Birdwings and Bettongs

When visiting the Melbourne Museum last month, I was mesmerized by the gorgeous butterfly displays. I stared longingly at brilliant green and black male birdwings and thought If only… This morning, ...

Beneath Hill 60

At dawn, I pedaled hard for five kilometres to the Nathan Street bridge, and then home again, thinking of the beacon shining at the end of what would be long and intense day of writing. That beacon wa...

Marsupials, Monotremes, and Placental Mammals

The early sun was still gentle when I strolled into Bicentennial Park in pursuit of birds, recording all that I saw and heard. Many familiar acquaintances – flashy magpies and magpie-larks, hissing ...

Artsy Australian Bark

There are Canadian trees that tear at my soul – white pines in Canadian Shield country, their flaring, wind-swept boughs dancing power against stormy skies; paper birches, the beauties of the boreal...