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Frost Snatches at the Colour
Interesting how the colour drains out of a landscape when you add cold. Cold really does feel blue. After the rain everything greened up. (see below). Then early this morning – our first hard frost. Here are two photos from the same spot. I used the exact same filter / Portrait in the SnapSeed app…
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The Ears Have It
It is pouring down outside. Well, it would look pretty silly if it was pouring up, said the old lady. A calf very sweetly showing us his tongue. Hmm. We have a had a good drop of rain, I can hear the rainwater barrel filling up outside the window – though today the rain barrels…
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Tima Goes To Piggy Jail
Wind this morning and grey wintry skies. The leaves are blowing into drifts. Or straight out onto the plains. After weeks of warm sunny weather we now have warm windy weather with the promise of rain. And the rain will be nice. WaiWai I took the big blue blanket down from the tree and gave…
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Black Cat.
Black Cats are much maligned in our fairy tale books. But what will really happen if a black cat crosses my path? Not much I imagine. I have occasionally seen a black cat here. But only out of the corner of my eye. He is not my cat. He looks very well fed (probably on…
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This Old Barn
No-one knows exactly when this barn was built. Or by whom, but legend has it that before Our John’s Great – Grandfather gutted it to put huge harvesting machines in there, (horrible) it used to house the draft horses that pulled the early farm implements. Plus the house cow and a couple of hogs for…
The Kitchen's Garden 