New arrivals

March 9, 2015July 27, 2015 / susiecameron / 2 Comments

Things are settling into a nice rhythm here in the lane and really starting to feel like home. We almost feel sad when we have to lock up and go back to Sydney for a day or two and visibly relax when we get back to the green of the Shoalhaven. That being said I really enjoy the big smoke when I’m there and manage to pack loads of things in, mainly because I know exactly where to go for all the various things I need as opposed to down here where I have less choice of suppliers. We are about to start creating our ensuite and dressing room and I have been given the task of buying all the fittings, tiles etc so that the builders have no hold up on the build and things are coming together nicely. Our builder is the cousin of our mates in Milton and he has a great love of houses of our era so I feel we are in good hands. Watch this space…..

We have a few new additions to the family. I’m going to leave my favourite to last and start with our brand new shiny ride on mower. Cammo has been using our existing ride on mower that our friend Dean gave us a couple of years ago for our tenants to use when we had the property rented out and it was taking him about 3-4 hours to mow which was starting to become a bit of a chore. We also have loads of trees and we were informed by our neighbours that you need a mower with a “zero turn” to be able to mow around them. After a few weeks of enviously watching our neighbours in the lane zooming up and down and around their properties in no time he bit the bullet and bought a beautiful new model (which comes with a drinks holder and a large comfy seat).

We bought it from a lovely local dealer Noel, who has been very patient teaching Cam all the ins and outs of mowing. He makes a valid point that often when people move down here from the city they are initially very excited about a ride on mower but it can quickly become a chore without the correct equipment and it takes the shine off their new country life. Our lawn is now looking much better even after one mow and Cam is enjoying it much more….win win!!

Our little lane is very busy at the moment. We live on a no through dirt road surrounded by a 300 acre dairy farm and as we drive out of the lane we pass a few paddocks that are obviously the “mother and baby clinic”. The obviously very pregnant cows are separated from the herd and hang out in this lush paddock with extra feed until they give birth and we have seen a good half dozen calves being born in the past couple of weeks. I have to pinch myself when I drive past and see a little calf just struggling to its feet straight after being born and taking its first steps – just magic!

Our Lane A new little face joins us

Our veggie patch is going from strength to strength and we are really enjoying all our fresh produce. Our snow peas are so sweet they are often eaten straight from the plant and don’t always make it to the kitchen. We have loads of tomatoes of all shapes and sizes, I just hope there is enough sun left before Autumn arrives to ripen them. We have some sort of crazy ladybird that is eating our eggplant. I thought all ladybirds were good but apparently not and I have been told this 28 point ladybird is to be squished with glee every time I see one. Tomato dust deters them and is apparently allowed even in organic gardens so I have given it a go. Our cucumbers grew almost overnight and as we are inundated with them I think I shall have to make some bread and butter cucumbers or similar to make the most of the crop.

We love our fresh veggies!

Last week I left Cam alone for just one night on a quick trip to Sydney and returned to find we had a couple of new residents in the chook house. He had always wanted a few more but I had read that any new chickens introduced into the pen are often attacked by the first lot – they are literally hen pecked – and it can sometimes be quite savage. He bought a couple of leghorns and so far they have survived despite being chased and pecked by the others. One of them has taken to roosting on a higher level from the others to get some peace and quiet. Miraculously on the very first morning there was an egg on the floor. It was very small but it was an egg!! She may have laid it out of pure fear?? The original batch still have not produced any eggs but they are becoming more chicken like and spend most of the day outside pecking around so hopefully it wont be too long now before we get some. I have very optimistically been collecting egg boxes in which to store our bounty…..

Our poor new hen pecked chooks!

The new white egg compared to a normal size egg!!

And last but definitely not least I would like to introduce our latest family member – Bailey. She is the cutest little bundle of love you could ever wish to meet! We made the 1.5 hour car trip to meet her last weekend prior to picking her up in a couple of weeks. The breeder had a litter of 7 to choose from and I had no idea how I was going to choose but as we approached the little group of puppies one broke away and waddled over to me and promptly sat on my feet and the deed was done!! She is 6 weeks old here and appears to have a curious but loving nature. Some of the others were knocking over the water bowls and getting into everyone’s bags but this little one was more interested in meeting everyone and snuggling up for a cuddle! All my fears about getting a dog disappeared and we are really looking forward to having her in our life. Lots of our friends think we’re mad. The kids are finally gone and independent and here we are tying ourselves down with a dog! We figure that if we train her well she will be easy to loan out to various friends when we go on holiday and my kids are champing at the bit to meet her so I’m pretty sure they will volunteer to babysit too!

