I always think a city is particularly exotic when there are palm trees among city towers.
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...
It looks so lonely.
ReplyDeleteOh your right ... when compared to Qld. Almost as lonely as the tall palm in my garden in the mountains.
DeleteIt does give a touch of the exotic
ReplyDeleteI think I fell in love with palm trees as a tiny girl from the ones outside the Brisbane Town Hall.
Deletea nice spot for lunch for those office-dwellers :D)
ReplyDeleteLots of them take advantage of it.
DeleteNah ... don't like palm trees. No sense of being able to hug it.
ReplyDeleteBut they are thin enough to get your arms right around them!
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