You know you are in the country when tyres feature in the garden and the chook shed (chicken coop) has been repurposed at least two or three times.
We passed through Bakers Swamp without noticing anything. Then reached our last dot on the map for this trip - Larras Lee and saw this. The roadside monument says: In Memory of WILLIAM LEE (1794 - 1870) of "Larras Lake" a pioneer of the sheep and cattle industry and first member for Roxburgh under responsible government (1856 - 1859). This stone was erected by his descendants. --- 1938 --- This is a repost from a few days ago. Thinking I would use this for this week’s Taphophile Tragics post I dug a little further into William Lee’s story, it’s a very colonial Australian one. William was born of convict parents, living his childhood years around the Sydney region. In his early 20s he was issued with some government cattle, recommended as a suitable settler and granted 134 acres at Kelso near Bathurst. He was one of the first in the area and did well. A few years later he was granted a ram and an inc...
That is so "Australian".
ReplyDeleteYes. Could not agree more - quintessial aussie!!
ReplyDeleteI burst out laughing: the down-at-heel-ness of the entire structure is so delightful.
I nearly mentioned tyre gardens in the dunny picture but I think it is more like a wheel rim - which is a first for me.
This is a corker, Joan.
Great series! Fantastic captures and details too.
ReplyDeleteFantastic! That is astonishing.
ReplyDeleteRe the "tyres":
When we moved to our present location it was in pretty bad shape. I've lost the pictures to a dead hard drive but I had a series of photographs of all the various kinds of tires/tyres that were left here. I comforted myself by thinking of them as some kind of art installation. They were kind of cool looking....but I was really glad when they were all gone.
Yipes PJ, I'm glad you didn't keep the tyres ... or worse yet you could have turned them into tyre swans!
ReplyDelete