2009SEP131926
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This week in images
Been pretty busy this week aside from work. I've got so many image threads going for the moment I'll only be adding summaries. The rest of the shots will go up, but slowly. I've got more pressing things to do and I've still got images outstanding working @ Dads, Mooses and the Wattle Festival.
Went to the Collingwood / St.Kilda match on Saturday, 2009SEP05. It was a classic match with a team that last on a Grand final in 1966. I'm doing better over the last couple of years going breaking my average of about 1 game per decade. St.Kilda ran all over Collingwood in the end playing a game similar to Basketball passing the ball around and running the Pies all over the ground.
Mt.Dandy for lunch
On Tuesday, 2009SEP08 shot up to Mt. Dandenong for lunch with Old man and sister. It was overcast down the hill, up the hill it rained and blew a gail. Lucky I came prepared - instead of t-shirts and shorts I packed some thermals. Had lunch at a local Pub beside the fire and then went up to the Rhododendron gardens to chat to the ARS members. The fire has killed off all but a handful of Dads plants which believe it or not numbered in the thousands. Dads specialty is slow growing, large leaved Rhododendrons which originate in high altitudes China. A young mans plant. So he's talking to see if he can get some plants to re-plant the property. We did a tour in the bus and he proceeded to talk the entire tour on the various plants he'd planted there to the astonishment of the new driver. It was pouring rain, windy and by the time we left pretty cold.
On Friday, 2009SEP11, Walked past a panel shop I keep an eye on. A few old cars and a few new looking ones. A Ford Customline was out the front. A Fairlane and a couple of unidentified cars lined up.
Saturday was the Diamond Creek Town fair. I've missed a few over the last couple of years because the fair used to be in March not September. Parked the car up on a hill and walked down to the ovals across the bridge. At first I got the impression the Fair had changed from what I last remember it. But as I moved from the Coventry oval to the old Soccer oval I found the CFA demonstrations, the running events, the Axemen, some car displays and a myriad of local stands. Pretty much as I remember. It got pretty warm in the afternoon. Walked back up the hill along Bage St. to Galatea St, where I used to live. Went home. A perfect day.
Earlier in the year we (myself, brother, sister and a good mate) organised power and water for Dad in the early days of Black Saturday. "K" got the call for some of the emergency water supply containers to be re-called. We were lucky enough to be able to use these ruggedised containers free of cost. They made the difference between having water and not having water. You can't trust the local authorities to be able to supply these basic services. So I organised a ute and drove up the same path through Eltham, Diamond Creek, Yarrambat, Doreen, Yan Yean, Whittlesea to Kinglake West. Today just happened to have a large bike event on the way so doing 60 in the diesel was ok. Got up to KLW, had some lunch. Hitched up some jury-rigged piping to remove the water from the Pallecon. It took 5minutes to break the box down, about 5 minutes to move the single axle trailer by hand (unlike a double axle, too hard to reverse) tie the pallets down. Did a quick tour of the garden again checking out some orchards that are springing up. Went home. Got a few shots of some paddocks in Yan Yean. Haven't seen them so green for a long time.
Summer is coming and so is the heat.
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2009SEP131926
Check out Renewin' Strathewen
Check out Work @ Dads
This week in images
Been pretty busy this week aside from work. I've got so many image threads going for the moment I'll only be adding summaries. The rest of the shots will go up, but slowly. I've got more pressing things to do and I've still got images outstanding working @ Dads, Mooses and the Wattle Festival.
Went to the Collingwood / St.Kilda match on Saturday, 2009SEP05. It was a classic match with a team that last on a Grand final in 1966. I'm doing better over the last couple of years going breaking my average of about 1 game per decade. St.Kilda ran all over Collingwood in the end playing a game similar to Basketball passing the ball around and running the Pies all over the ground.
Mt.Dandy for lunch
On Tuesday, 2009SEP08 shot up to Mt. Dandenong for lunch with Old man and sister. It was overcast down the hill, up the hill it rained and blew a gail. Lucky I came prepared - instead of t-shirts and shorts I packed some thermals. Had lunch at a local Pub beside the fire and then went up to the Rhododendron gardens to chat to the ARS members. The fire has killed off all but a handful of Dads plants which believe it or not numbered in the thousands. Dads specialty is slow growing, large leaved Rhododendrons which originate in high altitudes China. A young mans plant. So he's talking to see if he can get some plants to re-plant the property. We did a tour in the bus and he proceeded to talk the entire tour on the various plants he'd planted there to the astonishment of the new driver. It was pouring rain, windy and by the time we left pretty cold.
On Friday, 2009SEP11, Walked past a panel shop I keep an eye on. A few old cars and a few new looking ones. A Ford Customline was out the front. A Fairlane and a couple of unidentified cars lined up.
Saturday was the Diamond Creek Town fair. I've missed a few over the last couple of years because the fair used to be in March not September. Parked the car up on a hill and walked down to the ovals across the bridge. At first I got the impression the Fair had changed from what I last remember it. But as I moved from the Coventry oval to the old Soccer oval I found the CFA demonstrations, the running events, the Axemen, some car displays and a myriad of local stands. Pretty much as I remember. It got pretty warm in the afternoon. Walked back up the hill along Bage St. to Galatea St, where I used to live. Went home. A perfect day.
Earlier in the year we (myself, brother, sister and a good mate) organised power and water for Dad in the early days of Black Saturday. "K" got the call for some of the emergency water supply containers to be re-called. We were lucky enough to be able to use these ruggedised containers free of cost. They made the difference between having water and not having water. You can't trust the local authorities to be able to supply these basic services. So I organised a ute and drove up the same path through Eltham, Diamond Creek, Yarrambat, Doreen, Yan Yean, Whittlesea to Kinglake West. Today just happened to have a large bike event on the way so doing 60 in the diesel was ok. Got up to KLW, had some lunch. Hitched up some jury-rigged piping to remove the water from the Pallecon. It took 5minutes to break the box down, about 5 minutes to move the single axle trailer by hand (unlike a double axle, too hard to reverse) tie the pallets down. Did a quick tour of the garden again checking out some orchards that are springing up. Went home. Got a few shots of some paddocks in Yan Yean. Haven't seen them so green for a long time.
Summer is coming and so is the heat.
next >>>