return to Temora via Stockinbingal yesterday...

Today is an odd day...My mind and body feel riddled with anxiety and general fears are rising...

Perhaps it is due to spending quite some time this morning chasing up why I still have not received my bond back from my Mornington Peninsula rental...

Perhaps it is due to worrying about a puppy digging a large hole under the side fence this morning and was running amok...sabotaging potted plants in the front yard (waiting to transfer to the new house) and generally scattering dirt everywhere...

(Of course, I cleaned it all up...

I didn't want my daughter to come home tired from work and find all the mess..)

Perhaps it is due to general frustration that the short, cramped stay with my daughter is now a longer stay till at least September... with all the new house building delays...

All I know is that I really don't feel right...

So I've decided to just sit still with a coffee and glow in the wonders of yesterday's drive...

And write some more about it...

I travelled down Old Cootamundra Road from Temora yesterday, but decided to return via Stockinbingal on Burley Griffin Way...

The photo above is one of several grain train rail crossings on the road...

But of course, it was the countryside that enchanted me...

the greens and the blues and those gracious trees...

At times, the blue hills seemed like a meandering stream low in the sky...

Life may be a cluttered smog at times...but while the trees keep growing in such delightful countryside like this, know that there is always peace and beauty...somewhere...

All it takes is a little willpower to believe it is there and go seek it out...

glimpses of heritage-listed Temora railway precinct...

Today was a slow drive day...

Weather looked a little unfriendly, so I decided to wander to close-by sights...

I chose to get some idea of the heritage-listed Temora railway precinct...

The main building dates from 1893 and the refreshment room was added in 1912...

The passenger rail service was closed in 1986...

However, privately operated services still use the line connecting the Riverina to other parts of NSW...

And the precinct has been opened to community events e.g. music festivals, markets...

(Next visit will involve more close views on the other side of the line...

The extensive area is only open to the public on a Friday 9am-12 midday + 1st + 3rd Saturdays of the month 9am to 12 midday, so would prefer to get there early...)

But today, I wanted some photos of the nearby silos...

Mainly grain trains travel the Temora line now...

There is something so comforting about hearing the low rumble of a grain train...especially in the midnight hours...

I am living close enough to the line to hear them...