River Gift

Note that my desert-trip post for September 28 is now published – The Red Centre – West MacDonnell National Park: Ormiston Gorge, Ormiston Pound, Serpentine Gorge. This post may have more photogra...

Windfall Mangoes

Wind whipped through the parkway as I cycled this morning. It rustled tree leaves, carried wet smells from the river, muted the chorus of avian voices that trilled, sputtered, and squawked. Australian...

Reef Notes

With Vilis’s and my tour to the outer Great Barrier Reef pending, I cycled to the library, signed out a couple of books on the Reef, and did some brushing up. Previously, I’d known that th...

Aussie Swallows

Given the chance to be a bird, I would choose the incredible speed, agility, and grace of a swallow, preferably one of the species with a glistening blue-black back and long, forked tail. Australia...