We have some beautiful yellow gold colored birds living in the cattails around the pond. K’Tanawat said that they are called “nok cummin” which translates as “turmeric birds”. Presumably because they are the color of turmeric powder. Unfortunately, my camera is not so good at this level of zoom. I should get a better camera….
A walk around the land to check out the new trees
I am very happy with how the trees have turned out. It is always a bit hard to imagine it before hand, and when the workers are around we are always focused on making sure they don’t run over something important in their truck (which happened), or dig through some of the electric wires when…
It was a glorious sunset yesterday
Yesterday, we took a walk around the land to water trees just before sunset. The sky was amazing… again. The sky in the other direction had a nice rainbow. A bit difficult to make out in the photo, buy if you look carefully you can see it.
Pictures from a week of planting trees
We spent the week this week planting trees. It was quite tiring despite the fact the we didn’t personally have to do any of the actual work. 😉 Praew took the lead here and scoped out the various plant shops around the ring road and chose one. She ordered 14 trees, almost all of them…
Adding water plants into the pond regeneration zone
So the recent rains have helped fill in the pond, and it is finally getting to a height that would allow us to continue planting in the regeneration zone. To review, the principle behind the sand regeneration zone is that water is pumped from pipes under the sand that have small holes in them back…
Pond water level reaches top of the wall for the first time
I noticed that the water level in the pond reached the top of the sand filter retaining wall (just barely) for the first time last weekend. Here are a few photos:
We’re open… but we’re closed
Praew and I spent a few days in Ratchaburi on a work trip of hers. On the way back we stopped for lunch at “Coro field cafe” in Suan Peung District, Ratchaburi. It is part of a little farm that specializes in enclosed greenhouses where they grow Japanese cherry tomatoes and melons that are difficult…
La Toscana: Tuscany in Thailand
Praew and I took a brief trip to Ratchaburi for her work over the past few days. While we were there, she found us a rather nice resort called “La Toscana”. It was Italian villa themed, and while we were a bit worried about it being quite tacky, it was very tastefully done. All-in-all, Praew…
Pictures of God rays
Today, I watched as dark rain clouds appeared to the west and blew in. Earlier this evening, I kicked off a quick blog post about watching the wind and rain hit the land. But in the afternoon, I snapped off a few pictures of the clouds coming in. The rays of light shining down from…
Watching a storm brewing
We’ve spent the last few days at the land with Praew’s mother in BaanMae. Just now a dark storm cloud came blowing in. I feel kinda old saying this but there is something quite enjoyable just sitting on the front balcony in my comfy chair and watching the storm clouds coming in. The wind is…
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