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Day never to forget
People gathered of different cultures, different colors, hair straight, curly, many were children, many were old. We were all dressed for the outdoors on an overcast Sunday morning in June, with the…
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Bushwalkers
Went for a walk in the woods last weekend, not far from home. It was led by flora expert John Hodge and fauna expert Alex Dudley. It was part of a rare…
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Sunday afternoon
A walk around the paddocks this afternoon. Click on any image to display gallery.
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Christmas Eve, 2015
Fractious weather, and a welcome cool change on this Christmas Eve, 2015. Click on any image to enter gallery. 12►
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Woods wander
Ninety-six degrees and a walk in the forest this afternoon. Click on any image to enter the gallery
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Walk to the mailbox
Our mailbox is a mile, or 1.64 kilometers up the road from our gate, which is .7 kilometers from our house. We have mail delivery courtesy of our postie with his car-full…
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Reflections on being a regional journalist
A few months ago, I sat down to interview World War II veteran Keith Anderson and his wife in their Inverell home. It was on my list of stories that week which would…
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Role model
The little girls look up to her, and her talent. She knew how to sit quietly, patiently, for the time it took Mum to make up her eyes, like Elsa’s from Frozen. She stood…
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New eye on the evening
I brought home an old/new Nikon lens from my trip back to Chicago to see my family last week. I feel rich with this addition, and took it out far a walk around…
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Of wonder and want
I just returned from six action-packed days back home in Chicago where I touched base with my family, and caught up with four of my oldest friends, and discovered a valuable new-ish friendship…
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Neighbors
I stopped to see these heifers and steers that I pass each morning and evening on the road yesterday afternoon. They were pretty curious, unlike the stunning purebred Brahmans up the road…
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Solid
She is top in her class, and gets guff about it from the other kids, but she ignores them. She runs faster than the fastest boy. Her last hardest time was when…
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Two and a half hours at the show
It was all about the kids on Saturday at the Inverell Show, from the cattle to horse events, puppet shows, pig racing and the motocross bikes that had the boys, young and…
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Wet woods
It is dry again. Hot, but thankfully not that blistering ridiculousness we had a few weeks ago before the rain. I went outside tonight and scented smoke on the wind. I was…
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Today we went to the show
We went down to the Bundarra Show this morning. The poultry were back after many years, and there were some fine birds there. The showjumping was horrible and we saw two riders…
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A wonderful gift
My camera is acting up again, and tonight, in an attempt to clean it, I accidentally smudged the CMOS sensor with grease or something. I’m more than a little cranky with myself.…
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Country resting place, gallery
I spent part of New Year’s Day at the Delungra cemetery. It was kind of a fluke. I was passing on the gravel road, and decided to pay a visit. I had not…
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Runaway
For a few minutes, the vaulted ceiling of the station, the kind light, made her feel everything would be all right. If she made it to DC, her grandmother would be happy…
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