Friends and sunsets
I have just arrived home from a wonderful dinner… a night out in the bush.…It was an impromptu gathering of three families – neighbours around our age here near Granite Glen.…My darling friend Elle – a gorgeous bubbling well of…
Intruder!
Don’t you hate it when you come home… And someone has been in your house? You feel violated, angry, upset… Especially when you find they have upended your rubbish. … And rifled through your pantry… . And chewed on your…
Sky High over our Dip…
We were working at the yards this week… it’s weaning time. That means we muster in all of our breeders (cows and calves) and seperate them, giving the mothers a rest through the winter before they calve again in the…
Morning Town Ride…
Last week, we had a special treat out here in the Queensland bush.Queensland Rail were sending an old steam train on a journey around the towns… They were sharing a bit of history with schoolchildren and train addicts. I am…
Sepia and Aqua…
It’s been dry here at Granite Glen – a long time since our last proper rain. The grass has dried and faded to a soft burnt sepia. Artistic, sure.Tasty and juicy for our bovine residents.No. Dust has also dulled the…
Hands…
This is kinda Wordless Wednesday … with a few words! … I want to take a whole series of images of two hands… not in the Heath Ledger sense, but in the Granite Glen generational sense. Today’s post is my…
Canine names (and puppy punishment)
Meet the Granite Glen puppies… Sure, you may have seen them before, and followed their progress from Day 1, but now they have NAMES! … My humble apologies to those who painstakingly sorted through the poll to vote for Garth,…
A Mother’s Touch
In another life, I took photos… Not like now, where it’s all about my family, Granite Glen, the animals and me. I took photos for other people, for other reasons. … This is one of my very favourite images… It’s…
Calling on YOU… Help!
I have been having major banner dilemmas here at Bush Babe central… Some of you have missed my old “cows on the horizon” banner… So I have fiddled with fonts And experimented with images… And varying Feels and Looks… And…
How to Blow the Budget and Terrorize the Teenage Porter
I mentioned a few posts ago, that I had run away from Granite Glen. Temporarily, anyway. And it wasn’t that the piles of laundry had finally gotten to me, or the frosts that have started becoming regular visitors to my…