January socials

2 Feb

Here is a round-up of our social media posts from January. This collection is for those who don’t spend much time on Facebook or Instagram, and apologies to those who have already seen these. (Please do click on the gallery photos to see more):

A firey start to the new year, a plant that looks better dead, a handsome puffball, January rain, and the cutest Wooly Bee-fly.

Well that was a dramatic start to 2022...

We checked the fence in the morning and some NYE revelers had driven around in our sand dunes. They smashed into two of the strainer posts we have just put in to complete the last section of fence. Sadly, the car seems to have come off second best with a smashed side window. The posts were dented but stood firm. Throughout January we had lots of posts about our conservation fence. It’s nearly finished!

Then in the afternoon, this was the view from our house as a bushfire burnt through 700 hectares just south of Hattah.

Here’s a flower that looks better dead. The daisy Sticky Longheads (Podotheca angustifolia) has a very boring living phase. But when the little annual releases its wind-blown seeds and dies, the remains carpet the ground as shiny silver and gold stars

Sandy Stilt-Puffball (Battarea phalloides) looking particularly handsome.

It rained! We have puddles. We were fencing in the mud. The dog was not impressed until she found somewhere clean to lie. We had two big rainfall events in January of 34 mm and 54 mm. The total for the month is an amazing 101 mm for the month. That’s the wettest January in our rainfall records, stretching back to 1963.