Richmond, NSW

The rain cleared today so we took a run to Richmond. I wanted to take some photos for the This is how I see it: Sydney group on Flickr. Each month they vote on a suburb to visit and photograph and as I was one who voted for Richmond, I at least had to make the effort to go.

Richmond is in the Hawkesbury River valley, which was first explored in 1789.

In 1794, 22 farms were marked out from South Creek to Wilberforce and, within four years, the area was populated by 600 free settlers as well as convict labourers.

In 1810, Governor Macquarie established five towns in the area - Windsor, Richmond, Wilberforce, Pitt Town and Castlereagh.

These towns are commonly referred to as "Macquarie towns"

The Hawkesbury Show was on this weekend, so the commercial end of town seemed fairly quiet (or maybe that's normal for a Richmond Sunday)

We stopped at St. Peters cemetery first, again for photos, because I started a Flickr group for Sydney cemeteries then realised all my cemetery photos were on film and weren't scanning well. I could have spent more time there, I need more practice getting 'arty' type photos.

St. Peters burial ground was laid out in January 1811 - together with the site for the church and schoolhouse - under Governor Macquaries direction.
The cemetery contains graves of many well known pioneers, including John and Honour Bowman (George Bowmans parents), Paul Randall (the original proprietor of the Black Horse Inn) famous midwife Margaret Catchpole, William Cox Senior of "Hobartville" and Joseph Onus Junior (who was mayor from 1873 to 1875).







Out of the cemetery and into Richmond town - just loved the way the war memorial had the cannons pointed straight at the train stop - it really is the end of the line!



and where else can you get a cosmopolitan spread like vietnamese bread, thai takeway and a tandoori restaurant and STILL drive your tractor to town



There are more photos in the Richmond set on Flickr, I'll leave you with these entry floor tiles at the School of Arts, a nice quilting inspiration

you talkin' to me???

Taking some pics in my sewing room (good light under the skylight) and accidentally snapped this:



......well, we all need to hear it sometimes!!

ATASDA pieces

I am such a DILL!!!
I got my dates mixed up with my groups,

ATASDA is asking members to make a 15cm (6") square piece of work for display at the Darling Harbour quilt show at end of June. The theme is "Rites of Passage" which we can interpret as personal, spiritual or where our craft journey has taken us.

I chose a spiritual theme using the triple goddess in my piece as (having had my BIGGIE birthday last Saturday) I feel I can now claim to all three, maid mother and matriarch. (won't use the C word, I have friends who object to being called a crone VBG)

For some silly reason I can't explain, I got it into my head that they had to be ready for the Sydney Easter Show and I was to hand them in at yesterdays meeting.
So I sat up til 1am putting a border and backing on them because (as usual with me) I left everything til the last minute.

When I found out I still had a couple of months I wanted to take them home again to do more to them, but the ladies talked me out of it, saying they were fine as they are and I would only "fiddle" if I took them home.
I still might make something else for it, using the craft journey idea.








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