Annie's Blog

after admiring these gorgeous kangaroo paws... and after a lovely warm welcome and sitting around doing nothing under the wisteria watching one of the resident cute cats.... watching the world go by we headed off for a walk to see what was happening down by the river the Yarra River meanders past here usually, but lately has been in flood...water had been up over where I was standing taking this photo apparently... debris washed up there are lots of kids and families come here on a hot day but unfortunately a 19 year old who wasn't a swimmer drowned here the weekend before the floods. Very sad. It took the police divers 24 hours to find his body after he went missing. trees also succumbed to the floods the next weekend a very pretty area usually, but a bit muddy when I was there think this one might have been there for a while... a sit to sit on while down at the wetlands beside the river. Apparently they have been dry for about the last 15 years ... pity the thistles and algae ha...

it has been a busy but interesting couple of days....from a powerful art exhibition at my sister's library in Melbourne, of art works arising out of the ashes of the bush fires of two years ago... photos.. glass windows textile "chooks" a train rumbles over the old bridge past the library we also went down to see a movie in an older part of the city... had dinner out locally one night home to my sister's on her delightful country roads and a delicious home made chicken pie...yumm.... and seeing the possums come down to feed...can you see the baby on the mother's back? and today I boarded a bus from there...that took me all the way to the airport...past a circus! decorated shopping centres churches... and wide open plains and paddocks... men doing construction work... wish they had a train to the airport down there (there seems to be something on from 4th to 14th March, wonder what it is) some of the many planes that I saw while waiting for mine... and back to my ...