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Post #150 Thursday 7 January 2021 – New Year

January 6, 2021 by MG

Posted in: Adventure, Coast, Country, Sky, Thank you, Travel, Video, Wellbeing

Thursday 7 January 2021

Dear friends, Thanks so much for the lovely gifts and the good wishes over Christmas New Year.
It’s been beautiful here in the country with waves of different coloured wildflowers from one week to the next, following on from so much rain. I’ve never seen it so lovely.
A close relative died before Christmas and it’s been a very sad time. Even when you have known someone is dying for a long time there seems to be no accounting for the level of emotion when that time actually arrives. Also some family members are more evolved than others and each can be playing out their own unresolved drama so right at a time that sensitivity would be the right thing, there isn’t any. I have to say I’ve found it all very difficult and it’s taking me a while to recover.
My plan has been to visit for the short week after Australia day, which would be Wednesday 27 January to Sunday 31 January 2021. I’m very wary of the developments with the virus though. I cannot understand how the the crowds can be allowed to go to the cricket today. And I do not understand why the vaccines are not approved and issued now. So can we agree I’m planning to come but it might have to be postponed? Absolutely none of us wants to get the virus!

On a happier note, I had the loveliest visit to Wollongong in December. The storms have been so dramatic in recent times and that day was no exception. Here is a clip from the beach in the evening. This panning shot up into an intensely coloured sky really reminds me of the cinematography in an Australian film called My First Wife. I saw the film years ago late one night on SBS, maybe someone else will remember it too. The sky above the beach was very colour saturated and stormy and the fast scanning movement of the camera evoked the main character’s searching. It was beautifully done, with wheeling gulls (like this clip), and an intense choral music sound track (the main character was a music teacher). This clip is much more peaceful though, like my state of mind when I was down there with all the waves surging up onto the sand and round me :-).

xx MG


Post #124 Tuesday 18 February 2020 – after the fires: floods… and frogs

February 17, 2020 by MG Leave a Comment

Posted in: Animals, Country, Letters from America, Video, Wildlife

Letters from America

Tuesday 18 February 2020

Following on from my recent sad post about the NSW fires, here is an update. January 2020 drought:

February 2020, rain:

I have never seen so much water in the weir. We had more than 400mm rain in about a week. Should we be standing by for the pestilence now?

This is the new roaring sound a paddock makes :-):

Flooded paddock, with rushing sheets of water coming from two directions.

And we had a welcome expression of joy from the local RFS:

Rain rain rain!

And comparable expressions of joy from the frogs:

xx MG, so grateful for the rain.

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