The Human Scene Down Under

Bird song from the Rosslea streets was like musack filtering into our rental house, my mind subconsciously identifying the instruments in the avian orchestra. Even less focussed than yesterday due to ...

Salties

Steady rain fell through the night, keeping me company through fitful sleep fraught with rambling thoughts, bouts of dozing, and residual pain following surgical removal of an ovarian cyst late yester...

Platypus

Light cloud blanketed the sky over Townsville as I walked within Bicentennial Park early this morning, listing all the birds I saw and heard. As I did so, it occurred to me that Australia’s bird...

On Blogging and Poincianas

Writing this blog is forever a game of catch-up. Vilis’s and my recent adventures in the desert, Daintree, and on the great Barrier Reef punched big holes in my writing time, but provided exciti...