Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Light rain

Light and heavy falls have visited for the past 10 days. It is cool - 11, 13, 14 C. Very unlike February, and very like seasonal change. I wonder. All has gone from bush fire edge to soggy ground. Mud wasps have disappeared, Gang-Gang cockatoos are conspicuously silent in their recent absence, and close-up bird life very subdued. I have returned the horse to our neighbour; the tall flowering grasses have been grazed and wettened beyond house threat. The news from the north is of controlling mildew after weeks of monsoonal rain.