Post-apocalyptic hide away.  Then further along and higher on the road less travelled.

South coast free of weather problems.
It's so green it's even unaustralian.

The countryside in NW Queensland near the NT border is fresh and green following rain.  Never the less, the rest area was bare and I bet that red soil means trouble if there is any rain at all.  It sticks like glue. Can't say it was busy.

We can live in hope - cessation of live cattle export. Tit for tat with our northern neighbour. There's a lot of bull. Property near Nundle NSW

Into the psychoanalythic woods and the mirror image. Rorschach would have a 129th birthday according to Google's person of the day. Rorschach did inkblots.  It's simple, an inkblot is is an image of the thyroid gland and that's significant because the thyroid is of hugh importance.

Dawning. Paterson.

Family Fair and Open Day that is set to enjoy This Saturday Nov 2 Linuwel School East Maitland on the road to Morpeth.

A 'squatter' mentioned this is known as 'the valley', round Nundle area, where cattle breeders dwell as well as having a significant dairy farm.   

On the 'long paddock'. The 'drover' was on a Honda.

The hottest September on record has occured over much of the nation.  Climate change is on a global scale.  We are all at the mercy of each other nationwise.
Anyway, any extreme climate change will all be beyond my life time and this was a pleasant country area to enjoy right now.  After taking this I skidded over on the gravel and it makes for a very hard sharp landing.

 

ODE TO AN AUSSIE

A tree living in the bush at Camooweal.

But just not an ordinary tree.

This is a Swampy Gum tree - another old man swampy!

You may note he is growing on rock.

Super hard country and very warm in summer.

 One also knows by the black scars he wears

that he has endured several ordeals by fire

yet he still has his own hair (leaves), white bark and aura of strength.

He is home to vast numbers of ants, beetles, spiders, lizards and birds

and shade to 'roos, catlle and man - he does not discriminate.

He provides excellent firewood to boil up, cook and heat.

He shines like the richest cedar when polished,

He is an Aussie through and through!

He is an astounding free gift from the universe!

photo: Carmel from Camooweal. writer: Starman  2013

Aladdin's magic lamp burned oil that was a forerunner of canola oil.  When canola is in flower the country-side looks crazily sports minded wearing the green and gold. It is our third largest broadacre crop after wheat and barley.
At flowering time the crop has implications for honey bees.

Related to the brassica family with a name derived from Canadian Oil low acid, the Canola plants develope multiple seed pods, like runner beans, which change from green to brown to black so it seems that the crop is brown and dry by the time of windrow and large harvesters.

The seeds from the pods are crushed and precessed in various ways to produce oil and substances that have very diverse uses in foods and in industry.

GM canola is also grown.  Resistence to herbicides is a feature.  There are reports of the growth of hugh weeds as a result of how things are done.

The oil is said to have health benefits over other fats.
A multinational company, Cargell, with HQ in Minneapollis, has widespread operations in canola in Australia and at Kooragang in Newcastle has a crush plant and oil refinery and oil terminal complete with a smell of cooking oil.
One local organization among others, GrainCorp Oil, is to start producing and exporting the oil and the seeds.

Grassland in North West Queensland.

More of western Queensland.  Photo is not of current times.  Abundant rain has fallen recently in much of Queensland.

Western Queensland fence line. 9 kilometres. In drought, it seems.
Borrowed photo, just a ring-in. 

Take a pleasant drive on a country road. It follows the river where rushing water formed mini rock escarpments long ago,
special remnants of roadside vegetation,
a rustic wooden bridge - strong yet totally dilapidated,
original safety fences made of wire,
signs of a preceeding twisting even narrower track,
idle gatherings of Friesians 
and small roadside creamery in weatherboard (from a dairy of the ?fifties).
Countryside of vivid green folded hills and river valleys.
Cute for the day tripper.
Perhaps a different matter for busy people or the milk truck - refigerated B Double - doing the rounds of the dairies day after day after day....or so.

In memory of my relative: agronomist; tireless citizen; 96 years old; true Hawkesbury Agricultural College old boy. I never heard the name 'aggie' used by him!  Related through marriage.

        Free range eggs.  Are they free or are they $2?
Leave money at the farm gate and collect fresh eggs complete with a feather.
No, not loose unpacked eggs - ye olde farm is right up-to-date. What was I thinking? Egg crates have been around forever. 
Eggs usually have brown shells, no white shells are found now.

   My gross weight: 81kg that's minus .5kg.... exercise... exercise...

broken glass and view

(My gross weight: 82.5kg, -1.5kg)

Out in the provinces, was seen Tamworth Co-operative Ltd as a fading sign from last century, where lots of people shopped for their food, produce and goodness knows what, and they held shares in the business.
When the retail 'giants' open up in the suburbs of country towns then the city centre changes. Is that what they really wanted to happen?  
South of Tamworth and in the ranges evidence of recent rain was easy to see.  The grass was very green.

My gross weight: 82.25kg (-1.75kg)

While stravaiging down Pitnacree Road towards the Hunter River the corn was a high as an elephant's eye.
Pitnacree road from East Maitland came to a dead end  before construction of a bridge over the Hunter was commenced.
Pitnacree must have origins in Scotland and is the name of a neolithic barrow unearthed in Perthshire.