Friday, February 29, 2008
Pot Shopping
Don't you just love their matching snowy heads and pants?
And his shirt works in nicely with the stripy blue pots.
This nursery has given us nearly all the plants in our garden.
(oh, hang on, when I say "given us" I mean, we paid for them)
They are friendly and helpful and have nice healthy plants.
Photo:
Growmaster Nursery, Lambert St, Ararat - Feb, 2008
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Giant Yo-Yos
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Quiet
Monday, February 25, 2008
I Suffer For My Art!
Hope you appreciate this photo!
I got shocked by an electric fence taking it!
It was hiding in the long grass and I caught my ankle on it.
It bit me and I didn't realize at first what it was.
I made sure there were no snakes around and waited a few seconds.
As I didn't drop dead from snake venom - I thought I must have poked myself with a stick.
Later I noticed an electric fence sign further down and still didn't put two and two together.
Then when I got home I thought - oo my ankle is a bit sore.
I had a long graze across my ankle - still the penny didn't drop.
Sad, isn't it?
You'd think it had shocked my brain!
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker
Well, no.
No candle-stick maker anymore.
If ever there was one in Ararat.
I notice lamb shanks are quite reasonably priced.
I do have a very nice lamb shank dish I like to make in winter.
I'm not quite sure what a cheese bacon chicken steaks are, but I'm pretty sure they are not my scene.
I like to support our local butcher - I hate to see them dying out in country towns as people favour the "convenience" of supermarkets.
Every country town needs a butcher!
Photo:
Ingor St, Ararat - Feb, 2008
Saturday, February 23, 2008
School's Out
Friday, February 22, 2008
You Say Potato - I Say Potarto
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Who Is She?
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
What Are They Talking About?!
It's hard to imagine that you will hear people say there is nothing to do in a country town.
Ararat is an absolute hive of activity on the week-ends.
Sport features heavily - and there is such a wide selection to choose from:
Cricket, tennis, swimming, pistol-shooting, golf, lawn bowls, water skiing, etc.
This past week-end you could have been a spectator at the Diamond Stakes Cycling Carnival at the Ararat Velodrome.
Or at at the Ararat Motorcycle Club's track two day motorcycle racing event which included competitors from all over Victoria and South Australia.
Down the road at The Grampians, you could check out over 100 old school hot rods gathered for the annual "Rod Run" (last week, the Jazz Festival was held).
If sport isn't your thing - you could have celebrated the Year of the Rat with festivities at the Gum San Chinese Heritage Centre.
Or you could have watched The Ararat Sing Australia Choir perform or popped into the Ararat Art Gallery to view a textile art exhibition.
Or if you like big engineering things, you could attend an open day for a new wind farm that will be developed outside Ararat (another one - we already have one.)
Or you could just do what I did - watch itty bitty planes fly around in the big blue sky.
Photo:
Ararat & District Aeromodellers Club, Warrak Rd, Ararat'ish - 16 Feb, 2008
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Pining Away
Cypress Pines were once king of the windbreaks in the Western Region.
They still are to a degree.
(Ummm..... for those who have difficulty with the English language - "windbreaks" are trees or bushes planted around paddocks to provide protection from the wind).
These ones have obviously seen better days.
Photo:
Geelong Rd, Ararat - Feb, 2008
Monday, February 18, 2008
Once Upon a Time
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Saturday Afternoon
Saturday, February 16, 2008
The Obligatory Shot
Friday, February 15, 2008
Dry as Chips
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Road Hog
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Sorry Day
What a wonderful day!
The day the Australian Parliament apologized to Indigenous Australians for the Stolen Generation.
One of the most moving days of my life.
I hope the wound on our Australian soul may now begin to heal.
Photo:
The beautiful Australian flowering gum - 2008
Outside the Salvation Army buildings - Ararat
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Peace Out
Artwork display for World Peace Day by local school kids, at the Ararat Library.
Okay, so the spelling is creative but if you can't spell creatively when you're a little'un, when can you?
Don't you love the fingers doing the peace sign in the second painting?
Photo:
Ararat Library, Barkly St - Jan, 2008
Monday, February 11, 2008
You Never Know What You'll Find
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Run Forrest, Run!
Saturday, February 9, 2008
The Local Round-Up
A choice selection of news.
The local paper, The Ararat Advertiser
has a photo of residents receiving
their free compact fluorescent light bulb from
the Ararat Energy Savers Project (hey, how come I didn't get one?
Probably coz I was too lazy to go and get it!).
And a 30-50% off HomyPeds sale at the local chemist!
Can't ask for fairer than that!
Photo:
Ararat Newsagency, Barkly St - Feb, 2008
Friday, February 8, 2008
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Raging Torrent
Okay, okay - it's less than a trickle and yes, it's a drain.
I must have been carrying around those last couple of posts from
Richmond Upon Thames DP in my head, cause I followed my
camera and found myself here.
Hardly compares with the Thames (or even the River Brent at low tide)
but it is quite a pretty drain.
Yes?
Photo:
Moore St, Ararat - Feb 2008.
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Click Go The Shears
We are in sheep country (formerly gold country).
These shearing sheds are dotted all around the outskirts of Ararat.
Good thing shearing season isn't in the middle of Summer.
Can you imagine how hot it would be in one of those metal boxes at 40 degrees (106F)?
And how smelly?
And how many flies?
Errr - shudder.
Photo:
Outskirts of Ararat - Jan, 2008
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
All Gummed Up
Monday, February 4, 2008
Big Truck
Yes, we have trucks in Ararat!
Big trucks.
Usually carrying something agricultural:
animals, timber, giant water tanks, etc
Mainly, they are just passing through.
This one is probably headed north-west, where the drought is being very unkind to farmers.
I'm sure it wasn't on purpose, but I'm impressed by his colourful selection of orange straps to contrast with the jaunty blue of his cabin.
Photo:
Cnr Barkly and Mortlake-Ararat Rds, Ararat - 30 Jan, 2008.
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