It’s All About the Stories

It’s All About the Stories

Dec 6, 2017 | Conservation, Design, Nature, Personal

On Excelsior there are the remains of an old paddock – it was almost intact, still, when I first saw it years ago but since then a few of the fence posts have fallen of their own volition, perhaps helped along by cattle looking for new ways to scratch their backs, and...
A Homage to the Digger Pine

A Homage to the Digger Pine

Jan 24, 2015 | Nature

The Digger Pine (aka the Gray Pine, or the Ghost Pine) captured my attention when we first moved onto our five-acre homestead many years ago.  Wisping faintly above our monoculture of young, overcrowded blue and live oaks, the irregular, outstretched limbs of the...