The Long Paddock

These stunning autumn trees are part of what we call The Long Paddock.

It is a sweep of land that runs down the eastern side of our house  and adjoins the orchard at the back of the property.
It has been used for football matches, a place to ride motorbikes, a golf hole (par 3 according to Sam and Amy...terrible rough though apparently!), a riding track for Clancy, a speedway for The Moke or just a nice place to stroll around the farm. It also provides access to the woodman who dumps a load of wood up there each year for Winter.

 This is how it looked the day after the fire. The tracks have all been made by vehicles of one sort or another that passed through our property that day. It's quite weird how the trees all seem to look okay. 

This is how the long paddock looks today.

The brown of course is not autumn colouring, just dead. Plenty of green though.We will get our mulching people back to mulch up the stacks of dead material that Bill has made. That way we get to keep the valuable mulch to use on the garden beds.

This is looking back the other way towards the pond.

And today........

 We will always be in awe of how nature works. The largest and  smallest of trees are all showing new signs of life and we couldn't be happier about that. 

Thank you for the buckets Jo. I love them. I dug up 3 huge clumps of daffodils and plan to put them around the pond. Bill has tried digging some patches there for me, but even his brand new fork wasn't up to the task. Thank goodness the trusty crowbar survived the fire because I think that's what we (Bill, that is) will be using!!