as a stint on the railway station this morning once more demonstrated.
Except for the rebel in the pink jacket and multi-coloured scarf who apparently refuses to read the memo!