Sunset

Trying to take photos from a moving car whilst going down a rather steep incline makes it tricky to get the sun before it enters the clouds. Failed dismally in that endeavour but still quite like the way this look moving down the Coalfields Highway towards Bunbury.

Today we'll look through the round window

I want a porthole! And what a homely glow looking in from dusk with the light shining from within

Not quite the beach shacks at Geelong

But that's what they reminded me of as the sun was setting from Paul's temporary accommodation in the heart of Bunbury

The Hunter Valley, including Branxton, is one of the oldest settled sites in NSW, after Sydney and Newcastle. Cruised around the cemetry after visiting Grandpa and took some photos of the cool headstones that can be found in a town which is known for having two cemetries and no hospital.

A last visit to Grandpa: We washed and polished him, took him new flowers and everyone got a little teary not knowing when we might get back to see him as a trio

The starlings who can now eat as many mandarines as they like

Not complete without a vaseful of Nanna's roses

Musical mandarine...or anything to try to stop the birds from getting at the fruit

The aloe that I potted for Nan that soon outgrew its home

The Cindy Tree: So named cos it's where my Nan's faithful dog, a cocker spaniel, was interred after she died. And one has to say that this little lime tree has certainly never looked back since Cindy joined it :)

Sadly none of these roses could make the trip to Newcastle, but they have given us many years pleasure and will hopefully do the same for the new owners.

19 Railway St: a retrospective

After 20 or so years in Branxton, Nanna is upping stumps and downsizing to a unit in Newcastle. so my next few photos will be a look at her home in the Hunter Valley.

They really would be at the bottom of the garden :)

A new development near my Mum's place in Qld and boy do I want to live here so that I could really have pixies at the bottom of the garden. Cos surely the developers wouldn't be misnaming their streets?