Went to the Little River A & P show on Saturday. For those of you overseas (or offshore, as people say who think they are cool), A & P stands for Agricultural and Pastoral. It's where farmers and country dwellers can get together to compete at horse-riding, wood chopping, sheep shearing and rounding up sheep with dogs and whistles, plus cake-baking and preserve making contests, and all sorts of good wholesome fun. It was a lovely day, nice and hot, and the animals looked great. Horses, dogs, sheep, piglets, even a rat or two. It was the Little River A & P Association's 100th anniversary year, so some brave people were dressed up in period costume.
The theme of the day, I guess, was the human/animal interface.What struck me most about the day was how much we depend on animals for our welfare, and how much they depend on us for their happiness.
The rudbeckias are from Okuti Garden, I think they are "Prairie Sun"
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