Reused

Ah, my favourite bit of Launceston: Inveresk (can you tell?). It's hard for me to imagine what this place was like, back when it was still a functioning industrial site - particularly when the trees are looking so green and leafy. It's a subject that's been done to death recently in art, but something really appeals to me about nature reclaiming a derelict industrial site.

Of course, in this case, it's nothing to do with nature doing it's thing - as is probably quite obvious, this is a nicely landscaped and deliberately planned reclamation where the grass and rusty rails are both integral. Full points to the people who made it happen.

(The coffee is also excellent from the local cafe, by the way...)

A park in the city

Formerly a rubbish pit, brickfields, and home to a gallows - it's been an interesting time for the block of land now known as Prince's Square. For the last 150 years or so, it's been one of Launceston's nicest - if under-appreciated - public spaces.

Alfresco

Alfresco dining - or there will be, when it gets to lunch time. Charles Street.

Hope everyone had a splendid Christmas, end of year celebration, or just a neat-o 25th December.

Slice

Just another slice of a day in Launceston. Somewhere around Frederick Street, I wager.

Royal Park

A bench, a tree, and a flood retention wall pretending to be bleachers.

Royal Park  is a remnant of the early attempts to dredge the Tamar basin - basically, the whole thing is an accumulation of dumped river silt. The original shoreline (or what passed for it, given it was probably semi-tidal wetlands) was about another 50 metres further on from the concrete wall in background.