Armistice Day 11th November

This photo taken nearly one hundred years ago shows the Leeton boys in Cootamundra Military Camp before they left for Europe in 1915

11/11/14  Photo a day  a set

This is my set of Derwent watercolour pencils,I am by means an artist but I do like to dabble a bit and I have fun playing.

10/11/14   Photo a Day    I do this every day

 Every morning whilst I have my breakfast I watch QI on Iview so I at least start the day with a laugh!

9/11/14   Photo a Day  heck yes!

I have finally put this clock together, my friend Del gave it to me about 2 months ago (or maybe more) and after ordering the double sided adhesive from the US  I then put the project on hold but his morning I tackled it.Not a very good photo when I get it on the wall I will take a better one.

8/11/14   Photo a Day  a place

Keppel Street Bathurst looking down towards the Railway Station  with all the old light standards lined up like sentinels. Keppel Street has lots of cafes ,gift shops and the Library, Art Gallery and is a stone's throw from my home.

7/11/14  Photo a Day  on the floor

Always on the floor at my place Macy,Murphy and Millie , this is next to my chair at the computer desk and in a few minutes I will transfer to the sewing room ,as will my shadows.

6/11/14    Photo a Day  Made me smile today

Whenever my back is turned Murphy hops up onto the pot growing my Bay Tree and has a sun bake

5/11/14   Photo a Day  8 o'clock

4/11/14  Photo a Day  Can't live without

Books

 this bookcase contains my patchwork book and there are also three other bookcases in my small home.

3/11/14   Photo a Day   Weather

The forecast for this morning was 2 degrees but it is only 1 degree, not fair for November

2/11/14   Photo a Day    I saw this

These two paintings of Paddington terraces belonged to my Grandmother who gave one each to her two daughters . Mum gave me the one she owned about 25 years ago and I lent it to Aunty Kath so the paintings were reunited.

This morning I hung them at my place together again

1/11/14   Photo a Day   Something Blue

Table runner

31/10/14  Photo a Day  5 is for

Five Faberge plates in my china cabinet

30/10/14  Photo a Day   4 is for

four pictures in my spare room next to the design wall

29/10/14   Photo a day  3 is for

Three Wise Men

28/10/14  Photo a day  2 is for

The two plates On top of the china cabinet  used to be my mothers and I have known them all my life

26/10/14   Photo a day  Z is for..........

Zanzibar

My daughter recently spent a week on Zanzibar and she brought me this poster

27/10/14   Photo a Day  1 is for

I only possess one Elvis Presley teddy bear from Gracelands --TCB taking care of business

25/10/14  Photo a day   Y is for................

Yellow and blue are my comfort colours in patchwork , I made this small quilt at a Nancy Steptoe workshop at Hearts and Hands Patchwork Shop in Wentworth Falls in 1996.

24/10/14   Photo a day   X is for

X rays

You have to love Google images when all else fails!

 Did you know a Priest at St Stanislaus College Bathurst took the first Xray for medical purposes in Australia on the 21st September 1896.

23/10/14   Photo a Day   W is for

Witch

This Samantha the crafty witch but she has lost her work basket off the end of her broom

22/10/14   Photo a Day  V is for ........

My vacuum is fighting a losing battle with the hops from next doors Elm tree

21/10/14   Photo a Day   U is for........

Uncles

The four men in the back row of this photo are from left Uncle Jim,Uncle George,Uncle Ernie and Uncle Brian my mother's three brothers and her brother in law.

20/10/14  Photo a Day   T is for......

Twin nephews Isaac on the left and Joseph but  when they were younger  they did not look, as much alike.as they do now.

19/10/14   Photo a Day  S is for.......

Sheila Maura

My mother with Andrew,Louise and myself about 1954

18/10/14   Photo a Day   R is for.......

the Rileys

Jayne and Tom who are so good to me , this time next week I will be seeing them for the first time since May 

17/10/14  Photo a Day  Q is for ..........

Q is for Quilting friends, I pinched these photos from the Sydney Scquilters Blog

Brenda,Lissa and Pennie

16/10/14   Photo a Day   P is for .........

Patricia Anne aged 2

15/10/14   Photo a Day  O is for ........

the Ousbys

My sister Louise and her husband Joe

14/10/14   Photo a Day  N is for .........

This photo taken in 2001 includes one niece and many nephews as well as my own two children

13/10/14   Photo a Day  M is for........

Macy will be 14 years old in December 

Murphy and Millie enjoying the sun over the weekend

12/10/14   Photo a Day   L is for .........

Louise my younger sister

And aged about 2 

11/10/14   Photo a Day   K is for ..........

Kathleen Maria McDougall

My paternal Grandmother

10/10/14  Photo a Day  J is for ........

Judy and Joy

Two of my closest friends on a day out at Cowra Japanese Gardens about 10 years ago.

9/10/14   Photo a Day  I is for ..........

Iain Donald Hay McDougall

My father, I took this photo in Townsville in July 1996 which is the last time I saw him.

8/10/14  Photo a Day  H is for ........

Hamish Ousby in 1996

youngest son of my sister Louise

and these are his sons Jed and Leo

7/10/14  Photo a Day  G is for .........

George Doyle

Mum and her older brother in September 2000, the photo was taken in Mum's unit the last time they saw each other as Mum died the following March.

6/10/14  Photo a Day   F is for .......

Family

My small family taken at a wedding about nine  years ago

5/10/14  Photo a day   E is for .........

Ernie

Uncle Ernie was everyone's favourite uncle RIP

4/10/14   Photo a Day  D is for ....

My friend Dianne

3/10/14   Photo a Day  C  is for

Cathy my youngest sister

2/10/14   Photo a Day  B is For........

Brother

Twenty month old Trish holding her week old brother Tim

1/10/14  Photo a Day   A is for...........

This is Anne Maria my childhood friend , this photo was taken at Kurraba Point Wharf about 55 years ago.

The list for Photo a Day for October is the letters of the alphabet and then some numbers so I have decided to feature some friends and family starting with Anne Maria who lives in Brisbane now and I don't know her surname to try and find her.