It's nearly spring and some of the wildflowers are doing their thing. We were not towing the van so I could ask the driver to stop to let me take closer look. I was surprised to find the fields of white flowers were paper daisies.
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...
Just beautiful. Where are we?
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DeleteI find it amusing that when it's nearly spring you already have flowers blooming. We don't have flowers here north of Toronto until well into spring. ;)) The fields looks so pretty dressed in white and yellow.
ReplyDeleteyes our climate is very different from yours. In Australia Spring starts from the 1 st of the month not the 20th or thereabouts. And we have lots of flowers appearing before that. These were actually taken when there was still severa
DeleteBreeks of winter to go.
Even during August we were getting the odd day or so up in the 20s. Enough to encourage red-blooded plants.
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