I made a 15 minute video tour of the gardens and parkland here and two things went wrong - at 12 minutes I mixed up the pause and record and the last bit was lots of footage of my feet, sky, tops of trees, avant garde angles on agricultural machinery and piles of rusty metal, and none of the bits I actually wanted to show you. The second wrong is that's way too big and I am a lazy editor of video, so I just put it on You Tube and have added links. (I'll probably delete it again in a couple of weeks.)
Those are the big wrongs. The whole thing is an ongoing catelogue of little wrongs,... my commentary, turning the camera around (which is just plain weird and might make you seasick), moving too fast in places and not settling long enough on things to focus on....
You have been warned.
Hari OM
ReplyDeleteI took the longer tour and thank you for it... a lovely place. In 20 years, you too could have such views!!! YAM xx
I can dream. I don't have access to the irrigation water that makes all this possible.
ReplyDeleteI watched both versions and enjoyed them very much. Thank you. What a lovely place to live - so much space.
ReplyDeleteThey have 20 acres (8 hA) and the garden yard is about 1/4 of that. The rest is livestock paddocks or haymaking and stands of trees for firewood and special veneer timbers.
DeleteWhen you said Estate you were 100 % right. WOW, I did take the long tour and can't even find words to describe how beautiful the entire estate is.. you are living in paradise and also photography paradise. I would snap myself silly for dawn to dusk and not have time to help out like you do. LOVE the guest house and the pool enclosures is my favorite. its beautiful as is there home
ReplyDeleteIt is beautiful and one day I will post a short (short short) video of what the plains are like outside the oasis. Irrigation has changed the land immensely since my childhood. We didn't grow up here but on similar land further south. Gravel roads, dust, burned off browned grass in summer, skinny livestock... droving sheep on the roadside to try and find extra feed for them (farmers called roadside the long acre). It's green all year round now - especially on the dairy farms.)
DeleteI'm envious of the polyhouses and workshop...and the garden! Such a beautiful place. It would be interesting seeing the place in the past when it was busy and thriving
ReplyDelete😎 I didn't include the engineering workshop. It's enormous (and still working). You will get hints of parts of it when I blog the van I'm working on. (Well being the apprentice....)
DeleteYou have a really nice garden by the look of it, I'd be happy.
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