17/12/2016   Photo a Day  Fruit

Yummy  locally grown cherries

16/12/2016   Photo a Day  Breakfast

Very dull this morning Sultana Bran and Orange juice

15/12/2016   Photo a Day   Tree

The tree in my courtyard shades my house very well in the summer months

14/12/2016  Photo a Day   Fun

Monday Patchwork Group celebrated Christmas this week.

13/12/2016   Photo a Day  I hear

The sound of summer in Australia

12/12/2016   Photo a Day  Decoration

Some more of my Santa collection these ones are the Jim Shore Santas

11/12/2016   Photo a Day  Jump

This train is called the Bathurst Bullet because it runs a daily service to Sydney and return and in about half an hour I will jump aboard the a day in Sydney to celebrate my Grandson's birthday.

That is the only jumping I do these days.

12/12/2016   Photo a Day  Simple

This hexagon quilt is really very simple just strip pieced ,I made this one from a jelly roll.

9/12/2016   Photo a Day  joy is......

 Having good friends such as Judy

Happy Birthday Little Man

Today my Grandson Luke turns one and I am going to see him on Sunday.Yippee!

8/12/2016   Photo a Day    Something Red

I have a collection of Santas these are the ones that play music

7/12/2016   Photo a Day   Outside

The Hydrangeas love the dappled shade of my courtyard

Another birthday

Today Millie turns five today

Iain Andrew McDougall

My brother Andrew b.6/12/1953  d.30/09/1977

This photo was taken at the park in Mosman in 1954 and is Mum with Andrew,Louise and myself.

6/12/2016   Photo a Day  Bookshelf

These are my patchwork and quilting books

5/12/2016   Photo a Day  Beauty

A small part of the gardens at  the Palace of Versailles, I much preferred the gardens to inside the Palace which was too rich and over ornate in my opinion.

4/12/2016   Photo a Day  Selfie

Photo a Day

I have been very slack with my photo a day not posting since October but  the best laid plans of mice and men!!!!!!!!!
I have decided to just restart at the beginning of December

1/12/2016   Photo a Day   lunch

Chilli crab cooked by Steven

2/12/2016   Photo a Day I enjoy

I enjoy catching up with cousins as our family is very spread out

from left Greg Doyle (Brisbane), Jayne Riley (Gawler SA, )Christopher Boswell  (Wagga Wagga) ,Paul Doyle (Picton NSW) Bronwyn Chapell (Denliquin NSW) and myself from Bathurst.There are another thirteen spread all over Australia.

3/12/2016   Photo a Day   Morning Sky

Early morning in north west NSW

The end of a generation

Kathleen Mary Boswell nee Doyle 23/02/1926 -21/11/2016

This is a very young Aunty Kath my mother's younger sister and the last sibling of the five Doyles of that generation.She has not been very well for a while but she did leave suddenly last night.

She was a wife, a mother, an aunt, a grandmother , a great grandmother,a

bookkeeper and an excellent golfer.

She is now resting in peace with her late husband Uncle Ernie

At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month