Sweet Wayfaring

A few weeks ago at church friends mentioned the Daffodil Festival was on at Rydal.  Walking home I noticed it was a lovely sunny day, and while the grass needed cutting at home I quickly decided it could wait.  We jumped in the car and went on a Sunday drive, at the same time taking the chance to reactivate the 100 towns project before the year runs out. To learn more about Rydal and see its daffodils visit  Rydal at 100 Towns.

We were in Canberra during the week so went for a quick walk around Floriade.  Here you go, just one shot. Tomorrow I am going to start posting more of the 100 Towns.  The year is fast coming to a close and I've got 44 left to go if I'm going to make my target for the year.

No holiday is complete without at least one big thing. As we approached the mountains the traffic began to crawl.  We sighed thinking it was an accident or the interminable road works blocking the road but as we neared the power station at Wallerawang the source of the problem was turning into the side road.  It was one of those big mining/power station things  ... remember the one we saw at Miles.  Well I kid you not, this one had even more wheels, five trucks pulling it and three trucks pushing!  I grabbed the shot as we sped past, free from the traffic jam at last. There is a much bigger bit of it outside the frame of this shot. That is the end of this journey. I hope you have enjoyed the trip ... we did.

As we near the end of our journey the hills and valleys return.  To me it is like the face of the land is crinkling into a welcome home smile.

This was the view from the window on the last evening in our little caravan home.  We're at Mudgee and very lucky to get a spot.  It was the weekend of the small farm field days which we had forgotten about until we discovered the first caravan park was full.  It would have been a quagmire out at the event because rain was beating down.

I can't believe it.  We been miles and miles and I haven't shown you a single abandoned house on the trip ... had better fix that up.  Here you go.  Somewhere after Binnaway and before Gulgong where we went to the bakery for lunch.

I had never heard of Binnaway until Ray sent in a Royal from the town.  So I just had to go down the track leading to there to see if for myself.  This road has some beaut towns to explore and they are not far from home so we will do a weekend back out this way sometime soon.