A Day Out In Mudgee

Each year we like to head over to Mudgee to visit the Sculptures in the Garden exhibition.  This year we had a beautiful day to go for our drive.

We enjoy just wandering around looking at all the varied art on display.

Much of it is large.

Some tiny.

All sorts of mediums.

We always like to check out the vege garden, which also is adorned with sculptures.

You could have bought this horse for $25,000. Oh yes, someone did…. Still probably cheaper than keeping a horse.  It is beautifully crafted and the pose so natural.

We saw this one pass through town on the back of a ute earlier in the week and correctly guessed the destination.

Here are a few more that caught our eye.

The event is a fundraiser for the Guide Dogs and the all other profits are used to purchase sculptures as public art for the region.

We finished having our wander around in time to find a nice cafe in town for lunch.  We tried a new to us venue, which proved to be a great discovery.

When you see a special described like this you have to give it a go.

It was very good, as was Mick’s burger.

After lunch we had a bit of a wander around the street, coming across the rather new statue of Louisa Lawson.  She is probably best known as being the mother of poet Henry Lawson.  

However, she was a rather impressive person in her own right.

Mudgee dresses up in pink during October for breast cancer awareness month, so Louisa was getting in on the act.

The plinth she was sitting on was appropriately a pile of books.

The next part of our day out was to see if we could get close to the wind farm that we see when travelling to Hill End.  We thought that by driving along the Crudine Road we would be fairly close to them.  In years gone by, when we visited the Mudgee Small Farms Field Days, we would always travel home via a different route.  We are lucky that there is a veritable labyrinth of small roads in the area.  We would not have travelled on this road for probably 20 years, so would be fun to revisit.

It reminded us a little of South Australia, as there were lots of little abandoned cottages and huts, although these were generally built of corrugated iron.

This would have been a lovely home.  So sad to see it empty.

Well, we miscalculated on which road to traverse to get a better look at the wind farm, as it was to the other side of the ridge of hills.  However, it was still a very scenic drive home.