From the Park Bench

The sunset is very pink tonight. It’s making everything look pink. All of my pot plants, the bucket of apples we’ve picked to make apple pie filling to put in the freezer over winter are all tinged pink with the sunset light. Tonight’s different too because it’s cold enough for some people to have lit […]

The birds are settling in for the night down by the river. I just saw two white eared honeyeaters chasing a red wattlebird. They were flashing and ducking and weaving through the branches of the trees. We’re having leaf races down in the river. The river is now very narrow and it’s going under the […]

Tonight the air feels cool at the oval. It is still and it feels like there might be a frost overnight.

It’s the most magical day down at the river with all kinds of little tiny birds singing and flitting through the trees. The water is gently gurgling away. Even the fallen leaves in the river seem to be dancing around in the current, spinning in the eddies and flowing away. There’s something in the air […]

The stillness of sunset. Sitting out here, the stillness brings me to that place where I’m just so present.

There’s a cool breeze blowing down the river today. It’s incredibly peaceful at the Big Old Tree. There’s some fishing line tangled in one of the lower branches over the river. A long piece is hanging down and blowing gently in the breeze. Sometimes when I sit still, it’s like I can suddenly feel so […]

I love sitting on this bench. Today I feel a little bit sad though. Maybe it’s because it was a long weekend here but now the weekend’s over. I still have more of my projects and creative endeavors that I want to do. Or maybe I’m feeling a bit sad because summer is coming to […]

I haven’t been past this bench in years. I used to come to the beach here a lot, but I never sat on the bench on the clifftop above. Today could be one of the last hot days of this summer. It’s low tide and I’m looking forward to snorkelling in the rocks pools below.

We’re just having a freak summer storm. All around us on the horizon the sky is blue, it’s been a sunny day. But right over us is this cloud and it’s pouring rain on us. It’s sunset and the corellas are flying around before they roost for the night. It smells like rain after a […]

I love sitting out here in the sun. It’s really quite windy today but my back deck is warm and calm and lovely. The grass is very green today. It looks so lush in the sunshine. I am sitting out here daydreaming about projects I want to do, things I want to build and create. […]