Armidale / Where there are streets do have names and are named after my family

St Kilda Hotel, Armidale, NSW. (Photo credit: jemasmith)

Thomas Butler (Samuel & Patience Butler's son) (Photo credit: Images @ Melonpopzdropz) Armidale is, and always has been special to me. I have wanted to live here forever.  I loved here when I came here a lot when  I was younger and I did live in Tamworth.  Wish I had known what I know now as well.   I would have understood why I loved the place so much and why I could feel my spirit here whenever I am here. 

I want to fully explore this and find my true heritage.  Not the government model played out by the other members of my family.  For a start they are not interested at all in history as they are not interested in LIFE full stop.  Go figure!

Regardless I must live my life for myself and get on with it the best I can.  I will not understand these circumstances .. I cannot as it is inhumane.

For me coming to Armidale was a relief and what a nice surprise to see Taylor  Street and Butler Street and Butler Lane even.  My great great grandfather Mr Samuel Butler of Armidale may have lived in the street I saw yesterday.   He was well known and important here as he was the city's veterinarian.  He saved lives by saving animals lives.

Booloominbah mansion, Armidale, Australia  (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

When I saw the street and the shop I had an extreme case of deja vu.  It was so weird feeling this.  I must find the history of the shop on the corner here in Armidale.

So while we are organizing the Blockade I will organize a look around the History of my  Armidale.  This does excite me.  It excites me to go and fight for our precious Earth.  It excites me that I am not one of the Slaves, and that I can go.
 
Images from my Flickr - Melonpopzdropz Flickr

The Look out point close to the resort!

Straight up the hill from where we are staying is this magnificent little gem of a place.  Its just a short walk up the hill and there are various walking tracks that criscross this to the other resorts on the other side of the ring road and that makes walking to these quicker if you are game in the night time. Dingoes get about then so it is wise to be careful.

ULURU and Kata Juta National Park

I walked up through here many times already and I am sure that I will fully experience this little piece of paradise. The entire place is packed with plants that are the renowned bush tucker that Aunty Alison collects for her exhibitions to the people in the resort. I took the pics of the full moon up here as well.

Image by Mezza - The Viewing point hill

The butterfly is a flying flower... ~Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun

Hello on Day one away from home

Today is the day we depart on our journey to the Rock!  My mind has been buzzing on this day coming around  for over three months now!  It is the 5th of May and this is it.    The entire unfolding of the trip has been perfectly timed for the three of us leaving our tiny Urunga to go to the place that hums and the place where the electromagnetic frequencies are tuned to the same frequencies my body channel searches for. 

Some of you will read this and you will immediately know what I mean.  Others may read this a scratch their heads and toss it out with the bath water so to speak.  These ones are not from the same place.  It is as if they are from a different planet.

Yes the airport is a huge place but I have a better understanding of how it all runs now these days.  It was obviously too hard to take to much notice while chasing children and being pregnant.  This time it was a very pleasant experience.  We caught a taxi to the motel.  The Airport International Inn.

Image by Mezza - Sydney Airport

In 50 days I will see Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park

50 Days... and counting.

 Between today's date and the date I see Uluru for the first time is fifty days in total today. So today we will start our countdown from here On the Hill.

I am like this piece of vegetation hanging off the side of the bridge, because I am so excited.  colloquially speaking I am simply hanging to get there.  I am going to take the most amazing photographs of my entire lifetime perhaps.  I will try to cram in as much practice as possible before I leave. 

Image by Mezza -  Something Hanging at Bellingen March 2012

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At times : It never rains but it pours.... ( proverb)

 Not much sun today in old Urunga town... I managed to get a time bit of sunshine on the dawn horizon.

This morning down the coast a short way flash flooding occurred in Port Macquarie as a storm cell dumped inches of rain on the area.

I have just returned from being up the coast with the girls having fun and seeing sights for fun and photographing all of them.  Cathy and Ana and Jew and I had so many laughs it was surely good for our souls.  It was hilarious trying to understand each other again.   Thai isn't easy and spanish is fun.  I come home speaking like a mix of all of these.  

The trip was marred with some sadness as we recalled again our many great stories of our dear departed friend Texsy who was tragically run over while walking home late last year in 2011.   We shed tears and laughed for her.  We said on more than one occasion that we felt she was there with us. 

I love Jew, I love the tenacity that this woman has.  I love Ana, she is someone to look up to as she is wise and beautiful in her spirit.  Cathy and I took the trip for fun, we couldn't help but think how much it was like old times when we used to trip around NSW with  my job with Koala Publishing.

The entire trip was filled with the effects of the butterfly once more.

Image by Mezza - Rain on the dawn horizon Feb 2012