The road is silent, All is quiet around me except for the occasional call of birds and the soft thump of this little fellow bounding over the paddock. I wonder if his feet get cold?
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...
What are you doing out of bed and outside in the cold at this time in the morning? Silly question. You're blogging. Then again, is it early or does it just look that way?
ReplyDeleteJoan doesn't 'do' early, Diane!!
ReplyDeleteWell this day I did get up rather early, ir was just before sunrise so around 6:30 ish. I have to get up at 5:15am to catch the train to work so my body clock is currently switched to early wake up even though it is NOT NATURAL for me.
ReplyDeleteHave to get out early to get frost because the sun melts it away pretty fast.
So very cute! No need to tell you you'll never see one these here... :-)))
ReplyDeleteDid you realize the title of this post is "Slience"?
ReplyDeleteSounds funny.
Slience is Golden - you know every time I hear that song now it will always be slience.
We both have kangaroos today!
Must be kangaroo season.
Ha ha. Of course i didn't notice the typo ... I am the queen of typos.
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