In Spring, the smell of the eucalypts, the smell of smoke in the evenings ... the beautiful early morning sunrises - so much a part of Australia. We've had some fine Spring weather and lovely sunshine in between showers of rain. The snow still occasionally splatters in the mountains and we still awake to cold frosty mornings. But each day the sun rides higher in the sky and its rays become warmer. Spring mists lay over the Delatite Valley in the early mornings. At dawn we might see the mountains and then the mist will rise and cover us. Black cockatoos cry eerily in the mist. Kookaburra's cackle and magpies warble - the beauty of Spring's sounds.

Rain falls and falls. The water rushes over the paddocks and finds its way into the ancient creek bed. The creek floods and spreads and shafts of sunlight fall through the heavy cloud, illuminating the creek and sheets of water. Our paddocks have become soft and wet underfoot.

Beautiful cloudy days come and go with cumulous clouds in the west, both white and blue black and the east is suffused with gold between layers of cloud. Light flows through those bars of cloud and send crepuscular rays across the sky. Rainbows form and reform. Ever changing lines and patterns, great hollows of dark blue sky, the valley below constantly changes.