Wentworth

Went for a little stroll out the back on Sunday to check out the new riverboat.  Here she is

nestled among the reeds and named The Wentworth.  The boat is designed to be wheelchair accessible and so the deck is flush with the wharf.  Wonderful.  As is this.

Little difficult to see... but there is a white egret on the flat-topped bollard.  We have never seen so many species of waterbirds as we have this year.  Looking back towards the town via the driveway between the Royal Hotel and Motel

and a close up of the 4WD.

I guess the car and the clothes found some mud.  Worth celebrating after 9 years of drought.

Slow flying fox

The quick brown fox survived the greedy red kangaroo and landed last Friday - at least that's when I got him upon my return from Albury.  I'm not sure if its a vixen or reynard.  I've been doing a little fox research.  At first he was to be Cadno which apparently is South Welsh for fox.  But then the girl / boy thing worried me and I realised that Samhain is the perfect name.  It is the Celtic festival held on 31 October - links to Halloween which has always been important to me.  The end of the Celtic year and the eve of the New Year.  Suits me just fine.  Samhain had a home (lair?) in my bedroom but I keep finding him all over the place - depends who comes into the gallery and who Steve shows him off to.
For those recently joining this blog... this fox was made and painted by Georgia and was purchased from her Etsy shop.  Look at Georgia's blog Verbosity (click on purple word or see side of this blog) to check it out.

A towns

Last week I went to Albury for training for work - Solution Focused Brief Therapy - and very good it was too.  Far too busy to take photos but did snap this Yabbie at Moulamein on the way home.  Mostly as I drove I was ruminating...

not unlike this cow.  This cow, and a few of similar ilk, lives at Longview Vineyard, a favourite haunt for Mum and me when I'm in Adelaide.  Good wine and truly superb tapas.

When in Adelaide week before last, I was sent on a mission by Steve.  Given it was at the Botanical Gardens, I was happy to accept.  Perhaps all Strelizias (????) look like this in bud, don't know, but it was pretty stunning.

This was my mission - to photograph the Gingko Gates.  I'm rather partial to gingkos - was very surprised to find them as street trees in Seoul a few years ago - apparently they survive pollution well.  Of course my camera, aka phone, died after a cuppla shots.  This is the Western Gate to the Gardens - more or less behind the Adelaide Hospital. The Gate leads into the Healing Garden, which is wonderful.  Not so sure of the Gate as a piece of art (which is why I was sent there).  It looks very Soviet in design to me, and doesn't sit well with my notion of gingko.  The detail, however, is exquisite.