winter “down under”

lazy afternoon
watching the birds on the feeder
(“Wallie”, the magpie who used to come to the kitchen window has found himself his first girlfriend and doesn’t think hand feeding is cool any more, at least not when she is looking :-))

last days of filling the potbelly stove (an art in itself)
the smell of wood fires
and having coal on my fingers
(made sketches of birds, and the vegi patch: so far… beet-root, turnips, beans, corn, brokoli, chilies, cilantro )

under the mango tree
the first smell of summer (tropical, moist air)
neighbor’s tulips finish flowering
dreaming
of far away
lands