More Midge Orchids
After a month, the colony of midge orchids is still flowering profusely. I don’t know if the flowers […]
Bowie finds a new way
Bowie has found a new path away from the stables so he doesn’t feel as exposed to the […]
Cultivating Chooks
The chickens helped me prepare the vege beds for the next round of planting. We have fenced off […]
Winter Water Baby
Middle horse Auspicious is a real water baby and is often sloshing and splashing water wherever he can find […]
Sunrise at 07:27
A thick band of cloud delayed the sunrise to 7.27am, but it looked good when it arrived.
Silver Sunrise and Soft Rain
With low cloud cover and morning rain, there was no early sunrise, but there was a lovely soft […]
Sunrise 07:21
It was a very changeable morning. There was a beautiful fiery red sunrise at 7.21, the sun disappeared […]
Homeward Bound
The chickens free range during the day eating grass, insects and our dreaded red-legged earth mites and duck under […]
There are no rocks!
Well relatively speaking. After picking up literally tons of rocks by hand over the last 4 years, I […]
Red-tailed Black Cockatoo
Over the last couple of days I have been hearing the breathy screeches of the Red-tailed black cockatoos, but […]
First Sunset
I am always photographing the sunrise as we are on a ridge with open views to the east. Today, […]
Here, There and Everywhere
In the morning, I went out to do a last bit of rock fishing before my neighbour came […]
Different soil types
This is a great image showing the range of soils we have across the property – gutless grey […]
Neighbour
I spotted movement in the bottom paddock and realised my neighbour had arrived and had already started turning […]
Horse-proof Fence
A heavy mist came down just after 7.30 and the horse-proof boundary fence faded into the backgound. When […]
Clearing Showers
We got 41.9mm of rain, which was the highest in the region. Our nearest weather station at Jindong […]
Farmers Friend
The straw necked ibis (Threskiornis spinicollis) is often called the farmers’ friend as it gathers in large flocks to […]
200m Sprint
I was coming back from feeding the Guinea Fowl just after 5.30pm when I saw a massive pale […]
Rock Fishing
I finished slashing the weeds in the new oat paddock today and did a final check for any big […]
Good Enough
We were up a bit earlier than normal so I was busy with the goats when the sun […]
Back in Business
After 2 months of moulting and regenerating, Mama has laid her first egg since May. Ginger has hardly missed […]
Thinking Ahead
Next year we are moving the oats down to the fertile valley floor on the northeast of the […]
Mama back in form
Mama has finished her moult and her comb has been getting redder by the day, so I expect she […]
Two for the price of One
With bonus streaker! The sun first appeared above a bank of clouds at 7.33am, it disappeared behind another […]
Jousting
Three months after his latest injury, 17 y.o. Flash has been assigned some light physio to get his […]
Chicken
Chicken is one of the 2 young bantams our neighbour gave us last year. She is the cuddliest […]
View from the Stables
I didn’t realise we had this view down the valley until I zoomed in on an image taken […]
Rainbow Ridge
We haven’t named the property yet, but Rainbow Ridge pretty well sums it up. We are about 120m […]
Sunrise 07.27
The sun rose through a mist of early morning rain, providing a filter to enhance some great images. […]
Writing and Photography
I don’t want to be a writer, but I do want to tell the story of this beautiful […]
More Rain
We had another 12mm of rain today after a warm night. The minimum was 17 degrees, 10 degrees […]
Reunited
When I went out to bring the chooks in, I spotted young Roo with mum Kanga in the […]
First Snail Orchids
I found a new colony of snail orchids in the burnt forest and they were already in flower. […]
Rib Wattle
The Acacia Nervosa or Rib Wattle are the first of the wattles to flower in the forest. […]
Blue Skies after the Rain
We got over 65mm of rain up to 10am this morning, with most falling overnight, just the way […]
Tiller the Oats
I learned a new word today, well an old word with a different meaning. I was in the […]
Slave to the Sunrise
I have become an addict, a slave to capturing the sunrise. The last few mornings I have tried […]
Home Alone
For the last couple of days, I have seen the young Roo on its own. I am not […]
Developing Udder
Midge is starting to look pregnant and is getting more “private”. I think she can feel her babies […]
Childhood Dream
I was horse mad from 7 years old and 40 years later, I still have all my childhood […]
Baby Goats
Andreas and Sonja had kindly invited me to their goat farm, Koonac, to see a doe kidding, so […]
Misty Morning Mark II
A week after the last misty morning, she turned it on again. The mist got heavier and heavier […]
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