Swallows

Summer is in full swing and everywhere life is abundant and beautiful. 

The baby swallows are not so little anymore. In fact, they now have to perch on a wire for the night.

Wood schleppers

And here are some of the dauntless timber hauliers: Dick Owen from South Wales, Elissa McCulla-Thomas from Austin, Texas, Rae Browne from Oxford, Dot Clark from Auchtermuchty, and some residents, David, Merijn, Anthony, Freya (aged 3) and Maria (hiding).

Orchids in the woods

Walking back from the 'wood schlepping', Wahid pointed out that we have orchids!

In fact, this is a Northern Marsh Orchid or Dactylorhiza Purpurella.

Redecorating the Front Porch

Kerim and Chanda visited for a couple of days, and made a great start on redecorating the entrance pillars, part of getting Chisholme ready for the summer and the Symposium. Hiroko and Angela joined them in the sun.

I went to visit Ben working in Whitrig Wood today. He is milling the stem of a fallen ash tree into workable, and carryable, balks of timber. The area is boggy and inaccessible to tractors, so this Sunday we will all go and work together, lugging and schlepping it to the nearest point of mechanical access. Ben is using an Alaskan mill, designed for just this kind of situation, where the stem cannot be lifted out and taken to a sawmill.

Hakim

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