The View From Here
My courtyard is tiny, but I think I’ve told you that before. Despite the limiting view of the walled space, the pocket handkerchief piece of sky above, it still seems […]
Category Archives: Perspective
What Remains
We descended a long, rutted track, overgrown with ti-tree, into a valley at the base of a towering escarpment. Nestled amongst the underbrush on the banks of a burbling creek, […]
A Frame of Mind?
Have you ever captured just a glimpse of something? A brief moment when something ordinary is lit in such a way as to offer an extra-ordinary perspective? I suspect this […]
Forever Temporary
I need reminding. Nothing is forever. This is never more evident than in my garden – a deep repository for life’s important lessons. It takes a gardener like me time […]
Deep Impact
The last in my series of three travel adventures took us on a road trip from my home in northern New South Wales, up the Queensland coast to the […]
Altered States
If you think the title of this post sounds like a good sci-fi movie, then read no further. Rather, I want to explore how visiting another state (Queensland in this […]
Verdant Green
As green as it’s ever been. I awoke to gentle rain this morning. Such a lovely sound for a gardener. Not the blustery wind driven destruction of earlier in the […]
An Ill Wind …
… blows nobody any good. Or does it? Like many people, the wind is my least favourite weather ‘character’. And we seem to have had our share of windy days […]
Sense and Sensitivity
Imagine my surprise when weeding around some pots, I touched what I thought was a weed (what is a weed anyway but a plant growing in the wrong place?) And […]
Shallow Ponds and Deep Wells
It’s tadpole time again! After the recent deluge we had in the wake of Tropical Cyclone Debbie, the drainage pools opposite my daughter’s house filled up. The grand-children watched hopefully, […]
