Land-art revisited

Following Mary's comment on "White poles" I decided that I should go and take some current pictures of our activities shown in a much earlier post.  This will also document matters for visitors to the physical property who see some of this stuff and wonder what the heck is going on!

In essence we started off on our morning walks carrying lumps of quartz from around the house area up the hill to decorate ant mounds.  In the second half of the walk we'd find any old rock and use it to built an artistically meandering line beside the drive.  We largely stopped dong this after we acquired the small dog: trying to place rocks in a careful manner with 3.1Kg of patience-challenged pooch became a matter for bad language!

So here is the current situation.
This is the first mound.  Rather than continue the spiral effect we decided to try to completely cover it.  As can be seen the ants have been busy and have built their tunnel spoil up over the rock.
This mound was to be covered on one side only.  It is located in a much grassier part of the property and there has been very little attempt to cover the rocks.  I wonder if the ants have gone to a woodier environment?
The intention with this mound was to set up an "apron" around the base.  It soon became apparent that such neatness was not part of the local wildlife's plan for the area.  I am not sure quite who was responsible for this, but seeing that the mound hasn't been excavated I think we can absolve echidnas.  Kangaroos graze in the area but I cannot see why they would congregate in such a bare area.  This tends to leave reptiles, and I have spotted Bearded Dragons using ant mounds as look out points.

Of the original sites this leaves the line up the drive.  Other than getting to be about 40m long nothing much has happened with this.
We have added one more item, in the same paddock as the poles.  This is yet more quartz - in some cases soccer (note, not football) ball sized lumps.  The idea is that Frances could lie in bed in the morning and see the snake coming down the hill.  Following all the rain this year it has got a bit overgrown.  If I find the time and energy I will free it later!

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