Mustering scenes
I’m taking a moment out from my current obsession – the Willy Wagtail family in our laundry. I have new (fuzzy) photos coming up of the amazing wagtail babies (oh, what I would give for a REAL macro lens right…
Mother Nature and Me: the bird files
As you saw yesterday, I decided to give Mother Nature (and her little friends Mr and Mrs Willy Wagtail) a bit of a helping hand when that dastardly old Gravity started to get too strong a grip on their dainty…
The Answer… and Bush Babe to the rescue!
Congratulations Pam (A Novel Woman) for her imaginative entry this week! … And the REAL ANSWER is… A bird’s nest. (But you knew that already, clever readers!) But it’s not just any birds nest, its a WILLY WAGTAIL’s birds nest.…
Mystery Photo Winner!
And the winner is … PAM! … The Novel Woman (from Canada) really tickled my funny bone with her entertaining rendition my lightening trip to North America to capture footage of her dust bunnies (clearly a woman after my own…
Mystery Photo time!
It’s that time again… when you get to put your thinking caps on and answer a little mystery for me… This week’s mystery pic is something very close to home. Something I have kinda posted about before. But not really.…
Before and After (the fires)
The landscape around Granite Glen is ever-changing.Do you remember how there had been some planned burning ’round here recently?It’s something we do when we need to clear some of the old dry grass from the paddocks, and let the new…
Sunset Yoga
I’m not much into alternative therapies. Don’t get me wrong – I enjoy a bit of mediation music with the best of them. I’ve even done Yoga on occasion and thought it was great. Very stretchy. Invigorating even. But that…
Sale-oh!
We have been away. I actually don’t like being away from here very much. Especially for bull sales. It’s not that I hate saying goodbye to the bovine buddies who have roamed our house paddock for a few months (actually…
Guest post: Lou Lou visits GG
INTRO: You may recall (if you have been paying attention) that my friend Lou Lou came to visit Granite Glen, after many years of promising to tear herself, her hubby Oby and Chicos (now-four-year-old twins) away from the glorious Sunshine…
Fixing the trough…
This week, we had a call from a neighbour who had been pig-shooting in one of our paddocks. Wild pigs are hideous and feral and ugly we are more than happy for someone to reduce their numbers and help keep…