tie a...

...yellow pink, purple and green ribbon to the heel tab of a boot and a nearby blipper is guaranteed to ask' 'may I take a photo please'?

These are  Rossi boot (one of very few, perhaps only? still actually made in Australia) on the feet of Patsy Durack and spotted at the local supermarket checkout.
Australians will know the Durack name as that of an Irish family that came to Australia in the mid 1850s and in northern Western Australia were the Kimberley's pioneering pastoralists droving cattle from Queensland to the East Kimberly's establishing Argyle Downs Station.
Patrick Durack's granddaughters Mary and Elizabeth made their names as an author and artist.
And as serendipity would have it, my little library of books to take on The Ghan railway trip in August includes a 1981 copy of 'Ernestine Hill's 'The Territory' and the 'decorations'  (illustrations) are by Elizabeth Durack.

Brilliant....now that is a great blip day!