Well it has hills....Not sure I would mistake it for the Ozarks but it's pretty and very peaceful looking.
Have you gotten to visit the area where she grew up Helen? Is that a photo you took?
I've never been out of the country but it's on my bucket list.

No I left Australia at nine months of age and haven't been back. It is expensive and a long long flight to get there. It took us two weeks by ship in 1945 to get to this country.

My cousin took the photo on an ancestry.com info gathering trip. She lives on the coast with her mother who was 10 when my mother left. They have lovely accents not the slang you hear Australians speaking on TV and movies. I think they do sound like Mandy Drury on CNBC. The rabbits are back. If you look in the right lower corner and by the log you may see them. Their rabbits make networks of tunnels and have even more babies than our rabbits.

That would've been a long journey for someone with a baby. Good byes must've been much tougher back then, with people assuming that they would never see their family/friends again. Your parents had a sense of adventure and a lot of courage.

Yeh, my mother left her home to go to a strange country. She told me stories of her and her siblings getting into the shed and blowing up stuff with dynamite and riding her horse fast. But she was always telling me to be careful. I am a very careful, cautious person.

It looks like it could be off of HWY 60 near Van Buren, MO.

I was just over there this weekend.

Would love to visit Australia some day.