Mist-ical drive
I’m not really in the mood for yarning today, folks. Must be the weather (and the mountain of washing, folding, vaccuming and tidying facing me down). Really, I’d rather watch a windmill spin. Anything. I do not heart housework!…Instead, I…
Winter Weather at Granite Glen…
One of the changes that one must undergo when one (or all!) move from the city to the bush is being very much closer to nature… and by extention, the weather. Sure the air is cleaner, the atmosphere clearer and…
Loo with the (Hilton) View, cont’
Last post I shared our little outhouse and its sweeping paddock views. I think I should point out that this is not actually our HOUSE toilet. I know we live in the sticks, an’ all, but we have actual indoor…
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…
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…
A cool change…
Winter is coming to Granite Glen… The mornings are getting nippy and we have had our first frost for the year. … I’m not that keen on frosts – I have enough of a hard time dragging my butt out…
Autumn auto
Wordless Wednesday…
Eye of the (equine) beholder
This is Admiral. He is gorgeous. He’s a chestnut Australian Stock Horse stallion. He’s handsome and gentle and can turn on a pin. He also has lovely dark eyes. And you know me – I can’t simply hold a horse…
Fires, garbage and other rubbish …
Fires have been on our minds around here. But not like in the Northern hemisphere, where seasonal pasture burning is underway. It’s not officially burning season here – that usually takes place as we come out of winter and before…