OUR MARCH HOLIDAY.

 As we had appointments for young brother in March we decided to make it a holiday as well.  We'd seen a brochure on the Snowy Valley Sculpture Trail and decided to include it in our time away.  Also, I think I may have said in a recent post that my uncle was having his 100th birthday party too.  We spent the first 2 nights in Gundagai, a town on the Hume Highway in N.S.W. as it was close to the trail we wanted to explore.  Oh, there was so much to see, so this post may be a bit photo heavy and only a bit of what we explored.  There will be a few more posts.

This could be a rather fun event, so we may keep the date in mind.
It was a sign near the lovely old timber rail bridge you can just see in the background at Gundagai.

The photos above and below you may have to click on to enlarge.
They are a loan chimney above and below is a tumbledown stone cottage.

First stop was a small town called Adelong which we know well.  I forgot to mention that we actually lived in this area between 1980 and 1986 after we lost our business.  

The town sign.

A sculpture of a bull.

The above caption tells what is below.

Some of the pieces I've not taken photos of the plaques, and I've also misplaced the brochure, so just enjoy the journey with us.

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I think they are pears.

A mural on the side of one of the shops.

Look up between the trees and you may spot the gumnut caps.

Schism, so the plaque reads.

Next town we visited was actually where we lived.  In the photo below is an APPLE way off in a paddock.  There used to be one close to the road, but they suffered terrible bush fires a few years back and it was destroyed and someone popped one here.

And now here is a very large apple peeler.
There were many apple orchards and other fruit grown here.
Still is, though we didn't think quite as many.

One of many sculptures with caption below.

Don't you love the name of this store?

Can you see what is peeking out from this hole?

And yes, this is the lovely town of Batlow.
Below is one item we processed at the Cannery, which is no more.
I used to work there.

Do you notice something on this sign which is significant to me?

OK, enough from me today, but as I said earlier there will be more to come and again, they will be photo heavy.

Having a lot of trouble typing due to very painful chilblains at the moment due to the cold weather.

Hope you enjoy and I so want to get back into my blog and I realise I've lost so many followers after my last post.

Take care all and hugs,

Susan.

NOVEMBER HOLIDAY PART 2

 Well, after another hectic month and another trip away for 2 family matters and all the difficulties I'm having with Windows 11, I've decided I miss blogging and being able to catch up with my blog pals I've made over the years. Too much change has left me bewildered.😕

After the last post about Hill End & Sofala, our next part of the adventure took us down the Lachlan Valley Sculpture Trail and onto The Utes in the Paddock.  I've picked out some of both my favourite photos, plus some of the better ones to show.  I didn't get the plaques about each sculpture, so just browse what I've shown.

Here we go....................

K posing with the giant Goanna

Amazing through the windscreen, so not the best.

Can't remember what this was.

This one was call "Bird in Hand" made from what looked like large chain links.

Another that I do know but can't remember at this moment.

Brumby's Run.

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Not too sure what the 2 below were called.

Next, we adventured further to do the Utes in the Paddock towards Condobolin.  These are Holden Utes from different years found in a paddock.  They were removed to here, and a lovely visitor centre built recently with a cafe as well. I'm just showing a few of what is on display

An overall photo I tried to capture before it rained again.

EMUTE.

MUTE UTE

UTE OPIA

UTEZILA

UTE OF ARMS

There were more, but my photos weren't the best for these. 

A couple more photos, just because.

Pelicans, ducks and other water birds on what I think is a billabong of the Lachlan River.

The landscaping in progress with a rotunda and gardens being established.

Oh..............and of course I loved the beautifully sculptured goanna.

OK, I'll leave it at that for now and this time hopefully post again on Thursday/Friday before we have a hectic weekend with car club.  It's pick newsletters up from printer, fold, label & then distribute as many as possible Saturday morning, then post the remainder.  Sunday is an outing with said club, so maybe I'll have photos for another post later this month.

Our very recent trip also took up lots of our time for my younger brother, but we did manage to do a few things for ourselves as well.  One of these was catching up friends in Bathurst/Orange area, then a BIG birthday party.................my Uncle turned 100!!!!!!!!!  We came home quite exhausted due to it being very hot over many days and also doing some work for brother at his unit.  Enough, I must get some things done instead of sitting here in the study.

Hope you all have a great week, take care and hugs from down under.

Susan.