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(ice on the bird bath on a frosty morning)

Winter 2010

This seems more like winters that I remember from 20 or more years ago. we have had a series of cold fronts coming off the southern ocean bring rain every few days. It has not been bitterly cold (although we did have two very cold days just when we had to plant out a shipment of 100 bare rooted grafted walnut trees - possibly the most unpleasant days so far this winter!) 

The ground is wet as far down as you want to dig and it looks like a good Spring coming up. 


About DeadHorseCreek

Dead Horse Creek is situated in a picturesque valley in the southern foothills of Victoria's eastern ranges. We have enough rainfall (about a metre a year in non-drought years) to remain green all through summer and, with 2 permanent creeks, we manage to escape the Australian archetype of the "Wide Brown Land" during summer. 

We are surrounded by bush* on two sides and farms on the other two (see Farm Photos).

With the bush to the south and east, we are protected from the worst of the bushfire season with the prevailing wind pattern in summer coming from the north and west, especially on hot days.   


Previous seasonal headers:

Autumn 2010 #2

Autumn 2010 #1

Summer 2009

Spring 2009

Winter 2009

Autumn 2009

Fires, February '09

Summer '09

Spring '08

Winter '08

Autumn '08

Spring '07

April '07

 

 

 * Australian for "forest", for the benefit of any international readers