2007FEB161215

I took some time out today. Work can wait. While there are urgent things to do, I have the flexibility to take time off, to go back in time.

 

I got to see some of the area I used to visit when I was younger. Don't know how many times I've ridden on my bike, driven through this area. It gets hot and it's the middle of summer.

 

The area has been a orchard farming community for over a century supplying apples, pears, stone fruits. These days its being replaced with hobby farms such as grapes & increasingly olives.

 

Olives work well in areas that have low & reduced water & poor soils. The soils around this area are pretty thin, rocky & poor.

 

I'm off to a place about an hours drive from Melbourne called Panton Hill. A small town that hasn't changed much over the years.

 

I'm visiting a small non-discript park which I used to help maintain back when I was at University and had a part time job working for the Eltham Shire Parks & Gardens during the week & over the summer when I had some spare time between classes.

 

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