New ferns unfurling are so architecturally beautiful I can’t resist snapping them at every possible opportunity.  This one looks much like the caterpillars I fear are invading my cabbages. But I won’t hold that against it.

It’s been damp but warm – a little like being out in a jungle.  The cicadas singing added a raw quality to our basset walk today.  Things are lush in the bush but not perfect.  I love the way that things are thriving and dying.  Renewing and growing.  Nature’s balance in a beautiful but untidy [...]

I still get nightmares if I think of triffids so I’m ever so careful checking what’s happening down in the kitchen garden in case something starts to stir where it shouldn’t.  You never know what these beans might be in disguise.  It’s the way that they grow and curl themselves around the bamboo cane that [...]

Bassets can be the most stubborn dogs in the world.  The most willful and uncooperative.  Especially when it comes to being photogenic in the wonderful evening sun.  Do you think I could entice them to play nicely in the sunshine?  I did at least have a lovely time basset wrestling.  Even if it isn’t the [...]

I may have the completion certificate for building our house but the end is still far away.  Everywhere you turn there is something more needed to finish things off.  But step by step we are working our way through the list.  Like finishing touches to the gate posts.   It’s a sad life indeed when [...]

As if by magic things are growing in the kitchen garden.  It’s been such a pleasure to be staking and tying up the tomatoes, building a brassica netting and spending time admiring how nature works.  I just wished this fennel bulbs were a little more grown up as MT was in need of some fennel [...]

It never ceases to amaze me how when you least expect it a photo moment comes along.  The sun peaking through the grass to illuminate this flower by the door onto the veranda.  Just as I was scooting along at speed and didn’t really have time to stop and admire.  But I did.