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 increase in his land to 300 acres. William developed a r
"To muse, to creep, to halt at will, to gaze ... such sweet wayfaring"
William Wordsworth
ROFL - what kind of stylish Australian dog is this???
ReplyDeleteJust been browsing through your blogs. They are very good and I enjoyed them. Your photography is terrific and I'd love to know how to eep colour in one area only, I guess it is done with Photo Shop.
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Hi Diane, thanks for visiting. Yes colouring is done with photoshop. I duplicate the image in a second layer, convert that layer to B&W then erase the bit I want to colour.
ReplyDeleteAnother way is use a freehand tool to circle the part of the image you want to keep coloured and copy it to your clipboard. Then convert the image to B&W and paste the colour bit back on top. This method is not as accurate.
Such a great commentary on the previous post! Love it ...
ReplyDeleteYou do have some strange animals down there at the other end of the world,
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