On the banks of the Yarrowee River, Ballarat
Water in a formerly dry waterhole on the Yarrowee.
Below: blossom and oaks on the Yarrowee.
Until yesterday, directly in front of my place the river was dry. After some good and much needed rain, there is now water in my part of the river.
I live right on the Yarrowee Trail - part of the Goldfields Track and the Great Dividing Trail. Runners and walkers and bikers of all shapes, sizes, and ages wander past my place. I have a large old Golden Ash in the front yard which is a beautiful and natural form of air-conditioning and perfect for sitting under on a hot afternoon.
And - as you can see from the picture in the title above - there is a verandah.
The cottage that is The Trad Pad is quaint, quirky and small and in need of some repair. It allegedly has three bedrooms but I prefer to say two bedrooms and a dressing room because the third has the only built-in wardrobe in the place. While it would take a single bed, I have two chests of drawers in there instead. So it is not a sleeping room but a dressing room.
While there is a nicely sized front yard there is almost no backyard. The backyard is a sort of triangle (the house is on a corner - the western wall forms part of the property's boundary) with a lane behind which once would have been used as a dunny-run - adjoining a square. The whole is gravelled instead of grass. If it was grassed one would need barber's clippers to trim the lawn. I have some of my potted plants there.
At the foot of the forested hill