How cute is this face?

We now have a couple of weeks to get the garden dog friendly. We have a little nook at the side of the house where there is a little room attached to our veranda and she can be warm/cool and dry there in all weather. The first week or so she will probably be in our laundry until she gets used to the geography of the land. I have different concerns here to a city house. Our house is raised up on sandstone pillars and I’m worried she will go under the house and stay there or meet a snake under there (despite the fact we haven’t seen one it doesn’t mean there aren’t any). Hopefully she will stay pretty close to us at the beginning and we can teach her as we go along. We also have cattle grids at the front and electric fences at the back so lets hope she’s not TOO adventurous to start with!

When meeting Bailey, we were so close to our friends Nifty and Sue we carried on to spend the night with them at their 100 acre property near Moruya. We love nothing more than catching up with them and enjoying happy hour in the back paddock with a fire watching the horses graze. As there are no city lights out here some nights you just feel totally engulfed by the amazing stars. You look up at the sprinkling of the Milky Way in between literally thousands of stars and it makes you feel like a little ant as you contemplate the enormity of the solar system and our part in it. Other nights the moon plays hide and seek through the swirling clouds……

We love “happy hour” at The Five Mile

The amazing moon A paddock full of kangaroos

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The Potager

March 1, 2015July 16, 2015 / susiecameron / 2 Comments

This is a fancy word for a veggie patch.

One that I find very evocative as I have had a vision of the Potager I would like in my mind for several years.

According to Wikipedia……The traditional kitchen garden, also known as a potager (in French, jardin potager) is a space separate from the rest of the residential garden – the ornamental plants and lawn areas. The kitchen garden may serve as the central feature of an ornamental, all-season landscape, or it may be little more than a humble vegetable plot. It is a source of herbs, vegetables and fruits, but it is often also a structured garden space with a design based on repetitive geometric patterns.

This week we came a little closer to my vision with the arrival of 3.5 tons of river gravel.

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Growing up in the UK I had often seen gravel used amongst the raised beds instead of grass as it drains freely and stops the whole area becoming a muddy mess in wet weather. In Australia it also stops us having to mow it every few days in summer which is a bonus, as the beloved ride on mower doesn’t fit in there and it all has to be done by hand!

We spent one whole day laying newspapers down on top of the grass and then barrowing in endless kilos of the gravel but hopefully it will only need to be done once and we are very pleased with the results. What do you think?

As you can see, everything is growing beautifully and we are now harvesting lettuce, snow peas, french beans and pak choi with the tomatoes, leeks, carrots and beetroot not too far behind and all in 6 weeks!

The chooks are happy and getting braver by the day, not too long now before we can let them free range around the property. We should also start getting some eggs in the next couple of weeks with any luck. Cammo is “encouraging” them by leaving golf balls in the nesting boxes. They are finally getting excited when we deliver fresh kitchen scraps to them and there is sheer pandemonium when they spot a little bug or lizard in their yard and literally run after them as one clucking and hysterical group. Whatever the lead hen (Henrietta) does the others blithely follow so let’s hope she has half a brain and proves to be a good leader of the gang!

Despite the neglect of the rose bushes over the past few years they are still producing some lovely blooms with that proper old fashioned rose perfume. I think they are all David Austin roses and they should be even more fabulous next summer after a good pruning. Cam is always muttering under his breath about getting rid of the ‘damn roses’ but I refuse to listen to him. Every country garden needs some flowers and these are old and established.

