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One of a series of Serious Gentleman sculptures decorating the NSW Department of Lands. Cunningham was selected by Joseph Banks as King's Botanist to the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, and arrived in Australia 1813 to start collecting.
The "ideal library". A small shopfront library with exquisite design and planning. Many, many innovative features. Co-located with a commercial bookshop and cinema.
Bottom left: the end of a runway at Sydney Airport; middle ground: bulk container terminal and oil storage facility; oil tankers and container ships moving around the bay. Outside the headlands is the Pacific Ocean.
Chrysolopus spectabilis on an acacia.
I found this interesting snippet of history while searching for the name of this weevil:
"The Australian Weevil was collected on Cook's voyage in 1770 by Joseph Banks. It was the first scientifically described Australian insect (Australian Museum, 2004)."
Botany Bay Plantation was privately owned until the death of its owner, Margaret Morgan Pepper, who left it to the residents of South Carolina in her will. The beach is amazing - words don't describe the beauty of its natural landscape.
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SERVING SPOON:
This serving spoon belonged to Elizabeth Parke Firestone, who owned some of the greatest pieces of French silverware in the world. This particular piece has a beautiful leaf detail on the spoon side and has a stem winding around the handle in the very organic manner. The level of detail and craft taken into this piece is extraordinarily accurate. The veins are present ans there seems to be a presence of buds on the stem.