Batching
Where I try to make friends with a tractor named Chelsey... as you do!
The Log Insect
It's huge and it's creepy. And it poses like a Calvin Klein model. Although I suspect it might be a size or two bigger...
I’ll be missing…
On the road again...
A hack, leaves and some stats
Winter and Bush Babe... not always a happy combination. Luckily the odd deciduous tree, early moon and statistic are on hand to keep her happy. Come on in and share your report!
Chill…
The clouds have lifted... and so has the warm winter weather. A little chill warmed with some fabulous old blue gums. And calling for your weather reports!
World Weather (and weeds)
I admit I am a bit of a cold frog, so the winter woollies have been unearthed already! Some properties around here have even registered the first frosts of the year...
Tough yet vulnerable
Bottle trees (from the boab family) fascinate me endlessly…Officially called Brachychiton rupestris (which sounds to me like some kind of carniverous dinosaur) is described as a succulent, drought-deciduous tree. Which basically means (as far as I can deduce) that it…
November Fairy Dust
At the very end of October, every year, something magical happens around Queensland… Actual Fairies visit one night… And sprinkle a little magic through streets and backyards from the city to the bush… . It’s purple fairy dust!. SEE ……
Oi, Oi, Oi!!!
This is wattle – it’s an Aussie bush currently in bloom around Granite Glen… Now, in a seeminly unrelated question: Are you watching the Olympics? Even if you are not a sports nut, the six-ring circus that is the World…
(Almost) Wordless Wednesday… Ironbark Sentries
At some angles, the trees through which our ‘driveway’ winds appear random, wild, haphazard… . They are called ironbarks, planted by Mother Nature many years ago. Stern, stalwart, steady. . And then, when you look at a certain angle…. it…