30/03/2022  Photo a Day A Stranger

    These two are almost strangers as I haven't seen them for 15 months.

 29/03/2022  Photo a Day  A Building

    Castle Howard in Yorkshire

 28/03/2022  Photo a Day  Shop Window

 27/03/2022  Photo a Day  A tree

   Luke sitting in a tree in a park at Marrickville

26/03/2022  Photo a Day Empty Road

    Keppel Street one of Bathurst's busiest streets photo taken early in the morning

 25/03/2022  Photo a Day  Graffiti

 24/ 03/2022 Photo a Day Sunbeams

When I was young and washing up was a Manuel task cutlery like this not used was called sunbeams and you didn’t have to wash sunbeams !!

 23/03/2022  Photo a Day  A Leaf

   This is a leaf from my Crepe Myrtle Black Diamond tree

 22/03/2022  Photo a Day  A Garden

   A small section of the gardens at Castle Howard in Yorkshire

 21/03/2022  Photo a Day  Colourful Place

      Berano , an island in Venice

 20/03/2022  Photo a Day  Weird

 A Carnivorous plant

 19/03/2022  Photo a Day  Grocery Store

 18/03/2022  Photo a Day  Flowers

This is one of my favourite hydrangeas

 

 17/03/2022  Photo a Day Boring

My mother always said that only boring people get bored and if you mentioned you were bored not only did you get a small lecture you received a job!

I have posted this photo taken in1863 as when I sit in my chair in the lounge room I see this house almost unchanged, different fence and the current owner has bars on all the windows.

Mother

 

It is twenty years ago today that my mother Sheila Maura died, I love this photo taken by my father in 1947

 16/03/2022   Photo a Day  A local cafe

  The Hub Cafe is just around the corner but I have to say there are four or five cafes within one block of my place and I hardly go to any of them

 15/03/2022  Photo a Day Playground

 14/03/2022  Photo a Day  Never photographed before

   This small area lies at the back of my house and can only be accessed through the garage , just enough room for a small shed, garbage bins and a clothes line

 13/03/2022  Photo a Day  Close up

 12/0/2022  Photo a Day  Insect

 11/03/2022  Photo a Day  A Good View

   The Great Australian Bight

 10/03/2022  Photo a Day  A Meal

 9/03/2022   Photo a Day  Car

   Molly is in the car with her seatbelt on ready to go out

 8/03/2022   Photo a Day  Sunset

   Sunset at Geraldton Western Australia in May 2018

 7/03/2022  Photo a Day  Bus Stop

 6/03/2022  Photo a Day  A Corner

My home on a corner

 5/03/2022  Photo a Day  Books

This bookcase in the sewing/computer room has all my quilting and cook books

Happy birthday

 

 Happy  birthday Timothy John

 4/03/2022  Photo a Day Nostalgic

 Very nostalgic for the good old days when I could cuddle my children long and often , now I have to make do with phone calls and the occasional visits.

 3/3/2022  Photo a Day  Skyline

 2/03/2022  Photo a Day  Something in my kitchen

 1/03/2022  Photo a Day  Weather

  This is the sky in Bathurst everyday but we are not getting any rain at all

 28/02/2022  Photo a Day  Favourite word

 I use this word so frequently I was given this sign

 27/02/2022 Photo a Day  Letter

  This is a copy of a letter sent to Governor Bligh by my ancestor Andrew McDougall 

 26/02/2022  Photo a Day  Starts with Z

My lovely Grand daughter Zoe

 25/02/2022  Photo a Day Starts with Y

Yungaburra in the Atherton Tablelands Queensland has a magnificent Memorial to our soldiers killed in Afghanistan

 24/02/2022  Photo a Day  Starts with X

   An XY Falcon same model and colour as our car bought in  1972 when they were superseded 

 23/02/2022  Photo a Day Starts with W

  The windows of the Begonia House in Machattie Park Bathurst which I visited on Monday, as usual the Begonias are beautiful.

 22/02/2022   Photo a Day Starts with V

Vegemite which Zoe used as a facial cream , this photo taken ten days ago

 21/02/2022  Photo a Day  Starts with U

Uncle George with my Mother (his sister) in 2000 the last time they would see each other

 20/02/2022  Photo a Day  Starts with T

                      Tim aged 4

   with his son Luke before Christmas

 19/02/2022  Photo a Day  Starts with S

 Sashiko , I like doing Sashiko embroidery which is Japanese , this one is called bunnies with waves and I think I will buy this one next from Shiboridragon in Brisbane.

 18/02/2022  Photo a Day Starts with R

     Rocking Horse

 17/02/2022  Starts with Q

I have been visiting Queensland for most of my life and I have and had many family members live there over the years.

My mother was also stationed there during the war in her role as a Signalwoman in the AWAS.