Red and Green
Zucchini, beans, basil, peas, cucumber, rocket and few little tomatoes. What more could you want.
Smokey Sunset
There is still lots of smoke around from the bushfires which make for eerily beautiful sunsets.
Purple Potatoes
Cooking the first of our home grown potatoes was a real treat and they looked beautiful too.
Margaret River Bushfire
Auspicious keeps an eye on the smoke from the devastating Margaret River Bush Fires. Over 30 homes were […]
All Systems Grow
I have cramed a whole variety of herbs and vegies into the bed. We are still in experiment […]
Potato Crop
I wasn’t expecting much from the potatoes as the leaves had been eaten really badly and the plants […]
Fringed Lily
The fringing on the edge of the petals on this lily make it very different from all the […]
Beautiful Banksia
The new growth on this Banksia looks like a Christmas Poinsettia. I think I will use the image […]
Butterfly Orchid
We have a lot of these around the property, they are the most unusual looking of the orchids.
National Day of Action
The Western Coal Objectors and NO Coal!tion organised a rally in Margaret River as part of the Lock […]
Blue Lobelia
I love the delicate nature of the lobelia compared to the other blue flowers on the property. We […]
First Pruning
All 3000 trees have to be pruned to a single stem and all lower branches removed. Many of […]
Reaching Spider Orchid
I have only found 1 specimen of this plant on the property and they are apparently quite rare. […]
Triffid like Snail Orchids
A rotting log in the west of the property has a massive colony of these snail orchids. They […]
Hiding
Shorty is good with any scaly things, she barks excitedly, but doesn’t get too close. I trained her […]
Rare Plants
Our property borders a rare ironstone plant community and there are a number of rare and interesting plants on the […]
Breakfast Bar
The horses seem to think that the firewood we have stacked outside the house is there just for […]
Arc En Ciel
Sitting on top of the ridge at the edge of the Whicher Range, we see a lot of […]
Winter Rains
It is interesting watching the level in the dam change as the ground gets wet and water starts […]
Purple Haze
This is the first stunning sunrise I have seen since moving into the house. The house is about […]
House Slab with Frame
The polished concrete slab has been delivered to the yard and they are starting to build the house. […]
Rain on New Kikuyu
Woo hoo it rained on our newly planted kikuyu seed in the summer paddock/arena.
The Beach
I went to the beach for the first time since we moved down over a year ago. We […]
Epic Sunrise
I caught this stunning sunrise at 6.08am. Sitting on top of the ridge, we see some amazing skies […]
Together in Life and Death
I arrived back around lunchtime from a trip to Perth and as I drove in I noticed 2 […]
Irrigation Pump at Dam
The Dam will now supply water for the vege garden and will irrigate the summer paddock/arena for the […]
Irrigation – like Spaghetti
Brad and I are doing the irrigation for the summer paddock ourselves. Steve at Aquashed drew up a […]
Just a couple of rocks
Some of the rocks coming out of the trench as almost as big as a small car, well […]
A Hive of Activity
Coastal Earthmoving Contractors will be onsite for 4 days to do all the site prep for the house. […]
A Bounty
We have so many tomatoes now, we are roasting them, slicing them, boiling them and eating them by […]
Quick, Run!
The birds can put on a bit of a sprint when they are heading home at tea time.
Bloomin’ Blossoms
The Marris are full of flowers and smell wonderful. When you walk in the forest, all you can […]
Harvest
The homegrown tomatoes are wonderful and we have tons. We sort of staked them with bamboo, but they […]
Shorty’s first Surf Lesson
She is not a water baby, we have tried swimming with her, but she doesn’t like it. She […]
Like a Mill Pond
The water level in the dam is already receding, although it is still plenty deep enough for diving […]
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