Blossoms and Dust

Apple blossom, a sign of things to come. We have two of these beauties in the back yard. This one in particular is a prolific producer.

The bark on the apple tree is just beautiful, just begging to be painted.

Pear blossom. Fingers crossed that this year we will get plenty of fruit. They need a lot of hours below 7 degrees Celcius to actually produce fruit.

Here we have our Rooster and a couple of the hens keeping cool in the shade - it is so hot to say it is Winter time. They have hardly slown down with egg production this year, we have been lucky. Nothing beats farm eggs in cake, quiche, scrambled eggs on toast, pancakes.... today's creation is in the oven - lime and coconut cake.

"Love Mandala" - a new piece that is on a 50cm x 50cm timber board.

This one is 25cm x 25cm on timber board. I will be playing with this one using coloured paint. Stay tuned for next weeks reveal. This one will be going into the Etsy shop.

Maggie waits patiently for me to catch up as I head up the back of the paddock to check on the crop.

As I take a snapshot of the Crow Central Café Maggie leaps about in the grass like a gazelle, she is a fun kind of girl!  It is very quiet here this morning, the crows have already moved on to next doors paddock for their feast of cow pat grubs. Yum...

This is the lowest I have seen the dam in years. I have to admit it makes me a little nervous.

With this drought we have to water the garlic every weekend to keep it happy and healthy.

This is what the turmeric looks like in the ground when the leaves have died off completely. The turmeric is still sitting happily underground. We will leave this section here until next year, let it multiply, then dig it up and sell it. We don't use any sprays to control weeds so you can see the stretches of black plastic which help to keep the weeds at bay. Every now and then we go through and pull out any big ones by hand.

Molly's greatest joy in life is to run rings around Doug, satisfying her kelpie need to round something up...anything will do...

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Have a great weekend!