Special guests and dry stone walls

The long expanses of dry stone walls near Derrinallum, have always intrigued me. 

They are thought to have been built in the late nineteenth century.

This particular one is called the Hamilton Highway Wall and is part of a dry stone wall heritage trail.

They are remarkable. 

They are actually two walls that start at about 900mm wide and come together  at about 400mm apart with a through stone to hold them together. The centre is filled with small stones and rubble.

I cannot begin to imagine the laborious effort that has gone into their construction.

They are such a compelling part of the landscape there and I love them.

We always pass them on our trip to Warrnambool in the Western District.

We were special guests at Ned and Jake's school on Friday.

We created...

We read....

We visited the classrooms....

We sang.....

We went out for dinner.....

We talked about where we'd been and what we'd been up to.

The boys had been to the Bulldogs vs Cats game.

Jake took his own flag.

Thank you for inviting us boys. We loved it all.

The trip home was spent oohing and ahhing at the amazing cloud formations ( well, I was anyway).

These are whooshing past photos again!

Dad's broad bean seeds were planted a few days ago ( hope I did it correctly!)

This was the woodiest bit of woodland I could find to plant my precious hellebores.

Under the deciduous trees would have been perfect but each hole I tried to dig there, was filled with roots.

So I settled on this little patch under the old apple tree.

There are ten of them but they won't flower now until next Winter.

The jonquils have been growing there for a while and make it even more woodland- ish.

These leucadendrons look so pretty at the moment.

Beautiful little daisies ready to burst into flower.

This was different......the ducks decided to have their meeting on the Taj Mahal...!!

Kiann is looking gorgeous.