a bit more show and tell

Here are a few snaps from our trip away last week. This one is, you know, pretty Spring flowers (they're just too hard to resist).


We have a friend who's parent's live up near where we were looking for a new home. We were lucky enough to be able to stay in their granny flat. And when I say lucky, I mean it. Their house was lovely, on a beautiful block of land in the bush. It made such a difference after driving around towns all day long (for a week) to be able to come back to a "home" at the end of each day; flop on the lounge and have a cup of tea. We can't imagine how different our week would have been if we had to stay in a cheap, soul-less hotel. Anyway, the first and last shots in this bunch are the view from their back veranda. The middle photo is the red dirt at Valla.


One of the towns we were looking at had the most amazing mosaic all along the front and side of the local police station. The mosaic was apparently made by one man, and you could honestly spend all day looking at it. It's made to look like a set of waves rolling in off the ocean. But on closer inspection you realise it's made of cups and plates, and teapots, and soap-dishes, and porcelain figures, and dolphin shaped bottle openers, and bunnies, and bulls and all sorts of paraphernalia!!! Like I said it's amazing!


Driving around a suburb one day we saw 3 kangaroos on someone's front lawn. (One of them had a pouch full of joey). So surreal for a city girl to see. We stopped the car, and took a few snaps, and talked about how we could train Tilli to sit in a pouch. heeee.