We live close to a beautiful bush track that I walk at least once a week. It too is crumbly dry, and you can almost feel the bushland aching for rain. The birds love our two birdbaths, often three or four different types of birds (Bronzewing Pigeons, Twenty-eights, Magpies, Wattlebirds) are waiting impatiently for a quick immersion in the water to get rid of the dust in their feathers.
I'm not a summer person and am desperate for this heat to end.
My Nanna has a saying that has thus far (in my life) proved true, that after Anzac Day we'll be wearing our coats. It's always cold by the end of April, but being so warm so late, it makes you wonder if the cold rainy weather will ever return.
"aching for rain" - that is exactly how I felt it too. As I write this reply, there has been a big rainstorm over the north of Perth. Here, the sky is full of clouds, but the rain won't touch the earth. We, too, are not summer people and just want the heat to end. But cold by the end of April ... I'm not convinced.
PS. We have one birdbath and it is being very well used.
I have traveled all over the world for my work but Australia is one locale I have not experienced. I appreciate your depictions of the natural world you experience there. Perhaps I will make it down under one of these days.
We live close to a beautiful bush track that I walk at least once a week. It too is crumbly dry, and you can almost feel the bushland aching for rain. The birds love our two birdbaths, often three or four different types of birds (Bronzewing Pigeons, Twenty-eights, Magpies, Wattlebirds) are waiting impatiently for a quick immersion in the water to get rid of the dust in their feathers.
I'm not a summer person and am desperate for this heat to end.
My Nanna has a saying that has thus far (in my life) proved true, that after Anzac Day we'll be wearing our coats. It's always cold by the end of April, but being so warm so late, it makes you wonder if the cold rainy weather will ever return.
Loved your piece, Monique, beautiful as always.
"aching for rain" - that is exactly how I felt it too. As I write this reply, there has been a big rainstorm over the north of Perth. Here, the sky is full of clouds, but the rain won't touch the earth. We, too, are not summer people and just want the heat to end. But cold by the end of April ... I'm not convinced.
PS. We have one birdbath and it is being very well used.
I have traveled all over the world for my work but Australia is one locale I have not experienced. I appreciate your depictions of the natural world you experience there. Perhaps I will make it down under one of these days.
I hope you do, Matthew. It is a beautiful country - I have seen a good deal of it. So many varied landscapes ... as I imagine the US also has.
Thank you for your kind words, as always.