💛 In summer I always enjoy an early-evening walk on our smallholding. No need to get in my car to find nature, I have 8.5ha right here to explore, hoping to see the Barn Owl or some Guinea fowl, but always enjoying the Bluegum trees and beautiful grasses and wild flowers along the way.
We’ve been having extremely hot weather and even my chooks have been
gasping in the heat. My chickens have no problem with winter, but every
summer you can find them listless in the shade, trying to cool off.
Unfortunately chickens don’t bath in water (they have sand baths)
otherwise that would be a quick solution to cooling off! But they do
find shady spots for a bath in the cool sand leaving my garden looking
like a volcanic eruption has taken place!
Here Chi-Chi, the youngest of my pet hens, takes a break amongst the Leopard Lilies and ferns.
Camera : Canon EOS 550D
Taken in my garden (Tarlton, Gauteng, South Africa)
Dedicated to all garden-lovers!
A path in my
garden slowly getting taken over by all the plants after the good rains
we had this last summer (winter here now in South Africa) and if I don’t
do something about it, I’ll soon be crawling around in a jungle!
Taken in my previous garden in Tarlton, Gauteng, South Africa
Camera : Canon EOS 550D
There is nothing more exhilarating than checking up on your
garden plants just as the sun is rising. Everything is smiling in
anticipation of another glorious day!
And two Aloe ferox eagerly await their turn in the sunshine!
Taken in my previous garden in Tarlton, Gauteng, South Africa
Camera : Canon EOS 550D
After months of drought, few experiences can match the sound and smell
of falling rain – unless it is the exhilaration of being caught in it
while working in the garden!
Camera : Canon EOS 550D
Tarlton, Gauteng, South Africa
