Brigitte’s autumn hideaway

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In New Zealand we celebrate the beginning of Spring with the first day of September.

In October the farmers and veterinarian will be busy with lambing.

This lovely sheep had her lambs much earlier.

I enjoy the warmer days for small walks not far away from our house.
This by example is a way up to a summit.

The broom will be covered with yellow blossoms soon and is so high you can’t see anything.

On the top you can catch a glimpse of snow by the faraway mountains.

We have no snow down here but instead a lot of blooming trees and flowers
Our garden is full of interesting animals like this live bearing ‘copper skink’ which can be found only on the North island of New Zealand.

Our rabbits are also developing great and Fluffy is one who we take inside from time to time. He is Aileen’s favorite except for Anna of course

We enjoy the last days of winter and are looking forward for an exciting Spring

When you drive  SH53 over to Martinborough you will pass the ‘Once upon farm’

There are lovely farm animals like high land cows and a bunch of donkeys.

Our kids always enjoy to see the emu which is walking along the ways between pigs and Alpacas

Winter in our region doesn’t mean snow but it can be chilly and frosty…
… we are really glad to have a pellet oven!
I wrote about a convenient and free cleaning preparation for the resins on the window. Please click here if interested.

Our garden has still things growing…

… and even our mystery plant is growing higher. Maybe she will reveal some buds some day and we can identify her.

In a corner were the hazel tree grows we found a ‘Drosselschmiede’ (translated thrush smithy)

A thrush has collected all hazelnuts in a hollow log and opened them on a stone.

The cocoon of the Emperor moth is still in our house and I am curious when we will see the moth.

Outside some bumble bees are still buzzing around.

But the cold weather makes them lazy and I guess they prefer now to stay underground in their homes.
I enjoy the last rose…

… and welcome new eucalyptus blossoms.

Winter in New Zealand is soooooo different from what I grew up and I miss the walks into the snowy forest to visit trees with squirrels peeking out…

… and feeding the wild live with hay and apples…

Gosh I found a draft I never published!
This is of our girls when they have been little!

Aileen was teaching Emy some tricks.

While Rosie strayed around and was looking what the boys were up to

“Hey guys! Share the fun with me!”

Now this girls are already Mums!
Here are Rosie’s little babies.

We moved the rabbits into a save hutch and this is also an older pic…

… with Aileen in the run out with Emy.

You can follow all the rabbit stories on Benny’s blog. Please click here.

We have a lot of rain at the moment… since 3 weeks to be exactly… but that can’t stop our kids from playing outside…

… they have a lot of fun in the sand pit…

… and even use the hose to make a waterfall!

Today we had a few moments of sun and a beautiful rainbow showed it’s lovely colours over our place.

David and Aileen went to a mushroom hunt in our ‘wild corner’

There are a lot fungi on tree stomps…

… but also on the ground like this orange cuties around my yarrow

The biggest surprise today was this little patch of mushrooms I first thought might be puff balls…

… but look at this!
This are lovely white buds (Champignon in German and Agaricus bisporus in Latin) growing in our little forest!
Yum! What a great lunch!