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Category Archives: Death
Dogs on the Backs of Utes 18 – Vale Mary
Terrible things happen on farms. I took these photos of my neighbour’s dog Mary, with her pup, on the back of his ute six weeks ago. Two weeks ago, Mary was killed by one of our cows. It was horrible. … Continue reading
Posted in Australian Bush Life, Death, Dogs, Utes
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Small miracles: Christmas beetles saved from the allure of artifical light
The first week of January a friend and I took a road trip to Melbourne. Along the way, on the ground, outside the automatic doors of a fast food place next to a petrol station on the highway, we found … Continue reading
Further tips for rearing poddy calves
The day the fresh came down Lagoon Creek, we found a calf sleeping next to his dead mother. It was impossible to tell why she died. There were no marks on the damp ground, no signs of a struggle. Though … Continue reading
Posted in Australian Bush Life, Cattle, Death
Tagged Angus, Black Angus, Calf, Cattle, Johnny, poddy calves
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Dogs on the backs of Utes 9
I think you can tell that this beautiful dog is actually profoundly sad. I know some people think it is unwarranted anthropomorphism to believe that animals like dogs feel emotions, but they obviously haven’t lived with and loved a dog. … Continue reading
Posted in Australian Bush Life, Death, Dogs, Utes
Tagged Australian Coolie, Australian Koolie, dogs, German Coolie, German Koolie
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Culvert this side of Scone
A memento mori on the way to town. As if I needed one…
I know this to be true. Everything alive is fragile. Extremely fragile. This beautiful young female kangaroo dropped dead, from fright, last Monday morning. She was with her mother when Ellie started chasing their mob. In the confusion of the … Continue reading
It never looks right when something is wrong
On Saturday afternoon I looked up the hill behind the house and saw this. When someone is dead you know immediately. Death is unlike anything else. Sometimes animals lie very still, and even as you ask yourself the question “is … Continue reading
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The day I always dread
You can see how quiet they are, this mob of weaner heifers and steers. So quiet. These beautiful, quiet little animals. It’s more than likely they are all dead now. On 30 June, the day before we left the farm … Continue reading
Posted in Cattle, Death
Tagged Angus, cattle sale, cattle truck, heifer, Scone, steer, vegetarian
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Gundy Cemetery – disquieting use of Armco and other metal
In both, the graves seem to extend above the ground. Dirt within a barrier of Armco. Air within an open metal casket, stood resolutely on bare dirt. A disconcerting DIY aesthetic…Someone has made these in great sadness in their shed.
Strange heterotopia on the edge of the Gundy that never was
Heterotopia is a concept of real spaces of otherness conceived by the philosopher Michel Foucault. The Gundy Cemetery is a fair way out of town. An almost two kilometre drive out on Merrimuka Road, in the middle of nowhere, surrounded … Continue reading
Posted in Death, Dogs
Tagged cemetery, Foucault, Gundy, heterotopia, St Matthew's Gundy.
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Country Life and Death 