Category: Photography
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What to do when your puppy brings you rat poison
After your heart has sunk. And you have reached into his reluctant mouth and carefully lifted the offending little brick of poison over his teeth and out of his mouth. We were visiting a friend and it was one of those moments when you are chatting and not watching the dogs as closely as you…
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More peacock eggs and big bellies and sleeping cats!
I wonder if peahen eggs is the correct term or peacock eggs. The egg may contain either. It seems the peahens are laying again. Or at least I have found one of their more recent nests. (With a chicken egg in it just for good measure.) The peahens are being very good at staying out…
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Walkabout the Farmy between Storms and a Piggy Anniversary!
I love that word: Storm. It has such weight! Such potential. Such compassion when it storms above your head but does not break it. And such callousness when it does. The dogs and I walked the perimeter with Camera House between squalls yesterday to see what you might see and the benefit of all this…
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Rainbow at the end of the Farmy
The Big Dog still rules the verandah with a firm hand. While the peahens still sneak about avoiding their motherly duties. Thank you for all your excellent ideas for hatching the eggs safely. Giraffe has her own little private run now. Shortly after I took the shot below I threw some grain into her run…
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A peahens egg looks like this
Yes it is the one on the left. I was hoping for speckles or at least something a little distinctive but no they look just like a chickens egg though they are much bigger and even a bit pointier at the end. Too big to fit in this boys mouth. He has been going under…

