For three years travellers on the Mid-Western Highway have been greeted with massive billboards welcoming them to the Blayney shire.
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Over the years though those signs, created by local artist and Wiradjuri woman Nyree Reynolds and depicting a Blayney sunrise over the landscape with local mountains, travel lines and a gathering place for community, have faded and become damaged by the weather.
With Blayney council now a part of Orange360, those signs have been replaced and funded out of council's tourism promotions budget, albeit without any mention of Blayney itself written on them.
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"Orange360 is our destination marketing organisation for Blayney, Orange and Cabonne, said the Manager of Tourism and Communications Megan Rodd.
"So we want to recognise that as you come into the Shire."
"The billboards sit just inside the Welcome to Blayney Shire signs at the Council boundaries."
Ms Reynolds said that for her it's all about giving people that real sense of being on Wiradjuri country.
"This is the exact view you get when you come into Blayney on King's Plains just near the other billboard," she said.
"It really immerses people into country as they look across at Gaanhabula (Mt Canobolas)."
Mark Logan
Started working in newspapers in the 1990's in the darkroom of the Pastoral Times in Deniliquin before moving to Millthorpe in 2003. Soon after arriving I started as a photographer at the CWD. Now a journalist at the Blayney Chronicle.
Started working in newspapers in the 1990's in the darkroom of the Pastoral Times in Deniliquin before moving to Millthorpe in 2003. Soon after arriving I started as a photographer at the CWD. Now a journalist at the Blayney Chronicle.
