May 15, 2021

I need to take a bit of a break from the daily photos. 

It’s been an incredible journey that started back on January 1, 2013 as a year-long personal challenge to capture the beauty in each day on the farm… and it just kept going. But after 8 years & over 2,900 posts I need to stop for a bit. 

Thank you all for being part of this journey. I am truly honoured by the level of interest in the day-to-day happenings on our farm. Never in my wildest dreams did I foresee that my photos would touch so many people from all over world. 

Thank you xx

May 14, 2021

A male Zebra Finch, showing us his distinctive orange cheek.

May 13, 2021

Dewdrops

May 12, 2021

Mid-week date today to get our Covid AZ vaccine #1 #jabdone

May 11, 2021

Tonight’s pretty sunset

May 10, 2021

Sowing lucerne

May 9, 2021

One so small

May 8, 2021

Soaking up the morning sun

May 7, 2021

Modifications

May 6, 2021

Preparing to sow down to lucerne

May 5, 2021

Flying fish

May 4, 2021

In the golden light

May 3, 2021

 

Rain showers

May 2, 2021

Rainfall scarf 

You may recall during 2020 I documented the maximum temperature of each day by knitting a temperature scarf. This year I’m knitting a rainfall scarf, one row per day for the year, using shades of blue when it rains & eyelet rows to separate the months. Knitted in hand-dyed mini skeins from Dyeing to Knit & Cloud Forest Yarns. 

We don’t get a huge amount of rain; our long-term yearly average rainfall is 433mm (17”) & 52 wet days. We will see how this plays out during the year. And yes… that is only 0.5mm for all of April. We are hoping for some rain real soon.

May 1, 2021

Stark contrast between what was watered… and what wasn’t.