Allan & I went out looking at Ring trees & artefacts this week despite the bone chilling westerly. I have come across so many Ring trees in the last few months that I am beginning to think they were more a sculptural thing than a sign for water. Like the ancient arts of bonsai […]
Thanks to Ian McNamara ( Macca ) host of Australia all over ( ABC radio Sunday mornings ) the scartrees have received a bit of publicity lately. He interviewed me back in April on the banks of the dry Barwon and has played the recording a couple of times on his show. Each time […]
I have been spraying cactus & mimosa this week and have been rewarded with finding the loveliest grinding stone I’ve ever seen. It is an oval triangular(ish) prism 53 cm in circumference and 10cm deep so I have photographed it with a pear to give perspective. This beautifully pink mottled river stone was sitting […]
So there was this young Kamilaroi guy getting around 150 years ago who liked to climb trees and carve designs into the bark. Sometimes he took his firestick and burnt holes into the wood as well. He would leave his signature on the very tops of the trees so everyone would know whose work it […]
Years 5 & 6 came out this week to see the scars and various bush tucker trees that live around them. I decided Telinebone would be the best paddock as it is close by with good dirt tracks for the school bus. More importantly though the scartrees there are spectacular, varied and are clustered together in easily accessible groups. There […]
Elaborate scars left by old campfires are found on the side of the tree that leans toward you. Many eucalypts grow on a slant and if your fire was set under the sheltered side it would be protected from the rain. The scars left from the fires are strangely shaped but often have residual burns […]
I’ve come across some interesting trees lately. Much easier on the eyes than looking down at the ground which is starting to resemble a moonscape. Drought has decimated the groundcover out here (except for cactus & noxious weeds). We have had only one good season in the last 6 years so it makes a pretty […]