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Rural delights


The Mudgee area is noted for its fine wool, beef, fat lambs, cereal crops, lucerne, vegetables, vineyards and honey. There are also horse, sheep and cattle studs. Someone mentioned a cheese factory near the town so after a bit of a wander around we headed off to find it -- will show you that tomorrow. Some posts on Paula's blog inspired me to take the shot below.


Temperature still 39C. Is it ever going to cool down??
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  1. JulieDecember 12, 2009 at 8:49 AM

    That is a simply gorgeous shot of the mare and foal, Joan. The colours of the shot are lovely.

    However, one wonders what on earth there is for them to eat!

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  2. freefallingDecember 12, 2009 at 9:06 AM

    I might have asked you this before -
    have you been to the Wellington Caves near Mudgee - they have a really cool sculpture at the turn-off.

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  3. ABDecember 12, 2009 at 4:56 PM

    Not just human infants like their mother's touch!

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  4. Joan ElizabethDecember 12, 2009 at 5:15 PM

    Julie, I was thinking that too.

    Letty, no you haven't asked it before but quite a while ago I did a couple of weekend trips to Wellington. There's a photo of the sculpture here

    AB, yes and hide behind their mother's skirt, this shot was a little out of focus but I could not get another as the little one kept hiding behind Mum.

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  5. MartinaDecember 12, 2009 at 9:53 PM

    I really like the first photo - the partitioning in brown, green, dark blue and light blue lines from the bottom up is nice ... you have many of those :-)

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  6. UnknownDecember 13, 2009 at 6:26 AM

    Is there any breeze at least? Love the colours on the horses shot.

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  7. Joan ElizabethDecember 13, 2009 at 7:02 AM

    JM, there appears to be a breeze blowing but I can't remember it being in the least bit cool.

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