I simply must get myself a decent camera.....not sure where to start but please endure these mobile pics for the meantime.  They dont even get close to capturing the beauty of the landscape we drove through on the weekend to Ormiston Gorge.  This is Namatjira country.  I have stared at and loved one his paintings since I was a little girl.  My Grandma, such an enigmatic woman, had an original painting of his, it was only small, and I am not even sure of how she came to have such a work of art as I am sure she had never been to Central Australia.  But she was full of wonderful stories waiting to be told.  I only wish I was old enough to hear them then, and had given more time to hear them when I was a teenager, before she left us.  But I digress.  That picture was amazing.  So subtle yet so full of life and colour.  I loved it.  Then driving through this countryside on the weekend my eyes were wide with excitement.  Ever corner we turned offered a new jewel to behold.  I couldnt possibly capture it's essence.  I wish I was artistic.  I wish I could paint, or draw...or even take a decent photograph.  I am working on it lol.  But here is the best I have.  I love the clarity of the sky and how those mountains in the background look almost superimposed on the landscape.  As we rounded the bend where this beauty revealed itself it took my breath away. 
I cant help thinking that painting has something to do with why we are here....