Christmas Colours: December 21

Is it bending the rules of Six on Saturday to include six photos of the same thing, I wonder? Will I incur the wrath of our leader The Propagator? Time will tell, I suppose. Recently, I wrote about the King Parrot in my post ‘A Single Man?’ as I wondered whether he had a mate, and I’m…

Rain and Dust: SoS December 15

One:  The sky is the colour of the inside of an oyster shell, much paler than it appears in my photo, for reasons that I don’t understand.  It isn’t fog, or mist, it’s dust.  Dust which has been present for two days.  It couldn’t be called a dust storm, more a dust drift.  Australia’s topsoil is…

Hello Summer, December 1

It’s the first day of Summer here. In Australia, we don’t really wait for the solstice to say that Summer has arrived, and that’s hardly surprising considering the temperature is forecast to reach 31 degrees today. We are still having cool nights and mornings though, and during the last ten days we had rain, wind…