Welcome Spring

A lovely surprise gift,  Spring time in Adelaide.

The Royal Show ...so it must be Spring!

My beautiful granddaughter

We had a great day at the Adelaide Royal Show. We haven't been for many years but decided to go this year as our granddaughter was staying there with her school in the Agricultural area. She loves animals and one of her subjects involved animals so perfect for her.  They had different clothes for each event and they all looked so very smart.

After visiting the beautiful cows we went to a Grand parade in the main arena, and also some horse events.  It was good to sit and have a rest for a while as it all involves a lot of walking.

And to finish the week , a couple of my paintings.

Have a good week.

Wordless Wednesday

 Linking to Drifting through Life, Wordless Wednesday

A few random photos.

Spring is here!

My first Spring daffodils

My latest card painting

Morning Walk

Another painting

Wordless Wednesday

 MT LOFTY SUMMIT,  ADELAIDE

Linking with Wordless Wednesday

Mt Lofty, Adelaide

Travelling Around The Adelaide Hills

 

Mylor

linking with Skywatch Friday

Beautiful Acacia (Golden Wattle) 

The weather this week has been wonderful so we decided to drive around the hills and enjoyed the lovely drive.

Coopers Rural store has been in operation for around 120 years

Coopers Rural and Hardware Store

Our first stop was in Mylor, a small village, visited years ago on our way to see friends and family.  We were so pleased to see that it was still an interesting little town with lots of history and old buildings.

Silver Lake

Silver Lake is now a private property so we were only able to take a photo from the street.  When we were young adults in the 60's(!??) I can remember it as a recreational park and lake with tea rooms and a caravan park etc. but was closed in the late 1960's due to polluted water. In the early 1900's it was a man-made sluice dam for gold mining and was converted to a recreational area when the mine was closed.

The private house and lake 

Beautiful properties in the hills

Prospect Hill

Prospect Hill is another small village, settled from about 1840, in the Adelaide Hills.

In 1983 the Ash Wednesday bushfires wiped out many of the buildings in and around Prospect Hill  but fortunately the Post Office and General Store were saved and the Museum is housed in these buildings.

Kuitpo

The forest at Kuitpo

Shelducks and others on a dam

Lovely miniature horses

These sheep thought we were going to hand feed them - big disappointment!

Golden Wattle

We had a good day out and it was made even better with seeing the golden wattle out in bloom.

HAPPY WATTLE DAY  - 

National Wattle Day in Australia is 1st September 

Hope you have a good week.

Is Freeling free?

We had another car run in our Jag this last weekend, this time to a great pub in the small little town of Freeling in South Australia, about 60km north of Adelaide and no it is not free and was named after a Surveyor General of Adelaide.  Freeling is probably most famously known for the filming of the TV serues,  MacLeod's Daughters, between 2001 and 2009 and the (renamed) Gungellan Hotel featured  in many episodes.
 

The Gungellan Hotel

We met at a Bakery for coffee, a few kilometres from our house, and the organiser had some printed maps and directions for us to make our way at our own pace as some of the Jags are getting a bit old (and the drivers too) and some members don't always take their Jaguar on the runs, so everyone travels at a speed  that suits them and doesn't hold up the general traffic.

Breakneck Cutting in Tea Tree Gully

This cutting is known by the locals as Breakneck Cutting and is a huge cutting in the rock  through which the North East Road passes on route through the Adelaide Hills.

A lovely drive through the hills and the golden wattle just in flower

Through the Barossa Valley wine region

An Almond tree in blossom along the way

Freeling

We had a lovely drive through the hills and the Barossa Valley and arrived at Freeling and the Gungellan Hotel for lunch.  The hotel is known these days for its wonderful meals and we weren't disappointed.

Some of the cars arriving at the hotel

A surprise at the entrance

And a warm welcome inside

The meals were huge

The old railway sheds at Freeling near the hotel

Magnificent old gum tree

We had a great day out and enjoyed meeting up with friends and then back home to watch the Paris 2024 Olympics.