Susie 1: Cammo 0

Out and About

February 23, 2015July 27, 2015 / susiecameron / 2 Comments

Well, now that things are starting to calm down slightly there is some free time to explore and start to check out our local community. Due to the unrelenting gardening – digging, weeding etc, my back is starting to complain and I knew it was time to get back to Pilates. My lovely friend and style queen Gretel alerted me to a new Pilates studio opening in the near vicinity and with the lure of “free initial consultations in February” I was soon pulling up into the drive of the Berry Pilates Studio. Leanne has made a beautiful studio from the existing framework of an old tin shed and it has a beautiful view over their property and together with brand new equipment and her attention to detail, I am now the newest member of the studio with an individualised program! Leanne is also from Sydney, having moved here about 9 months ago, so it is nice for us both to meet new people. She is putting me in a class with some nice locals starting next week so watch this space………..

pilates berry view from pilates

As this week is my birthday week we have some tentative plans to have a nice lunch or dinner out. We are quite spoilt for choice considering we are in the country and we have a few contenders for the birthday treat. Lunch overlooking the vines at Silos Estate Winery could be a winner if it’s a nice sunny day…..

Alternatively we could have lunch at Gerroa beach at The Blue Swimmer cafe, with glorious views right up 7 mile beach followed by a swim…..

If it turns out to be a bit of a miserable day we could have dinner instead at South on Albany, a new restaurant in town that is getting great reviews for its fresh, tasty and innovative food.

The Hungry Duck, a modern Asian restaurant with a chef who used to work with the renowned Tetsuya. Degustation dinners to die for apparently…..

So, despite our new country bumpkin status, we still have lots of wonderful places to visit and try out and as we LOVE our food and wine we are so happy to be on a food trail of sorts down here on the South Coast. There is a big ‘paddock to the plate’ philosophy down here as well as community fruit and veg boxes and buying straight from the farm and we very much intend to get involved with these in the coming months and years. I’m still tickled pink that I can walk out to the garden and harvest our own fresh food for dinner! We are already starting to plan our meals around what is available and the amount of garbage we put out each week is drastically less already. We are trying to not waste anything if possible and with the chickens and a great compost area this is much easier than we had imagined.

A Love Hate Relationship

February 23, 2015July 16, 2015 / susiecameron / Leave a comment

This evening at 6 pm I decided to make use of the hammock that my son Tom put up the first weekend we moved in. It is at the back of the property overlooking the paddocks and feels very hedonistic when you’re there, swinging gently, with not a care in the world. I love it. There is a lovely breeze and I can hear the wrens and finches in the nearby bushes and the kurrawongs and lorikeets in the trees. All is well with my world, well almost………..I can also hear the sound of the trucks on the Princes Highway.

You can barely see the highway but when the wind is in a certain direction and in the stillness of the early morning or late afternoon I can hear them hurtling up or down the highway in a desperate bid to get their goods to Sydney or Nowra “in time” for…… whatever. It is the ONLY thing that is a demerit point so far with the property. I speak to myself logically….”people need groceries and petrol Suz” or “it’s good to be close to an arterial road – easy to get everywhere and easy for people to call in” but it BUGS ME!!!!

It is however a do-able compromise in the scheme of things. I love the house. I love the surroundings and I love the lifestyle. It all came at a reasonable price. Soooo……………there has to be a compromise somewhere and I guess this is it. Not the end of the world, just a niggle in the background occasionally, such as when I’m daydreaming in the hammock…
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Week 4

February 18, 2015July 16, 2015 / susiecameron / 6 Comments

or Reality Week as I like to call it.

I guess the bubble had to burst in one way or another and it’s not that I didn’t expect ‘The Country’ to assert itself sooner or later but I wasn’t prepared. I sauntered out into our garden last Wednesday morning to let our chooks out, calling out to them, thinking how happy they would be to get out into the yard and then promptly discovered one of them dead on the floor of the pen. Such a shock, we had only had them 6 days and I felt responsible for it. She died on my watch. Of course Wayne was away and here I was – the ex-vegetarian who hadn’t so much as touched any of the chickens yet – alone and unsure and UPSET!

In true girly style I lost the plot and went straight to my next door neighbours. Pat and Jeanette are the local landowners/ex dairy farmers and the nicest most down to earth people you could wish to meet. They were so lovely and understanding and (outwardly anyway) unfazed by my need for them to come and look and see what, if anything, was obvious about the death. Pat assured me that these things happen quite often and for no particular reason and then he took her away to ‘dispose’ of her. Quite a wake up call for this little city girl. Strangely enough I had only named 5 of them….spooky!

So, in some ways, I was slightly more prepared when we found a dead hare on our driveway one morning. The biggest issue this time was that we had been sitting on the front veranda the night before watching it dash around having the time of it’s life. We were playing some music and it seemed to love it – inching closer and closer and just sitting in the middle of the lawn as if it was listening. We found it all rather endearing – until the next morning.

