Our Transition

We have gone from

Note the clothing that must be worn to fend off the weather.

Although this might look like fun - again note the clothing - minus the helmet, of course. There was an apology to Mom that there is not helmet in the picture because "moms" always notice these omissions.





to this:

I tried to get her to look less happy and content.

Dave with our friend Norm in front of their view of the Adelaide Hills. They also have this view from the deck and pool. 

It's too cold to swim because it's only been 22 degrees outside and the pool is solar heated.  Poor child - but isn't she cute!!!









Our neighbourhood - Lily does this help? Lily pointed out that she doesn't know what the city looks like.She's right, So, starting with our neighbourhood: St Peters South Australia.

We live at the corner of 6th Ave and Harrow Road. This is 7th ave. Most of the streets are wide like this.

This is Harrow Road.

Most houses have fences front and back. The most common are tea tree (right and below) and iron (left and below). Tea tree is very small, very dry branches. They look like kindling and apparently burn very quickly. Friends of ours who live in the hills replaced their tea tree fence with metal because they are worried about fires. They have trees on two sides of their house. 

There is also iron work on the house which you can sort of see in this close up of the iron fence.




The following are random shots in our neighbourhood.

This street leads to Linear park ( see below).

The spider plants and the aloe vera grow outside along the block. Do you think anyone would notice if I took a piece of aloe vera if I cut or burn myself.

There was a state election in South Australia on Sat March 20. One of the polling stations was at the Hackney (name of the street) kindergarten. We would call it a day care.

The gate to the polling station is right under the tree where the man is standing.Note the election advertising right beside the gate.

Linear Park runs along the Torrens River. The bike path runs 18 kms from our place to the Adelaide hills. The other direction is about a 45 min walk into the city. 

We live about three blocks from the park.

Poor Sandy had just arrived with no luggage and i made her wear my UV protection hat. Goes without saying that she loved the park.

All the photos in the posting of March Already ( except for the three of the trees in the city) were taken in Linear park.