A golden hour

These photos were taken on our recent (October) holiday to Orange. 

Mr Moo and I spend a lovely afternoon in Cook Park with our kids and their cousins. It was the last hour of the day, just before sunset... some people call it the 'golden hour', some people call it the 'magic hour'. It certainly was both golden and magical, 

as I watched the children run about with pure unhurried joy. 

Laughing, exploring, collecting, climbing, smelling, skipping, dancing,

giggling, singing, posing, chatting.

Cook Park is a special place to me. The air was crisp, the light was dappled, the earth smelt damp. I am sure that the fairies were hidden within the blooms on that wonderful afternoon.  

Some of my favourite photos from our trip are amongst these pictures.

Orange

After 3 days of driving, we finally made it to our destination.


We have been spending our holidays with my cousin and her beautiful family and discovering their new town.

We were welcomed with the usual hospitality.

On our first day, we spent five relaxing hours at the beautiful, beautiful, Cook Park. My cousin had packed a picnic lunch of ham and salad rolls, cordial, lemon syrup cake and tea for the mums and home-baked cookies for the kids. (you can find both of the recipes here)

Our spring weather has been the same as a Queensland winter, except on this day, a few days ago. It was 11 degrees when this photo was taken. The temperature never gets this low during the day were we live. We loved it.

There will be heaps more photos of our travels over the following days, as I will be joining in with Blogtoberfest again this year.

I hope I don't bore you, there will be lots of photos of bare trees and new blooms to come. The climate and landscape are so different, to where we live, that I'll admit to going a little bit blossom crazy.

Go here, to see who else will be blogging daily for Blogtoberfest.