I can see why people say not to name any of your animals…..

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Sunset over the chook shed….

In other developments the house is becoming a little more lived in as Shane – the wunder-kid hanger of paintings and mirrors – spent a whole day with us bringing the place to life with the combined treasures of our lives. Paintings that we have had in storage for nearly 10 years are finally back on our walls. They tell a story of our past 30 years and it’s as if some old friends have come to stay! We are gradually breathing life back into this old house and adding to it’s history.

Starting to feel like home

Last week when I was pottering around the shops in Berry I met a lady that knew our house and she told me that in the old days, when the house wasn’t lived in for a while, they used our living room and main bedroom to store hay for the dairy farm! We also heard that the main living room was used to hold the local dances back in the day and I can imagine the women with their long dresses swirling around, enjoying some rare downtime with their beaus, where we now watch TV!!

It’s testimony to the way they built the house back in 1896 that it has stood the test of time (and the odd use as a farm shed) to stand unscathed today! If only the floorboards could talk………

The garden is where the majority of our work is centered at the moment and some days we feel like it’s a full time job. It has fallen to Wayne to do most of the hard physical work although I have spent hours mulching, weeding and planting. It is the sort of work that needs to be done once and then hopefully it will all become a little easier to maintain. We bought a huge 300 kg bale of hay from a local farmer to mulch the side of our house and some lucerne to build up the beds in the veggie patch. Some turf from a nearby turf farm has given us a quick fix on the driveway where we pulled out an old scraggly flower bed and should give us the nice curve we require!

Our bale of hay looking quite at home.

The roses have been neglected but once winter comes we will heavily prune them in time for next spring. In the meantime despite their rather bedraggled appearance they are producing beautiful flowers. They are mostly David Austin roses and worth looking after. I cut some for my first little vase of flowers and got great pleasure from them – smiling in a rather stupid fashion every time I passed them. Easily pleased I am…

My first flowers from the garden.

And so it begins…..

February 12, 2015July 16, 2015 / susiecameron / 2 Comments

WEEK ONE

Well it’s been a week since we moved to the Meadow and it already feels like home.

The house has a friendliness and serenity which is very calming. Despite the fact that there are always “jobs to be done” it’s nice to feel relaxed at the end of the day when we are sitting on the front veranda under the stars with a sense of pride in what we have achieved that day. That view feeds our soul and we love watching the weather coming over the escarpment. The mist in the mornings and the clouds in the afternoon as the sea breeze picks up and cools us down. The birds are everywhere and we have everything from the magnificent black cockatoos to the beautiful tiny blue fairy wrens. We have a resident bunny who scurries across the lawn every morning and evening as well as the 300 strong dairy herd that walk past our house twice a day for milking. I don’t know who is more surprised when we turn the corner to find a huge blue tongue lizard basking in the afternoon sun. One of our biggest fears before moving here was the flies. Proximity to dairy farms means you can’t avoid them but it hasn’t been as bad as we feared and the house has fly screens on all the windows and doors which means we can fling them all open and make the most of the lovely cross breezes, keeping the house lovely and cool.

Our beautiful fairy wrens. They are busy with their new babies at the moment….

As this house has absolutely no built in storage of any sort we have had a challenge trying to house our many books, magazines and photos albums. As a result our huge double garage is home to loads of boxes and crates of our belongings. We had to buy a small wardrobe to see us through until we start our first big project – the ensuite and dressing room. Cam has commandeered an outside cupboard/shed for his clothes and shoes and we are coping pretty well. This is mostly due to the fact that we are living in work/gardening clothes and have so far only got dressed up once to go into town for breakfast thereby not needing our “good” clothes yet!

We have actually done quite a lot in one week. The rooms are all sorted out and just await the hanging of our pictures and some new furniture! The rooms are huge with 12 foot ceilings and our beds look rather lost. Whatever we buy furniture wise will have to be of generous proportions to look right. We have had ceiling fans installed, our TV has had to have 2 different types of connection installed as apparently in the countryside you don’t automatically get the free to air TV channels via our cable TV (or in our case the satellite). A few hundred dollars and yet another 3-4 wall plugs later we can now access all stations but cannot series link our favourite shows – annoying but not exactly catastrophic!

