November and December

 Trying hard to update my blog and slowly getting there! Some of my adventures from November and December.

Having had a bit of a space theme with our trip to the Warrumbungles- visiting the Parkes and Siding Springs telescopes, I decided the Tuesday Girls needed to visit the site of the tracking station at Honeysuckle Creek. Kerrie and Deb had never been and it had been a while since I had been.
Naas Valley at the Apollo Road turn off was looking lovely and green following recent rain.

The Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station is no longer there, but a few years back they put up signage to commemorate the significance of the area. The forecast was for a hot day but up at Honeysuckle Creek it was cold and misty so we needed our jumpers.

I was reminded what a lovely spot it is. I have ridden my bike up a few times over the years but haven't done any walking so enjoyed a walk through the bush.

There were still a variety of wildflowers to be seen.

For my birthday a few friends went out for lunch at Les Bistronomes at Campbell for lunch. We enjoyed a very yummy lunch.

Another Tuesday Girls adventure took us into the National Gallery where we got to see the new "Ouroboris" which was recently installed.

View from the inside

And from the outside

Always love seeing the Pear sculpture

 And this is the Within Without art installation.

From without

And within

We really do live in a beautiful city with things so easy to get to.

I recently went up to Guthega in the Snowy Mountains with Bill for an Astronomy weekend at the Brindabella Ski Lodge. Unfortunately it rained all Friday night and Saturday, and so the telescopes never left the van. They did do some talks on the Saturday, Bill did a talk in the morning on an Introduction to Astronomy and another CAS member did one in the afternoon on an Introduction to Astro Photography. Was interesting to see Bill in Astronomy mode- quite different to what he is at home. He was in his element talking abou the stars!

I did manage to get out for a 5km walk Saturday afternoon. It looked like it had stopped raining, so I headed out, it did shower on and off but I had my umbrella and rain jacket. It was lovely getting out after being cooped up all day. Mountain country is just something special. This was quite the suspension bridge, one person at a time!

This was the Snowy River, not to far from its source.