SkyWatch - Early morning ride

Early in the morning when I fed the chickens

I spied my roses flowering in winter,

lighting up the fog

By the time we were finished at the Farmers' Market,

the sky was blue and clouds came rolling in

fun to watch and drive by shoot

since my daughter drove me

 in my new, second hand UTE.

The white clouds were rising and the grey ones coming down

and by the time we got home,

it had clouded over.

No complaints, we really need the rain.

Linking with SkyWatch

Watery Wednesday & Skywatch - Glorious Fog

We had some glorious rain this week

and now are enveloped in equally glorious fog

as long as the air is moist, the garden flourishes

A big thank you to all of you who came by.

I have been rather time restricted

with my brother-in-law here for a week from Colorado

to strew the last of his brothers ashes.

Life is a very fragile thing

enjoy it now while you have if.

Linking with Watery Wednesday

and Skywatch

OUR WORLD & Nature Notes - Everyday Farmlife

A pea soup kind of summer morning

with sheep sheepishly wandering back and forth

in the holding paddock between the houses,

after having fly-strike attended to.

We have been beset with a new kind of maggot that is hairy 

and breeds both in wet wool as well as under the skin.

Very nasty!

Meanwhile, the goose who sat on her infertile eggs and 

had a couple of blue bantam eggs added to the mix, has 

brought forth two dear little chicks.

Unfortunately, a goose being a goose, gave them their first 

swimming lesson in the lily pond, from which two wet

and distressed shipwrecked chicks on a rock were rescued

by passing younger granddaughter.

Guess who looks after them now? Yup, they share by bed with 

the electric blanket on 1 on their side, snug and warm in their 

ice-cream container, tucked up in their fluffy blanked I hastily

knitted for them last night.

They feasted on boiled egg

and promptly went to sleep.

I do hope they are a pigeon pair so I get a rooster for my 

three hens and a chicken that lays blue eggs.

Isn't it lovely to be forever living in hope?

Linking with OUR WORLD

and Nature Notes

Wild Bird Wednesday & Nature Notes - On a Cold and Foggy Morning . . .

A cold and foggy morning 

comforting to look out at from a warm and cosy bed

but not so nice for little birds with clammy feathers

their shoulders hunched up

seeking the first rays of the thin yet

warming winter sun

as I was giving my dog his morning brushing massage,

a flock of about 10-12 welcome swallows,

Hirunda neoxena,

 flew in and spread themselves on my pergola

some eight feet from us

they were there again the next morning as I 

left my room to groom the dog

they even let me walk to the front of the pergola

to photograph them in better light

just quietly meditating with the rising sun . . .

So comforting to have the birds come and companion sit.

Linking with Stewart's

Wild Bird Wednesdayhttp://paying-ready-attention-gallery.blogspot.com.au 

and 

Michelle's Nature Notes

SkyWatch - Fog

Early morning, I wondered why the sun was still abed,

one look out the window and I levitated out of bed snatching

at my camera 

the paddocks softened by the scattered light

down the hill, the houses were fading away

but up the hill, the blanket of grey grew ever thicker

until it gobbled up the trees and shrubs and ground and 

indiscriminately hid the sheep and kangaroos . . .

as well of course, the sky.

SkyWatch - Winter Sunrise

Captured on my early morning foray to the Angaston farmers' 

market.

As the sun lights up the landscape, you can see a touch of frost

and a stand of willows in the distance shivering in the cold 

of the morning.

Valley fog trails across the road

and lingers in low lying meadows.

Hope you all have great skies wherever you are!

SkyWatch ~ Fog

Wake up in the morning, look out the window and see . . .

nothing???

Well, nothing but the closest roses to my window.

At least the fog camouflages most of the weeds . . .

You can hardly see to the end of the house . . .

whatever happened to my view?

The fence has faded . . .

so have the roses on the fence-line

the roses have disappeared on the arch and the paddock

beyond is just a blur.

Oh well, at least it's good for the plants to soak up all that moisture.

Happy SkyWatching everyone!

SkyWatch & Nature Notes ~ Fog

Fog, like a creeping thief

came silently at night

stealing away the hills

and houses that we knew

trees close at hand

loom up like ghosts,

the jewelled pond at sunset

is tucked within the bag upon his back

and is no more.

Only the nearest garden fence

has some existence,

all else has gone into

a whiteness dense as rock,

no sky, no landmark

and no sound or call

an eerie stillness

blankets over all

and still he creeps . . .

dim headlights loom

and tremble as they

inch upon their way

where all that yesterday

was bright and gay

on waking ,

has been spirited away.

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SkyWatch ~ 30 A Foggy Dawn

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Yesterday I got up pre-dawn and drove to get
some fog shots for you. I hurried to this spot to
catch the sunrise over the valley fog. I like the
way the first rays of the sun are tinging the edge
of the rising fog.



Then the sun rose like God coming to earth



and woke the world with blinding force



on the way home, a couple of kangaroos on our
foggy wood lot, then home to breakfast.

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