Cam has come to grips with his ride on mower although apparently it is way too small with a hopeless turning circle and will need to be replaced(surprise surprise!) He also bought a whipper snipper and has managed to coerce the garden into a sense of neatness. The chook shed had grass up to our thighs as a snake was seen in there a couple of weeks ago and no-one was game to go in and risk it, but it is now ready for some little chickens to munch on! We have washed down all the windows and cobwebs and swept out the roosting pen and the potting shed. We have decided to put in our little spare bar fridge so we can have nice cold drinks on tap when we are working – very decadent!!

We have weeded, dug over and planted our veggie garden. We are trying our hand at a bit of everything and we will see how we go. We have tomatoes, spinach, lettuce, spring onions, leeks, eggplant, cucumbers, beetroot and carrots as well as snow peas and French beans, kale and rhubarb.

The beginnings of our veggie patch and some resident kale and rhubarb!

The local “girls” making their way back to the milking shed in the afternoon.

Last night I made a crumble with some of our own apples with very pleasing results – once the rhubarb ripens we will be trying all sorts of cakes, pies and crumbles! We have a persimmon tree groaning under the weight of the fruit but I have no real idea what to do with it? Our macadamia tree is being enjoyed by the white cockatoos that come by every morning for breakfast. We have some baby pears and loads of lemons and limes. In the summer we have a huge mulberry tree that spreads out over the cubby house giving some beautiful shade. If we can beat the birds to it we should get plenty of fruit to eat fresh and freeze for later. It is a very short season so they are quite prized. The birds can have the top of the tree and I can have the lower branches – what can go wrong???

My very own apples waiting to be transformed into a delicious crumble!

Our dear friend Smutzer came down yesterday and he has been a godsend. He is very handy and has loads of tools and common sense, both things which we lack, and he has been helping Cam reinforce the fencing in the chook shed. It had come loose in a few places and wasn’t fox proof so they have metres of chain fencing and a few hours hard work in the 30 degree temp ahead of them. It will all be worth it at 5.30pm when it’s tools down, a shower and a well earned beer at The Berry Pub. We had to go and buy a new pump for the water system this morning as the old one had burnt out and we were so excited when the sprinklers all burst into life – we were like kids jumping up and down in the water and I can now wash all the fruit and veg as I harvest it, as well as having plenty of water on tap for the chooks. I initially had severe doubts that the one vertical sprinkler would be of any use in the veggie patch but with the new powerful pump the water pressure is fab and the solitary sprinkler covers the entire area really well ( as well as providing relief for the odd hot and sweaty gardener who has been seen running and jumping through it like a five year old…..)

The boys attacking the Chook shed. The old fence is down and they’re digging the holes for the new fence. It didn’t help that the temperature was up around 30 degrees!!

Unfortunately in order to install a super duper fox proof new fence they had to chop down a very vigorous passionfruit vine that had completely covered the old one. We were devastated until we actually ate one of them to find it completely bland and not our usual zingy fresh tasting fruit that we love! The flowers however are truly magnificent.

I have been dabbling with the idea of trying my hand at painting. Being surrounded by so much beauty I am itching to try and convert it to something interesting on canvas! To date my creativity has only been seen in cooking, gardening and house design plus the odd picture of poppies, which I adore. I intend buying an easel and just setting it up at various spots around the property and having a go – I doubt if I will be able to turn out much that is worth framing but the South Coast has inspired many an Australian artist and you never know if you never try! The Cambewarra escarpment and its ever changing sky and cloud formations is an obvious choice and the passionfruit flowers and other massed plantings of salvias and roses also provide some inspiration. Once we have some spare time (!!!) I shall drag my supplies out of the boxes in the garage and who knows – I may be able to share something with you all soon…..

WEEK TWO

Things are starting to take shape. The house is very comfortable and easy to live in and we now have the hang of all the new appliances and the “new” TV system and despite the weather – which plunged into wintry conditions earlier this week together with a day of steady rain – we have managed to get the garden a little more under control and some of the front beds planted. We unearthed a long ago installed garden edge and have reinstated it to its former glory. Its unusual curves are growing on me and I have now planted a new hedge following the lines originally created for the front garden. As the house was built in 1896 it is hard to know when this would have been created but we are pleased to be able to bring someone’s ideas from the past into the future!

