Category Archives: Travel

Hunter Valley Seasons

“A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread–and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness– Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!” – Omar Khayyam The changing colours of vine leaves. The eternal circle of birth, ripening, harvesting, rest. Oh Hunter Valley, how you inspire me – your landscape, your […]

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I Heart The Rocks

“Wasn’t it extraordinary to be in the world right now, wandering around in a wonderful adventure!”  – Jostein Gaarder, ‘Sophie’s World’ My heart flutters every time I enter The Rocks. I spot a giant egg perched high above the little street where I normally park my car, and I smile and head over to Observatory […]

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More of Autumn Colours

‘Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.’ – Albert Camus I could not resist sharing more pictures of autumn leaves (and a few of my and my darling’s happy faces) with you. Witnessing these colours is a short-lived and precious event in our mostly evergreen Australian life. All of these images […]

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Yellow and Red and Brown

“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns” – George Eliot Every year around this time, when the air is crisp and clear, the nights are cool, the doona is out, we go to Mount Wilson in the […]

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