Tobacco road

Tobacco growing in the King Valley and Myrtleford areas of Victoria is all but extinct - as it should be. However, numerous drying kilns dot the landscape as reminders of how farmers in the area diversified between the wars, and with the influx of European immigrants during the 1950s.

The architecture is intruiging. These examples are to be found at Pizzini's Vineyard in Whitfield.

Distilled life bloods

Winter weighs heavily in the valley, fallow invading the furrow, overlooked fruit wizening on barren sprigs, the juice of the fruit distilling sugars to delicious perfection. Similar to ageing humans ...

A roaring log fire

in a cabin in Myrtleford at the foot of the Victorian High Country.

This is my contribution to the Weekend in Black and White community.

Land of hope

An Andy Murray supporter readies himself for the quarter-final versus Rafael Nadal.

Monochrome Weekend - Post and rail

Post and rail fence, Coal Creek, Gippsland, Victoria

A member of the Monochrome Weekend community.

Skywatch - Gippsland idyll

Before me and behind me, the glories of a setting summer sun on the rolling hills of the Western Gippsland in Victoria, just outside Bena.


A member of the Skywatch Friday community.

A tale of two states: rainfall

Hooves squelching sodden soil lush growth pasturing from Collinsville through New Norfolk while rich loam swirls beneath old Richmond Bridge.

Across Bass Strait - 240kms (150 miles) - lies the state of Victoria .

Ground down by drought for 10 years. Ravaged by bushfires in February. September saw the best spring rains since 2000. Melbourne's catchment area rising to 31% capacity.

Copenhagen must be a mix of both talk and action.