Yesterday I visited Marysville, a small town less than 100km north-east of Melbourne, that was demolished in the Black Saturday bushfires. Almost everything in this town was burnt to the ground, including one of my favourite galleries: Bruno's Art & Sculpture Garden. Bruno has plenty of photographs on his own website where you can see the extent of the devastation - here are my shots from yesterday, to show you his wonderful work in restoring the garden. The gallery building is in the process of being rebuilt, so I don't yet have any shots of that.
There are still very few buildings in Marysville (only 14 of over 400 survived the fires). I think its going to take them some time to get that lovely community back up and running. However, there are a number of businesses now operating, so take the time to drive up there and show them your support. Even if you just stop in for a coffee, then drive on to see Bruno's beautiful Sculpture Garden, that would at least be something!
A little far for me to visit (I'm in the UK!) but it looks wonderful. Thanks for posting, came here through your flickr stream.
ReplyDeleteThank you for visiting Michelle :)
ReplyDelete