Our newly revealed curved border

Our lovely friends Phil and Karen who live about 60kms from us in Milton gave us a generous and wonderfully useful house warming present of 10 hours use of their gardener Peter and he is coming to visit me next week to discuss our garden. I am very excited as he will be able to identify the plants and trees that we have as well as recommend a plan for it all going forward. My next area to attack is the west side of the house which has a hedge of white bushy roses or “rugosa roses” which are looking a bit lost surrounded by overgrown roses and geraniums. I think if we get rid of all the messy stuff, transplant a couple of the nicer roses and generally tidy it all up the hedge will look better and might be worth keeping to create a pathway around the house.

Our messy westerly side of the house – waiting for Peter’s magical transformation!

We discovered that we couldn’t use our present server for the internet in the new house and have been patiently waiting for Telstra to come and join us up to the world. It has probably been the most annoying thing thus far that we do not have it as Wayne is trying to work from down here. The day that was all booked in and ready to go came and went and when confronted they said “you were meant to get a call telling you about that error…” which wasn’t particularly helpful. We have embraced this lack of available technology and in some ways it has been a blessing as we all know how easy it is to waste a few hours on the net. We haven’t watched the news for a couple of weeks and most days I don’t even put my watch on!!! The whole world could have imploded and I wouldn’t know about it. I guess that is one of the reasons I am starting to feel so much more relaxed. That, and the greenery that surrounds us in every direction. I don’t think I am ever going to tire of it……

We have a horse currently living in the adjoining paddock to our house. We have called him Ned and I feel a bit sorry for him as there are no trees in his field and on the 30 plus days he just huddles as close as he can to the wire fence nearest our trees in the hope of a bit of shade. Despite eating the carrots I offered him he isn’t overly friendly and will not allow us to pat him just yet. It is nice to have something other than cows near us and hopefully he will eventually trust us enough to come up for a pat on the nose!

Ned looking hopeful for a carrot or two…..

The local Berry Show was on last weekend and it is pretty much the biggest thing that happens to Berry all year. It is a typical country show with agricultural happenings such as horse jumping, cattle judging and tractor displays as well as entertainment for everyone. I was pleasantly surprised to see a bunch of little kids sitting cross legged in front of a Punch and Judy Show – they were entranced!!

Sitting in the Axman’s bar with my dear friends Leigh and John from nearby Kangaroo Valley I watched the local lads get stuck into the wood chopping and they even held a final for the Australian Championships so it was a pretty good standard and great entertainment, especially with a cold cider in my hand!

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WEEK THREE

This week was Visitors Week….!! Our long standing friends, Sue and Nifty who live a couple of hours further south in Moruya came to stay for a couple of nights which was fun as we usually lob at their house and it was finally our turn to host. They have 100 acres and Nifty is the best campfire cook ever and we are forever asking him things about the countryside so it was great that he could be with us for our “special” moment – buying the chickens!

Our beautiful existing chook shed was swept and washed and laid with fresh sawdust and straw and together with its fancy new fence merely awaited the arrival of some hens! We decided on 6, a cross of Isa Browns and Leghorns, that were 17 weeks old and should only be 3-4 weeks away from starting to lay. They’re very placid and seemingly happy in their new home although they have so far steadfastly refused to get excited about the scraps that I give them. They walk around them and over them with not so much as a sideways glance so I’m hoping that is only because they have never been fed them before and it’s all new to them. They have a fancy feeder that they tread on to operate, which is meant to discourage vermin from wanting to share their dinner and also a lovely hanging water container so in theory we could go away for a couple of days without them expiring.

As Sue and Nifty left, our eldest son Sam and his girlfriend Tina arrived for the weekend. They were a bit frazzled after a week of the big smoke and a rather horrendous journey to us which took an extra hour for no particular reason other than it was Friday night and people were escaping from the city. After a nice dinner and a couple of drinks on the front veranda I could feel them starting to relax and during the rest of the weekend we explored the beach and a lovely local bar/restaurant on the Shoalhaven River where we enjoyed some cold wine and a selection of food from their bar menu (one of everything in fact!!). It was lovely to spend more than just an hour or two with him as we would have done in Sydney sharing a meal, and our hopes are that all the kids can pop down for a day or two and escape from the city when they feel the need and tap into the serenity!

My Move To The Meadow

A tale of our move to the countryside

Author: susiecameron