It must be the time of year when wood ducks start pairing up..I've noticed quite a few pairs grazing together on the lawns of properties down in the Rock Valley as well as on our own lawns.
Moving up here has meant that we've had the opportunity to eat fruits we'd not tried before. We've loved eating black sapote (also called chocolate pudding fruit), didn't care much for dragon fruit and tonight we tried custard apple - which was beautiful! Recommended!
The weather up here over the pasr few weeks has been rather iffy, in fact it's been quite cold some days. But the weekend was beautiful and today was perfect. 23 degrees, blue sky, not a cloud to be seen. So we headed off this morning to the Channon Market to meet up with our friends Stewart and Matt who live in Georgica which is in the Jiggi Valley. The pic is of the Chai Tent which is a kind of meeting place, chill out zone where one can buy organic chai tea and, other substances, I've been told, later on in the afternoon.
We bought plants of other kinds, buying a native gardenia, some gingers, some cliveas, a himalayan iris and a himalayan magnolia, amongst others. Got back home around 12.30 and spent the afternoon walking over the property, checking out the creeks, and picking bush lemons. Steve made a rather tangy lemon cheese slice with the bush lemons on Wednesday and we also juiced some of our tangellos (we thought they were oranges) for breakfast this morning to have with our porridge.
I drive up to Uni of Qld tomorrow in Brisbane for a day-long seminar, back home tomorrow evening and then after I have finished teaching on Tuesday morning I drive down to our Coffs Harbour campus for meetings with staff who I supervise.
Oh and the good news - our bowerbird has rebuilt his bower and its looking better than ever.
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