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photography, sea, seasons, southwestern Fleurieu, summer, water
The magic hour hits the cliffs at Lady Bay.
It’s now officially autumn, and already the air feels a little different. There’s a cool edge to the mornings, and a hint of moisture to the air. The land still feels dry, but we tell ourselves it won’t be long now.
Light on the Little Gorge, Lady Bay
Clouds gather over Rapid Head
Sunset from Second Valley
Sundown sky over Normanville
Yarnauwi Farm 
Beautiful thanks! So glad Anniken got to visit with you! Blessings Larkin
Hi Larkin, thanks for your comment! It was great to have some visitors from the northern hemisphere too!
Have you looked in to the Kaurna interpretation of seasonality? I find that the most useful for land management (Boandik nation here) – six seasons that actually make sense with regard to what we are experiencing rather than the European four. Much value for all Australians in embracing local indigenous seasons, blessed are we in areas where we have not lost that precious ancient knowledge http://www.users.on.net/~arachne/kaurna.jpg
Hey again Sharn. A great thought. We’ve started developing an annual farm calendar where we map the Kaurna seasons against rainfall and our own seasonal observations and various seasonal farm tasks. It definitely adds some depth to our own seasonal observations and makes a lot of sense!
Fantastic! Please consider a future post about farm record keeping – not a dry topic at all (especially for rainfall data ha ha – I crack me up), and some fascinating learning to be had if you can find a farmer in your region that has been keeping records for decades. Its critical for learning and continuous improvement, but sadly we don’t do it at all yet for lack of time, even when it is a time saver in to the future 😦
Great idea – will do Sharn. In May we’re hoping to have our first farm tour, and while there’s still not a huge amount on the ground to see, we’re intending to focus on sharing our planning and record-keeping processes. We’ll also share them here for those beyond the Fleurieu that might be interested. Stay tuned!