Exploring

Rather than just walking around the regular block, today we took the dogs in to Ballarat, and after doing a couple of other things, took a walk through unfamiliar territory. We started with suburban streets, then we saw this:

You probably can't really read the sign, but it says "Yarrowee Trail Access". So we went to investigate.

It turns out that the Yarrowee Trail is a picturesque track beside the Yarrowee River. We might have to investigate more of the track another time, but today it was pleasant to follow it for half an hour or so.

We left the trail to avoid someone with a large dog that was not on a lead, and found ourselves walking between huge mounds apparently made up of broken bricks and concrete:

I found out through googling when we got home, that it is a business called Ballarat Concrete Recyclers. I don't know how long they have been at this location, but some of the trees and shrubs growing on the piles seemed quite large.

It was an interesting walk, and we will have to check out other parts of the trail in future.

I have now completed 80% of the blocks for the Laundry Basket Quilts mystery:

This is one corner of the quilt as I don't have a big enough space to pin up all the blocks. If you can work out where the centres of each side are, you might be able to see that there are only 5 blocks missing in each quarter.