My friend's 12 month old Golden Retriever pup - Mahler

For once I don't have too many photos to show. I headed out to Orange to catch up with a couple of friends I hadn't seen in nearly two years (I'd been bad in keeping up with people for a long time). I headed out early on Saturday morning, with the full knowledge that I had a long weekend rather than the short two day recovery period. I arrived in around about 3 hours 45 minutes excluding stops, which wasn't too bad considering the grey hair brigade that I hit at on the way into Lithgow that didn't realise, or chose to ignore, that when you're towing a trailer and struggling to hit 50km/h on the uphill (yet cruise happily along at the speed limit on the downhills) it's probably a good idea to pull over every so often and let the thirty to fifty cars you've got tailing you pass.

While up there I discovered the following interesting facts about Orange:

• There's a massive big hole in the ground - and when I mean massive I mean it! Over half vertical a km of ore has been pulled out!


• Water's an issue - they've not had the floods... yet...


• Houses vary substantially in prices! And it's far more expensive than I would have thought in town!


• If anyone wants to know of a business opportunity - good quality coffee in Orange would be a start! (best coffee was that I had at my friends place!)


• Puppies are invariably cute - and rather photogenic (when not attempting to eat the camera


• Good friends always will be!

I only ended up taking a few shots this trip - was definitely more about spending some time with old friends. Those I did I was able to play around with Lucky's new Photoshop Action set.