Chrissie deckies in Rutherglen

The main street is decorated with these giant Christmas bows.

Simple red bows on trees were seen throughout the Barossa Valleys and other places with German influence in South Australia.

Rutherglen Butchers

Detail in the external wall of the butcher's shop in Rutherglen, Victoria.

Mt Sturgeon

From the Glenelg Highway at the southern gateway to the Grampians.

Mary McKillop teaching in Penola

The great great grandson of Annie Britt, who sat in Mary McKillop's classes in Penola, claims he knows all the work on the blackboard.

Christmas in Kingston SE

... Ring those bells!

A very big BIG THING!

The Big Lobster

At Kingston, SE

Lake Albert

At Meningie.

Keep The Pavement Dry

Erected by public subscription in affectionate memory of the late John Benson, Surgeon, 1877.

On Portrush Road, Norwood, near the Sisters of St Joseph.

Adelaide Zoo

Keep Left

At North Parade.

Wave Queen

From a three masted wooden barque, wrecked at Rivoli Bay on 6 September 1874 while loading flour.

The figurehead was enshrined for many years in an open-sided corrugated tank at a farm at Tantanoola.

Curio

In Marrabel, South Australia.

Pike River Santa

SA Quarantine and Inspection Station

Welcome to Phylloxera free South Australia ... looks like a remnant from the glorious days of the Adelaide Grand Prix!

Precious Water

In Mildura.

Aussie Santa in Mildura

Murrumbidgee River, Balranald

The river flows but it is dry along it's banks.....

Carrathool Allan Truss and Bascule Bridge over the Murrumbidgee

In South West New South Wales.

Grenfell Ambulance Station

Henry Lawson

"Though you sing of dear old Mudgee and the home on pipeclay flat,
You were born on Grenfell Goldfield - and you can't get over that."

"Said Grenfell to my Spirit" (1922)

Henry Lawson was born in Grenfell on 17 June 1867

Peace in the gardens at Cowra

With the crisp smell of a cool southerly and a land anewly cleansed by a decent fall of rain.

Rain clouds over Cowra

A welcome cool relief and some rain for this dry land.

Magnificent old buildings

In Bathurst with the first whispy clouds of the waether change ...

Bathurst before the storm

On a hot afternoon when there are bushfires raging in NSW.

Filling up at Waterfall

The 3642 on the way back to Sydney.

Echidna

On his way, looking for food.

The grand goat

At Helensburgh.

Consumerism as the basis of art

This massive sculpture has a cash register suspended inside. This piece has deconstructed the inherent greed and materiality of the modern consumer culture with a massive, crude yet skilful construction.

From inside a bunker

Safe as armory

The copper door of the Issue Hatch.

The lightning rod and copper conduting strips to deliver any electrical charge safely to Earth.

Sixty years into Queen Victoria's reign

Fine gates were built at the Naval Armoury, Newington, New South Wales.

Flowers in the Armoury Grounds

Pea-flowers in bloom.

Entering Building 39

Lots of warnings.

Newington Armoury

Spring blossoms

Early Morning in the Southern Highlands

The first new growth of Spring.

More magnolias

Closer to Spring

A week later, the magnolia is still flowering but the first leaves have appeared.

Early spring blossom

The magnolia has bust into blossom this week. The flowers were knocked about a bit by the cold front that came through Sydney last night at sunset.

Central Railway, Sydney

At dusk, the hustle and bustle beneath the sentinel sandstone clock tower of Central Station.

Town Hall

Perth, Western Australia.

Percy Button in Hay Street.

Entertaining the crowds for a living.

Inside London Court...

The boys were very excited - it was like Diagon Alley in "Harry Potter"!

London Court, Perth.

The boys were only moderately interested, at the point of entering from St George's Terrace.

Clouds over the alumina refinery

At Naval Base, Western Australia.

Safety Bay, Western Australia

Storm clouds over the sea.

No. 1 Pumping Station

Mundaring Weir again...

Mundaring Weir.