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…

Garden Visitors 2

“Fig jam this year,” I thought last week, as I surveyed the figs developing on my fig tree. I have to admit that I’ve been quite proud of this three-year-old fig as I grew it from a cutting given to me by a friend, but  I haven’t been able to identify it. This year it…