Zooming

Spider webs

Zooming in you see the spider webs on the top left of the centre distance tea-tree.  They caught my eye with sun shining on their dewi-ness like Xmas tree sparkles.

No frost here yet but mornings are getting a bit chilly. I harvested my last zucchini a day or two ago and pulled the plants even though they were still making fresh new growth (but no flowers).  Besides I needed their bit of garden to be reshaped as part of a drainage plan.  I'm trying to redirect the run-off rainwater that comes sheeting down from the properties above us in heavy rain storms.  We get three or four a year such events that threaten inundation. Inundation might be an exaggeration - the water continues downhill - I just hate slopping around in ankle deep water where it pools in my paths and parking places en route.

Topsoil was dug out of the nacsent driveway so that some hardfill could be laid to reduce risk of trucks getting stuck. I'm slowly moving about 6 cubic metres of soil a wheelbarrow load at a time, picking out rocks and roots as I go, and using it to reshape the veg garden; making low patches into high patches with the hope/plan that water will be directed to run into the stream bed at the northerly end of the garden (watering the olive and lemon grove on its way).