BS: Blue Mountains,anyone?!

Subject: Blue Mountains,anyone?!
From: Lena
Date: 28 Oct 00 - 01:48 AM

Ok,just trying to find out if there's any Blue Mountains Mudcatter out there...

Subject: RE: BS: Blue Mountains,anyone?!
From:
Date: 28 Oct 00 - 05:25 AM

Which Blue Mountains do you mean Lena? I live in Blackheath in the NSW Blue Mountains.

Murray

Subject: RE: BS: Blue Mountains,anyone?!
From: Ebbie
Date: 28 Oct 00 - 09:37 PM

NW Oregon has Blue Mountains.

Ebbie

Subject: RE: BS: Blue Mountains,anyone?!
From: Lena
Date: 28 Oct 00 - 09:52 PM

I meant NSW Bluemountains...Murray,are you there?!
(Ebbie,what?!Did oregonese people copy it from OZ or did OZ copy it from ya?!)

Subject: RE: BS: Blue Mountains,anyone?!
From: alison
Date: 29 Oct 00 - 05:03 AM

Roo is in Mountriverview (near Blaxland lower mountains)...

I'm not in the mountains, I'm at Greystanes, about 1/2 way to the foot of them from where you are...

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: BS: Blue Mountains,anyone?!
From: Bob Bolton
Date: 29 Oct 00 - 05:16 AM

G'day Lena,

I'm working on a few folkies up in our NSW Blue Mountains ... but they are all Luddites who left the technological city behind and look askance at all this techno-folking.

Regards,

Bob Bolton

Subject: RE: BS: Blue Mountains,anyone?!
From: alison
Date: 29 Oct 00 - 05:21 AM

I should point out that "Roo" does the wonderful

Folk Australia web site... and has some great house concerts at her home....

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: BS: Blue Mountains,anyone?!
From: Ebbie
Date: 29 Oct 00 - 04:37 PM

Gracious, Lena! I have no idea- but I imagine that most of the folks who peopled the Oregon Territory didn't know a whole lot about Australia.

And of course, there's the Blue Ridge mountains running north and south from the Alleghanies to Georgia. (By the way, I suspect I made that up- I really don't remember where they begin.)

In both cases I expect they got the name from the vegetation- like juniper and sage and the blue spruce, but I'm open to correction.

Ebbie

Subject: RE: BS: Blue Mountains,anyone?!
From: Bob Bolton
Date: 29 Oct 00 - 09:12 PM

G'day Ebbie (and Lena, of course,)

When you get pioneer people settling in a new land (to them, anyway) they tend to be pretty straightforward in the way they name things. Mountains tend to look a bit blue anyway, just because of the distance haze, but when they also have blueish vegetation (like our Sydney Blue Gum or your juniper and sage and blue spruce) then they are "blue mountains" and that is what they are called.

regards,

Bob Bolton