Mr Birch's Legacy

On Sunday, with the sky looking like it would cloud up, I headed out to a popular spot of mine out at Smeaton. Birch's Creek is running really well after some good localised heavy falls during the week, and the surprising thing about this visit was just how much the bushes have grown up since I was last here. It makes a really nice surrounds above this small cascades. Just as I was finishing up here I could feel a lightening in the sky so I raced back to the car and hit the road just in time to catch a nice end to the weekend looking across to Birch's Hill. The smaller hill on its side down the right hand bottom is the Lord Harry mine, one of the many old gold mines in the district. I'm not 100% sure of who Birch was - he's left his name on a lot of the local landmarks in this area.

And as exciting as these images are (!) the most exciting thing from Sunday was that I booked our next USA trip...we are off to experience winter in Yellowstone National Park at the end of February before moving down to Albuquerque and spending some more time touring a number of the parks there - should be awesome. Try googling Yellowstone in winter for an idea of what we'll be experiencing!

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