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Ive been getting a lot of technical emails from my web server about inodes & load speeds & VPS that I don’t understand but the general gist is I have way too many photos of trees on this website. Although Im still uploading photos with 800 pixels the size & quality of these pictures are […]
The rush of a combined shearing/lambmarking is over to be followed by a stop start harvest. Grain can’t be stripped when its wet and too much rain and cloudy weather will downgrade and devalue the crop. A dry sowing period followed by a wet growing season & then a dry harvest is the ideal. This […]
For the Gomilaroi diaspora (mob) Shearing time and lambmarking brings me into contact with more Trees in Trees as ewes and lambs are very slow and I’m mustering all the grazing paddocks (about 30,000 acres). The more I see, the more fascinating these TinTs are but the questions about their origins remain and the […]
I’m more conscious now of the close links between the Gomilaroi and Waiwun people and how they occupied the countryside pre 1788. When rivers fail in massive climate upheavals like the last iceage they leave their traces in the landscape. Here along the paleo river there are huge sand deposits with redgum lined lagoons […]
It’s a difficult time to be travelling anywhere in the world but we managed to get up to the Carnarvon Gorge in Qld last weekend. The revolving door that is our state border has closed again today which makes it inconvenient for towns like Mungindi, Hebel & Boggabilla but nowhere near as grim as […]
I’m gradually putting together a list of super-camps spread across the Murrumanaarr landscape. These camps are quite extensive and contain all the prerequisites for a comfortable life. The first priority is obviously water and the super camps have this above and below ground. Good billabongs are required to hold surface water and I think […]
When Frankie’s wife rang from Dubbo base saying he wanted to see us, we knew Frankie wasn’t ever coming home. The operation had bought him more time but now that was used up and we were trudging down those long antiseptic hospital corridors to say goodbye. I can’t remember what we’d told the kids […]
I came upon 2 new Trees in Trees out looking for missing sheep this week. The first was a TinT twinset with a stand of unfamiliar small trees in between. Whitewood (Atalaya hemiglauca) has joined the exclusive guest list of native tree types living in old boxtrees. From most to least common we have […]
‘Hey Frankie’, I smiled at my Kamilaroi mate who had given up his Sunday bowls tournament to come out scartree hunting with me. Frankie waved as he eased himself out of his patchy purple “coon car” as he called it and closed the door carefully to prevent it falling off its hinges entirely. I had […]
Hi all, below is an email I sent to about 30 CMT contacts this week and have had 3 replies. My job is to bring these trees to public attention. It is for academics & aboriginals to discover the ‘how’ & ‘why’, as I only do the ‘show’. I am trying to create 2 new […]