Isn't it pretty. I love timber buildings like this and the summer cottage gardens are a delight.
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...
Yes, it is.
ReplyDeleteEspecially for us on the other side of the globe with our more late-autumn-like winter right now, ;-)
It might be a tourist town but it's a very pretty one.
ReplyDeleteTilba is a great little town, disappointing about the cheese.
ReplyDeleteOh! I do love that picturesque cottage in the top pic and the cute Bakery obviously it has bread but no cheese - gorgeous captures!
ReplyDeleteI loved Central Tilba when we visited.
ReplyDeletePretty with just the right amount of decrepitude.
Lovely country houses and gardens and the compulsory Bakery.
ReplyDelete'Decrepitude'. Hah!
ReplyDeleteI read all these posts yesterday, just forgot to comment. I have been to Tilba a couple of times now. I like the houses and probably the community spirit, but as with these things, once they go for the tourist dollar they seem less in my eyes. One of the really nice things about Tilba is the valley, the surrounding hills (and rock cliffs) and the way the fog sits.