Thursday, November 5, 2015

Photos - some of the reasons I live where I live


This is a little patch of scrub that was left standing when the remainder of the paddocks was cleared. I'm so grateful the previous owners left it. It's a lovely quiet spot!


These two photos are taken down the Anabranch. An anabranch is a branch off a river - where it comes out and then goes back into the river. This is permanent water. The tyre tube was left there in the last flood.


I love bauhinia trees (above). They are a native to this area. The photo on the left was taken at the end of winter when it loses alot of it's leaves and goes a lovely brown/autumny colour. Then the leaves turn green and we get beautiful flowers. The stock love to eat this tree and it's also a lovely shade tree.

Lime bush. It's very prickly when small and doesn't normally have fruit on it, although this year they did. The taller tree on the left is a normal mature tree. They've been loaded with lovely fruit. Normally we have a lot of fruit fly in them, but not this year.
My kombucha on the left and kefir on the right. Ginger and Bush lime.

Wildflowers.
I like to eat our own meat, milk, cheese, yoghurt.


And of course mushrooms come most years in spring rain. This is my mushroom and rosemary salt.






4 comments:

  1. Lovely to get an overall view of your place. I have just recently started making kefir, so will go and search to see what else you ahve to say aobut it. so far I have been adding grated ginger and turmeric with a slice of lemon peel.

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    1. Not sure if I've written much about kefir. My favourite way is ginger and lemon or lime juice, and I don't think I've done any others. The bush lime worked in the kefir, but not in the kombucha.

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  2. Yeah that's a good number.....not average for us unfortunately!

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